WRIGHT

DR. F. D. WRIGHT

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Dr. F. D. WRIGHT was born in Lawrence County, Mo., October 22, 1856, and is a son of William and Martha (BRITE) WRIGHT, who were born in Tennessee and Kentucky, respectively. The mother was a daughter of George BRITE, one of the pioneers of Missouri, and she and Mr. Wright became the parents of eight children. Dr. F. D. Wright is their second son and child, and was reared and educated in Lawrence County, Mo. He followed pedagogueing in early life, and at the early age of fifteen began his medical studies. He attended St. Louis Medical College (then Pope's Medical College) and also Rush Medical College, graduating from the latter in the class of 1862. He has since practiced his profession in his native county, and has met with well deserved success. He takes especial interest in surgery, and keeps well posted in the medical literature of the day. He is a member of the Southwest Missouri Medical Society and of the American Medical Association, being secretary of the former. The Doctor is local surgeon of the 'Frisco Road. January 9, 1884, in the city of St. Louis, he was married to Miss Laura MANN, who was born in Illinois. Her parents moved to St. Louis when she was a child, and here she received her education, and was married at the age of twenty years.

HENRY WILSON WRIGHT

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Henry Wilson WRIGHT, editor of the Verona Independent, is a native of Indiana, born in Owen County April 18, 1847, and is the son of Abram and Ellen (GARDNER) WRIGHT, natives of New York and Kentucky, respectively. The Wrights trace their ancestry back to an early settlement of this family in New York State. The Gardners were of old Kentucky stock. Henry Wilson Wright was reared in Southern Indiana, and after attaining his majority was ordained an elder in the Methodist Episcopal Church, serving it as traveling minister for about nine years. His father was also a traveling minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. H. W. Wright afterward went to Iowa and located at Seymour, where he edited the Seymour Enterprise in an able and efficient manner for one year. He then edited the West Point Post, at West Point, for four years, and in 1884 he moved to Lawrence County, Mo., where he established his present journal, which he has ably conducted to the present time. He is president of the board of public instruction for Verona, and is now serving his third term. During the late unpleasantness between the North and South he served for three years in Company C. Ninety-first Indiana Volunteer Infantry, Union army, and served in all the important campaigns of Sherman's and Thomas' army. He was married in New Philadelphia, Ind., to Miss Mary T. TAYLOR, daughter of Isaac N. and Mary (MARTIN) TAYLOR, both natives of Indiana. To Mr. and Mrs. Wright were born five children, two sons and three daughters: Edith B., Arthur, Laura, Watson and Mary. Mr. Wright is a member of the Masonic fraternity and J. M. Baird Post, G. A. R.


From "A Reprint of Goodspeed's 1888 History of Lawrence County; Reprint Lawrence County Section of Goodspeed's Newton, Lawrence, Barry And McDonald Counties History; published by the Goodspeed Publishing Co., in 1888; Reprinted by Litho Printers Of Cassville, Missouri In 1973." as transcribed by JJR.

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