James S. Albin James S. Albin, who is engaged in the clothing business in Fort Smith, his well-appointed establishment being one of the leading mercantile enterprises of the city, has come to Arkansas from the neighboring state of Kansas. His birth occurred in Warrensburg, Johnson county, Missouri, in the year 1870, his parents being I. D. and Ruth (Clarke) Albin. The father was an inventor of note, who produced a number of valuable devices, one of his early inventions being a horsepower threshing outfit. James S. Albin spent a portion of his youth in Missouri and was educated in the schools of that state and of the Sunflower state. In early manhood he took up the study of osteopathy in Missouri and practiced along that line for a number of years. He has been a resident of Arkansas since 1899 and at one time served as postmaster of Toledo, Kansas, being at the time the youngest postmaster in the state, having barely attained his majority when he was appointed to the position. He continued to fill the office for five years, discharging the duties of the position with promptness and fidelity. For twenty-one years he has lived in Fort Smith and during fourteen years of this period has conducted a retail clothing and shoe business, catering to the popular price trade. Mr. Albin was united in marriage to Miss Emma Baird, of Mansfield, Arkansas, and they have become parents of four children. Mr. Albin is truly a self-made man and whatever success he has achieved and enjoyed in life is attributable entirely to his own labors.