Source: Rowland, Dunbar, ed. Mississippi: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form. Atlanta: Southern Historical Publishing, 1907. Vol. III, pp. 605-06
Noble, Albert William, editor and publisher of the Laurel Chronicle, at Laurel, is to be noted as one of the representative young newspaper men of the State, and is meeting with marked success in his present field, his paper being the leading paper of Jones county. Mr. Noble was born in Birmingham, Jefferson county, Ala., on April 5, 1874, being a son of Robert P. and Helen D. (Love) Noble, both of whom were born in Sumter county, that State. Albert W. Noble is a direct descendant from the Noble and Calhoun families which were established on American soil in the early colonial era, both names having been prominent in the annals of the nation. One of his great-grandfathers in the maternal line was named Savage and was born and lived in Ireland, and there killed an Englishman who had presumptuously cut and removed a green sash from Savage's sister,—the act being an insult to the country as well as the woman in the case. Capt. Stephen Noble, paternal grandfather of Albert W., was an active participant in the War of 1812. At the time of the Civil war, Robert P. Noble espoused with all of devotion the cause of the Confederacy, becoming a member of the Third Arkansas infantry and taking part in all of the engagements of the Army of Northern Virginia, under Gen. Robert E. Lee. For some time he had charge of the commissary department of his command, and he continued in service until the close of the war. Albert W. Noble was educated in a well equipped private military school at Livingston, Ala., in which town he gained his initial experience in connection with the newspaper and printing business, becoming "devil" in the office of the Livingston Journal and there gaining an excellent knowledge of the "art preservative of all arts." After one year he established the Marengo Democrat, at Linden, Ala., being nineteen years of age at the time, and in 1896 he assumed charge of the Jasper County Review, at Paulding, Miss., where he remained until October of 1901, when he came to Laurel and purchased the Chronicle, of which he has since been editor and publisher and which he has made the leading paper of the county, although it is not published in the county seat. He has a well equipped plant, his facilities for the handling of job work being adequate to all demands, and the paper which he publishes is a true exponent of local interests and is thus given an appreciative support in the county. In politics Mr. Noble is a stanch supporter of the principles of the Democracy, whose cause he advocates both personally and through the columns of his paper. He is a member of the Mississippi Press association, is a Royal Arch Mason, a member of the Woodmen of the World and other fraternal orders. June 29, 1899, witnessed the marriage of Mr. Noble to Miss Leila Cope, daughter of Sidney and Sinie (Smith) Cope, of Washington county, Ala., and two children are the offspring of this union: Albert Sidney, born August 29, 1900; and Leila, born Dec. 22, 1902. Mrs. Noble died on Oct. 27, 1905.