Pope, Albert A
soldier, manufacturer, was born May 20, 1843, in Boston, Mass. He served as a soldier during the civil war; was promoted to lieutenantcolonel. The Pope Manufacturing company, for which Colonel Pope supplied the capital, and of which he has from the outset been president and active manager, was organized early in 1877 for the marketing of small patented articles. The same year he visited England, and placed an order for an importation of English bicycles. The first bicycles were manufactured in the United States in 1878 by the Weed Sewing Machine company of Hartford, Conn. They were soon controlled and finally bought out by Colonel Pope. He has built up a large business, employing a capital of over two millions of dollars, utilizing four factories at Hartford, Conn.