Reed Adalbert Albee (8 September 1885 – 2 August 1961) was an American businessman. He was the adoptive father of the playwright

Edward Albee Edward Franklin Albee III ( ; March 12, 1928 – September 16, 2016) was an American playwright known for works such as ''The Zoo Story'' (1958), ''The Sandbox (play), The Sandbox'' (1959), ''Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'' (1962), ''A Delicat ...

and a member of a prominent East Coast family who owned several theaters.

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Albee was born on 8 September 1885 in

Boston, Massachusetts Boston is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. The city serves as the cultural and Financial centre, financial center of New England, a region of the Northeas ...

, the son of Laurette Frances Albee (née Smith) and

Edward Franklin Albee II Edward Franklin Albee II (October 8, 1857 – March 11, 1930) was an American vaudeville impresario. Early life Albee was born on October 8, 1857, in Machias, Maine, to Nathaniel Smith Albee and Amanda Higgins Crocker. Career He toured with P ...

. He had a younger sister, Ethel, who was born in 1890. Albee married Louise Holmes Williams, an actress, on 10 June 1914. They were divorced on 26 February 1925. On 7 March 1925, Albee married Frances Cotter in

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. She worked at Jay Thorpe, Inc. at 24 West Fifty-seventh Street in

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. They moved to

Larchmont, New York Larchmont is a Village (New York), village located within the Town (New York), Town of Mamaroneck (town), New York, Mamaroneck in Westchester County, New York. Larchmont is a suburb of New York City, located approximately northeast of Midt ...

and adopted a son, whom they named Edward Franklin Albee III (1928-2016). Albee died in Larchmont on August 2, 1961.

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