Career
Albee was born on 8 September 1885 in Boston, Massachusetts to Edward Franklin Albee II and Laurette Frances Albee (née Smith). He had a younger sister, Ethel, who was born in 1890. Albee married Louise Holmes Williams, an actress, on 10 June 1914.
On 7 March 1925, Albee married Frances Cotter in Jersey City, New Jersey.
She worked at Jay Thorpe, Incorporated. at 24 West Fifty-seventh Street in Manhattan. They moved to Larchmont, New York and adopted a son, whom they named Edward Franklin Albee III (since 1928).
He died in Larchmont.