WRIGHT, LOREN WEIR, who is extensively engaged in farming and stockraising in Cass County, resides on section 30, township 18, range 8, and is one of the representative men of is locality. He was born in Cass County, December 8, 1882, a son of John Solomon and Anna Norvella (Carter) Wright, the former born May 2, 1852, and the latter June 29, 1862, both natives of Cass County. They were married by Rev. James Garner. Mrs. Wright was the daughter of Fletcher and Sarah (Howard) Carver, both now deceased, the latter having died December 8, 1904, and the former, July 8, 1914, both being buried in the Garner cemetery. The father of Loren Weir Wright was a very thrifty man and was well known, as he bought stock all over the county, and in all his transactions gained the name of being very honest and upright in his dealings. He began his stock operations with no capital but his industry, but when he died, January 13, 1905, he left an estate of 234 acres of land, in addition to stock, one-half of his possessions going to his son and the other half to his widow. His burial was in the Garner cemetery.

Loren Weir Wright attended the country schools and the Virginia High school, following which, the Jacksonville schools, and then went to a college at Springfield, Mo. During all this period he worked in a printing office in his vacations, and then adopted his present line of work for his vocation of life. In addition to his own 117 acres of land, he conducts his mother's 117 acres, and his operations therefore are upon a large scale.

On August 17, 1913, Mr. Wright was married by Rev. J. C. Betton of Arkansas, in Eureka Springs, Ark., to Arzella Josephine Gaskins, born in Arkansas, April 14, 1894, a daughter of Stephen and Molly Victoria (Hatcher) Gaskins, the former born in Indiana, June 27, 1853, and the latter in Kentucky, March 27, 1863. Mr. and Mrs. Gaskins were married in Arkansas in 1887, and still reside in that state. Mr. Wright is a very sociable young man, good-natured and genial, and he and his wife are leaders in the social circles of their locality.