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| date_of_birth =[[August 30]], [[1852]]
| place_of_birth =Pensacola
| date_of_death =[[1920]]
| place_of_death =Pensacola
| occupation =Businessman
| children =Stella C. Avery<br/>Albert Miner Avery, Jr.<br/>Catherine G. Avery<br/>A. Marion Avery<br/>Preston S. Avery<br/>Two others
}}
'''Albert Miner Avery''' ([[1852]]-[[1920]]) was a Pensacolian businessman known primarily for his engagement in th the hardware business.
Avery was born in Pensacola on [[August 30]], [[1852]]. His father, [[Albert Lord Avery]], had first come to [[Escambia County]] in [[1833]]. Albert Miner Avery was educated in the local schools in Pensacola and later attended [[Wikipedia:Sewanee: The University of the South|University of the South]] in Tennessee, but did not earn a degree.
In [[1876]] he joined his father's wholesale hardware firm, which became ''A. L. and A. M. Avery''. This firm, which his father had started and he would continue, was the predecessor to what would become, in [[1921]], the [[Pensacola Hardware|Pensacola Hardware Company]], which is still extant today. At some point the elder Avery retired, and A. M. Avery took as a partner a Mr. Woolfolk, and the firm was hence known as ''Avery and Woolfolk'', until the year [[1889]], in which Mr. Woolfolk retired. Avery was henceforth the sole proprietor. In [[1906]] he organised the [[Avery Hardware & Supply Company]], of which he was president, to manage the business.
A. M. Avery married May Clara Grant in February [[1878]].<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=yDo6VhLx6fEC ''Makers of America: An Historical and Biographical Work by an Able Corps of Writers'']. Jacksonville, FL Historical Society (1909).</ref>Avery served as a [[Pensacola aldermen|city alderman]] for several years. He was also president of the [[Mutual Building & Loan]] and director of the [[American National Bank]]. He died in [[1920]].
[[Avery Street]] is named for A. M. Avery.
