Introduction

Biography

Noah was the son of Sam­uel Al­baugh and An­na Rod­key, and hus­band of Lu­cin­da Bee­son.

He taught school 1851–54, ex­cept one sum­mer when he ed­it­ed the Day­ton Dai­ly Ci­ty Item news­pa­per. By 1858, he was in the nur­se­ry bu­si­ness, even­tu­al­ly found­ing the Al­baugh Nur­se­ry & Or­chard Com­pa­ny, with lo­ca­tions in Ohio; Car­mi, Il­li­nois; Bur­ling­ton, Kan­sas; and Spar­ta, Wis­con­sin.

In the Am­eri­can ci­vil war, Al­baugh served in Com­pa­ny B, 147th Ohio Vol­un­teer In­fan­try. His un­it par­ti­ci­pat­ed in re­pel­ling the at­tack on Wash­ing­ton, DC, by Con­fed­er­ate forc­es un­der Lieu­ten­ant Ge­ne­ral Ju­bal Ear­ly.

After leav­ing the ar­my, Al­baugh was on the lo­cal Board of Edu­ca­tion for 17 years, was a school ex­am­in­er for a 10 years, a jus­tice of the peace for nine, twice pre­si­dent of the Am­eri­can As­so­cia­tion of Flor­ists & Nur­se­ry­men, and pre­si­dent of the Nurs­er­ymen’s Mu­tu­al Pro­tec­tive As­so­cia­tion.

In 1885, Al­baugh was elect­ed to the Ohio le­gis­la­ture, and while there was al­so pre­si­dent of the Troy Na­tion­al Bank. In 1892, he was one of Ohio’s pre­si­den­tial elec­tors on the Re­pub­li­can tick­et.

On the spir­it­ual side, Al­baugh was an el­der at the Beth­el Re­formed church for 30 years, and su­per­in­tend­ent of the church’s Sun­day school for 14 years.

Works

• Wayside Blos­soms (Day­ton, Ohio: Gro­ne­weg Bro­thers, 1885)