Transcription contributed by Martie Callihan 23 January 2005

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LOT WRIGHT, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, Lebanon, was born near the village of New Garden, Columbiana Co., Ohio, Feb. 16, 1839; his parents were James and Mary (Hinchman) Wright, natives, the former of Ohio and the latter of New Jersey. The ancestral lineage on the father's side was English, and that on the mother's side German. Our subject's early life was passed upon a farm. At the age of 16 years, he went to the State of Iowa and there remained four years, when he returned to Columbiana County. His primary education was received in the common schools of the vicinity in which he was raised and solely through his own efforts. In 1860, he came to Lebanon and entered the Southwestern Normal School, which he attended, teaching at intervals in the district schools of Southwestern Ohio, until the summer of 1862. Aug. 13 of that year, he enlisted as a private in Company I, 79th O. V. I. On the 28th of June, 1864, he was discharged, having up to that time, and just prior thereto, taken part with Sherman's army in the battles from Chattanooga to Atlanta, and was severely wounded June 22, 1864. He was commissioned as Captain in the 100th U. S. C. I., taking command of Company D, at Nashville, Tenn., June 28, 1864, and was almost immediately thereafter taken to the hospital on account of the wound, where he remained two months, then assumed command of his company, which, with the balance of the regiment, was assigned to duty on the Northwestern Railroad, and soon thereafter he was placed in command of two companies of the regiment. He went into the country, seized stock from the enemy, and mounted these companies, which performed services as mounted infantry until the battle of Nashville, in which he commanded his company during the two days' fight, and was again seriously wounded about the close of the battle. After recovering from the wound, he was detailed as a member of the military commission in the department of the Cumberland, and there remained about three months, when he again assumed command of his company, with which be continued until the close of the war, when he returned to Lebanon, which has since been his home. On the 17th of July, 1867, Capt. Wright was united in marriage with Louisa Jury, a native of Ohio, whom he met while attending the normal school. Both the Captain and wife are graduates of this school. Mrs. Wright taught school in Warren County four years, one of which she was Principal of the Public Schools of Lebanon. In 1868, Capt. Wright was elected Treasurer of Warren County, to which office he was re-elected in 1870. Subsequent thereto he has been three times elected Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the county. Mr. and Mrs. Wright are the parents of two sons—Willard J. and Raymond G. The parents are members of the First Presbyterian Church of Lebanon.