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Albert Grant Sine
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Albert Grant Sine
BIRTH 9 Jun 1866
DEATH 6 Jul 1931 (aged 65)
BURIAL Mount Olivet Cemetery
Parkersburg, Wood County, West Virginia, USA
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Albert Grant Sine, committed suicide July 6, 1931 at the age of 63 He was the founder of Mountain State Business College, Parkersburg, WV.
Source: " Chronicles of Core" Page 154

Albert Grant Sine, Mountain State Business College, Parkersburg, WV.

There are some men who are very hard to "write up". If you state truthfully what they are and what they have accomplished you will be charged with making extravagant statements for unmerited descriptions, Well, for that very reason I find Mr. Sine hard to "write up".

I have known him for many years. I have been in his school quite a number of times. I know the class of students he turns out. I use to know nearly every member of his faculty. Of course I formed a high personal regard for him, and so does everyone that comes in contact with his genial good nature and observes his facility in the transaction of business and knows of the high standards he maintains in his various enterprises, because he is not limited to his school in his activities by any means. But his school is the child of his own creation and naturally perhaps his greatest pride and joy comes to him when he is sitting in his college office, overseeing with great care as he does the daily operations of his big school and of the various students who are in attendance, because he is fundamentally a school man. I have no permission from him to even mention the other large interest he has, some of them extending throughout the entire State in which he resides. That is why the courses show the touch of the business man who is behind them.
There is no using of entering into a description of his school further than to say that it is a model institution in equipment, in arrangement, in the standard of its courses of study, and the high degree of efficiency that is seen everywhere as one passes through "the works". He draws his patronage from a very extensive section of country, consequently his school is made up almost exclusively of more mature class of students that is found in schools in larger cities. The number of his students however far exceed those usually found in big city schools.

Yes, Mr. Sine is my personal friend. He knows how to make a friend and keep him. All his students are his friends and his faculty is devoted to him and he is devoted to them and his students, and there you are, a great big successful school that anyone should be proud to conduct. He puts out some of the finest literature ever issued from any school, public or private, and if I wanted to employ trained office help I am disposed to think I would have to go not further than to make a selection from any recent list of graduates he might submit.

Source -"The BUDGET"--The House Paper of the H. M. Rowe Company, September 1925,
Editorial by H. M. R.

Albert Grant Sine it seems had a good idea in 1888. That year he founded the first institution of higher learning in Parkersburg,--Mountain State Business College. The college, which down through the years has survived two disastrous fires, the Great Depression and three moves, celebrated its centennial anniversary in 1988.

Albert Grant Sine came to Parkersburg, WV from Fairview, WV in 1886 at the age of 20. Two years later he founded the school in a building near Court Square. Despite an original enrollment of only two, the school caught on in popularity and Mr. Sine became on of the most admired business college educators in the state and in the Ohio Valley.

According to his obituary, Sines, school had a reputation as one of the best business schools in West Virginia. historian Bernard Allen of WVU and the author of Parkersburg, A Bicentennial History said: On march 16, 1893 Sine Albert Sine married Mattie Timms of Parkersburg, WV. They stayed married until Mrs. Sine's death in 1924.

In addition to the business school, Sine dabbled in real-estate and also started the Imperial Ice Cream Company. The ice cream company was located in the Opera house Block on Market Street, adjacent to the old Camden Theater entrance. He sold his interest in the company in 1923 to devote all his time to Mountain State. Fire, a plague that would continually haunt Sine and eventually contribute to his death in 1931 at the age of 63, damaged the first school building. he then removed to the Camden Square on Market Street, between 7th and 8th streets, approximately where the Department of Welfare office is now located. The move brought rapid growth to the school, but also ushered in an era of turmoil for Sine. According to a brochure prepared for the college's centennial, the era of 1914 began with great promise, but also with question marks. In Europe, war clouds were beginning to gather, reaching the U. S. In 1917.

The exodus of male students to the ranks of soldier deprived Sine of his main source of students, but offered opportunities for women in the work force. According to the brochure, Sine soon took advantage of this. A college poster from the time shoes a group of men lining up at the local draft board. Meanwhile, the same poster says: "These men are leaving offices--who will take their places?" It shows women lining up to enter the college.

From this time on, women would always be included on the college's roles. With the growth of the women's movement following World War I, and in addition to returning veterans, Sine saw the school's enrollment grow during the 1920's to nearly 700 students.

The stock market crash in October 1929 drastically reduced the rolls and if that weren't enough 31 days later on Nov 30, 1929 the worse fire in Parkersburg's history totally destroyed the school. The fire began in the Camden Theater and eventually spread to the entire block, gutting the schools building and completely destroying all records and transcripts.

Sine then bought a three-story structure know as the Cox building on Spring and Sixteenth streets, where the school currently stands. It was owned by Metropolitan Life Insurance Company of New York.

A note to his students at this time said, "Just a line to tell you that everything is moving along nicely here, preparatory to the re-opening of the Old school and we will be functioning in fine shape the first of the New Year.

Source: Albert Grant Sine, by Larry Cox, Sentinel Reporter

bio provided by Sylvia Sine Whittaker (#47119342)

Family Members
Parents

Milton Sine
1828-1879

Elizabeth Sellzer Sine
1826-1903

Spouse

Martha Diane "Mattie" Timms Sine
1865-1924

Siblings

Permelia Sine
1851-1863

George L Sine
1853-1923

Waitman W. Sine
1855-1887

Alpheus Sine
1857-1863

Benjamin F. Sine
1858-1936

Sarah Lynn Sine Caton
1862-1936

John Ellsworth R. Sine Sr
1865-1925

Infant Sine
1868-1868

Andros Tennant Sine
1870-1911

Children

Edith R. Sine
1896-1906

Vera Marjorie Sine King
1899-1978

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