Albert F. Richey (1848-1922) was born in Greene County, Pennsylvania, and
died in Ogden, Utah. Sometime before 1870 he moved to Washington, Iowa, where he worked
as a store clerk and married Mary E. Richey (b. Todhunter) in 1877. The Richeys moved to
Cheyenne, Wyoming, by 1880, where Albert was the secretary of the Wyoming Hereford
Association. In the mid-1880s Mary studied Christian Science with Jennie B. Fenn, a
student of Mary Baker Eddy's, and in 1887 and 1888 was listed as a practitioner in
Cheyenne in The Christian Science Journal. The Richeys then moved to Ogden, Utah, where
Albert went into the undertaking business with his brother and was also the secretary of
the Mountain View Cemetery Association. Mary died in 1891, and in 1896 Albert married
Catherine M. Richey (b. Warwick) in Ogden. In 1886 Richey wrote to Silas J. Sawyer, a
student of Eddy's, to follow up on an order Mary E. Richey had placed for copies of
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.
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