Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-04-13
ALBERT SERGEANT
WILL Be 81 MONDAY
Former Business Man Still Ac-
tive Despite Weight OF
Many Years.


Aiiributing his unusual span OF
life 10 the goodness Of the Lord md
his own carcfulness In satisfying an
always healthy appetite. Albert Ser
geant, one OF the citys Oldest resi-
dents and retired business man, on
Monday viii celebrate his S7th birth
day anniyersary AZ his home, 7l9
! East Seventh street. He Ii In fun
posscrsion OF all his faculties. with
n mind apparently as keen an that OF
an intelligent and well educated man
many years HIS junior and his only
serious defect, suffered as a result
~ the inirmitles on advanced nge. II
his hearing. with which he ~ now
having some difiicui,y.
| Gwen up az dead on more than one
occasion and several times informed
| Wy snm. OF the couutry's greatest
specialists that he had bat n short
time 90 i've. Mr. Sergeant has sur
vived by many years all those ply
aiciane who told him he vas practi-
lcaily a. good ne dead and yesterday.
as he sat IN his home and talked 90
Every Evenings representative. ne
]
vas destined % live for sumo years
90 come. for his many years rest
Comparatively lightly up0n his shout
defs and he Is unusually active
Mr. Sergeant. perhaps. VIII De re-
lmombered by the residents ~ this
lefty as a former coal merchant. pre-
cnsiing his son. the late N T. fer
gea Mt. who died suddenly some years
lago he n also the grandfather -
Jonathan ~. Brown. Al present sec-
lrotary 90 United states Senator r
coleman du Pont and formerly sec-
rotary % senator willard Saulsbury.
Mr. Sergeant war born on April II.
1895, IN Delaware county, Pa. He was
reared on 81 farm and al the ago ~
In years he vent 20 Philadelphia.
! whero ne learned tho trade 81 ship
smith ~ the outbreak OF the war
between the North and the South he
enlisted IN Company y. Sixth Mary
land Regiment. and during the bat
tic ~ tho Wilderness he sustained A
wound the effects 81 which ne car
ries 20 this day A shot tore through
hls left hand. severlng the ligaments
and Gripping It permanently. making
the fingers stir and crooked. 40 that
the hand has never since then beer
Of much assistance to him.
After he left the army he went u
, Maryland and in 1872 came 10 WI
, mington and has made his home here
ever since. He started In the grocery
business at Taylor and Buttonwooc
streets and about 1880 ne established
3 himself in the coal business at l0'
Maryland avenue. Some time afte
n this Mr.. Sergea nt's health failed hin
g and In 1902 he decided TO give up tn
active management and turn the busi
: ness over TO his son, II. T. Sergeant
p who continued to manage IL for sew
eral years after that.
Mr. Sergeant has always been a re
u ligious man and he had affiliated him
self with the Free Methodist Churc
a. a local preacher. After quittin
!, his active business career here
took up evangelistic work and trave
- ed and prea ched through the west, Q.
: pecially in Ohio and Indiana. He r.
:, turned TO Maryland and continue
: this religious work there. Finally h
a. retire from this active life and he
now living retired, quietly and peace
fully at the above address.
Several years ago his heart starts
TO give him trouble and he consulte
some OF the best specialists in this lir
Il OF the medical science in Philadelphi
They all gave him up as practical
incurable and on the verge of death. Il
only difference of opinion among thei
being the length of time he could liv
vive for more than year. Mr.. Sc
er None Of them thought he would su
IL geant is still living and some of tho
IN physicians have passed on
&c The heart trouble. however. Is st
o. with him. He suffers from seve
er attacks now and for this reason
as does not go out very much, althous
nd he is active enough about the nous
rs Sometimes he takes a short walk al
e on occasions when he is feeling e
ns pecislly good he goes into the ma
TO ket 20 do the buying for himself al
those who care for him. Only la
at week. while out walking, he fell "a
OF conscious in the street from a hea
es attack. He said yesterday his hea
troubled him and there was eviden
ne OF some petulance al having TO ma
~ this admission
" Mr.. Sergeants sight is good and
~, spends much time In reading. /
'N said he has been a constant reader
Every Evening for many years a
he is always anxious TO get this new
paper. so he may keep himself I
formed on local. state and nation
''' topics. His mind. still keen and Gle,
retains all OF its old vigor and he co