History of Kentucky, five volumes, edited by Judge Charles Kerr, American Historical Society, New York & Chicago, 1922, Vol. IV, p. 107, Bourbon Co. WILLIAM M. WRIGHT is one of the men much to be envied in the degree of prosperity that has attended his efforts in the famous Blue Grass region of Bourbon County. He is proprietor of the Lone Oak Farm, situated on the Millersburg and Cynthiana Pike, four miles northwest of Millersburg. Mr. Wright, it is said on reliable authority, had only $200 in capital when he came to Kentucky thirty-five years ago and with the aid of his good wife has been the builder and architect of his good fortune. He was born in old Virginia, February 20, 1859 but grew up in West Virginia. His parents were Joseph A. and Martha J. (Peebles) Wright, the former a native of Nelson County, Virginia and the latter of Greenbrier County, West Virginia. Joseph Wright was a graduate of the University of Virginia, an ordained Baptist minister, and for many years practically until the close of his life, he was engaged in his ministerial labors in West Virginia. Of his eleven children five are still living: D. S. Wright, of Tampa, Florida; F. A. Wright of Norfolk, Virginia; William M.; Sarah S., wife of Charles Hanger; and Maggie, wife of Adam Lutz, of Memphis, Tennessee. William M. Wright grew up in West Virginia, had a public school education, and when he came to Kentucky in 1885, he found employment as a farm laborer in Bourbon County. In September, 1888, he married Miss Hettie M. Pollock, who was born in Bourbon County in July, 1860, and was prior to her marriage a successful and popular teacher in the county, being a graduate of the Millersburg Female College. Her parents were William and Virginia C. (McConnell) Pollock. Mr. and Mrs. Wright after their marriage rented a farm in Bourbon County and lived at several places for a dozen years or more. In 1901 they were so far advanced toward the goal of their ambition as to purchase eighty acres, and with this as a nucleus they have extended their holdings until the Lone Oak Farm now comprises 368 acres. It is a general purpose farm, but has some first class livestock, and Mr. Wright has had much success in breeding Southdown sheep. He is a deacon in the Baptist Church and Mrs. Wright is a Presbyterian. In politics he is a democrat. Hanger Lutz Pollock McConnell Wright = Nelson-VA Greenbriar-WV FL Shelby-TN http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/bourbon/wright.wm.txt