Pope, Albert Augustus
(20 May 1843–10 August 1909)
- Ballard C. Campbell
Extract
Pope, Albert Augustus (20 May 1843–10 August 1909), manufacturer, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Charles Pope, a merchant, and Elizabeth Bogman. Maintaining his New England roots, Pope made Boston and its environs his residence during a lifetime in which his business interests were scattered in numerous northeastern and midwestern states. He attended school in the suburb of Brookline until age fifteen, when family financial misfortune forced his full-time employment, first in the Quincy Market in downtown Boston and then as a clerk in a shoefinding store (supplying shoe manufacturing materials)....
