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

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

Manhattan Manhattan (), known regionally as the City, is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City. The borough is also coextensive with New York County, one of the original counties of the U.S. state ...

. They moved to

Larchmont, New York Larchmont is a village located within the Town of Mamaroneck in Westchester County, New York, approximately northeast of Midtown Manhattan. The population of the village was 5,864 at the 2010 census. In February 2019, Bloomberg ranked Lar ...

and adopted a son, whom they named

Edward Franklin Albee III 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'' (1959), ''Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'' (1962), '' A Delicate Balance'' (1966) ...

(1928-2016). Albee died in Larchmont on August 2, 1961.

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1885 births 1961 deaths Vaudeville producers Businesspeople from Boston 20th-century American businesspeople {{theat-bio-stub

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