Biographical sketch extracted from:

Biographical and historical record of Adams and Wells counties, Indiana. Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co., 1887. p. 857-858.

ALBERT OPPENHEIM, agent for the American Express Company and operator in charge of the Western Union Telegraph office at Bluffton, is a native of that city, born October 8, 1855, a son of Sigmund and Mary J. (Niblick) OPPENHEIM. His father being a merchant his youth when not in school was spent in the store. When fifteen years old he began to learn the printer’s trade in the office of the Bluffton Banner, at which he worked three years, when he began to take instructions in telegraphy in the railway telegraph office of the Fort Wayne, Muncie & Cincinnati Company, at Bluffton, and since May, 1882, has been local manager of the Western Union office. From 1881 till 1885 he was associated with his father in the manufacture of cigars, and in 1887 was appointed agent for the American Express Company. Mr. Oppenheim was married in 1876 to Miss Alice O. Davis, a daughter of Jared and Elizabeth Davis, of Cincinnati. They have two children— Blanche and Ethel. Mrs. Oppenheim is a member of the Universalist church. Mr. Oppenheim is a member of the Masonic fraternity, lodge and chapter, and the Knights of Pythias and Knights of Honor.