Cyrus B. Albright was born on October 28, 1850, in Pennsylvania to William Albright and Catherine Garman. His father was a farmer who owned $560 of real estate and $75 of personal property by 1860. The family moved to Mottville, Michigan, in the 1850s, and then to Porter, Michigan, in the 1860s. By 1870, he was working as a farmer. He married Anna Morton on October 29, 1882, and he died on August 17, 1886.