Albert I. Drayton was born in Jersey City on the 14th of August, 1869. He received his preparatory education in the various public and private grammar schools of that city and at the Jersey City High School, and subsequently entered the New York University, from which he was graduated with the class of 1888. Determining upon the law as his profession, he was a law student from 1888 to 1891, and in the meantime took a course of lectures at the Columbia Law School. He was admitted to the bar of New Jersey as attorney in November, 1891, and as a counselor February, 1895, and ever since his admission as an attorney has been actively and successfully engaged in the practice of law in his native city. In the many cases in which he has been identified in all the courts of the State he has displayed marked ability, sound judgment, and broad and accurate learning, and, although a young man, he has gained a leading position at the Hudson County bar. His legal connections with important real estate natters led him finally into a close study of that subject, and as President and General Manager of the New Jersey Title and Abstract Company of Jersey City he is widely known and an acknowledged authority on land titles.

He is also an officer in various other corporations, being President of the Jersey City Golf Club, first Vice-President of the Alumni Association of Gamma Chapter of Delta Phi, a member of the Delta Phi fraternity, and a member of the Cosmos Club, of the Jersey City Chess Club, of the New Jersey State Bar Association, of the Hudson County Bar Association, of the Nyack Country Club, of the Deal Golf Club, of the New York University Alumni Association, and of St. John's Episcopal Church of Jersey City.