Pope (Albert) is born in Brighton.

Albert Pope grows up in Brookline, serves in the Civil War, returns to Boston, and lives on Washington Street. Introduced to the bicycle by Englishman John Harrington in the summer of 1877, he subsequently buys up a number of patents and contracts with a Hartford sewing machine company to begin a model he calls Columbia. Pope opens a store, office, and riding school at 597 Washington Street in by the early 1880s, goes on to manufacture thousands of bicycles, popularize them both for transportation and sport, and comes to be called the “Father of the American Bicycle,” and He dies in Cohasset on August 10, 1909.