HISTORY OF KENTUCKY AND KENTUCKIANS, E. Polk Johnson, three volumes,
Lewis Publishing Co., New York & Chicago, 1912. Common version, Vol. III,
pp. 1188-89.   [Jefferson County]

JOHN RINEHART WRIGHT, M.D.--Each calling or business has its place in the
scheme of human existence, constituting a part of the plan whereby life's
methods are pursued and man reaches his ultimate destiny.  There is no
class to whom great gratitude is due than to those noble minded men whose
life work has been the alleviation of the burden of suffering that rests
upon the world, thus lengthening the span of human existence.
     John Rinehart Wright, physician of Louisville, has gained distinctive
precedence in the treatment of the eye, ear, nose and throat, and is
recognized as an authority on the diseases of those organs.  Dr. Wright
is a native of Illinois, born in Effingham, November 18, 1869.  He is a
son of the late William C. and _______ (Rinehart) Wright, the father a
native of Maryland and the mother, born in Pennsylvania, both being early
settlers in Illinois.  The father was on his way with his father to the
California gold fields in '49 and they went on their way as far as across
the Rockies when they changed their plans and returned to Illinois and
located there, where the father engaged in merchandising at Effingham. He
died in 1891 and the mother in 1871.
     Dr. Wright was reared in Effingham and secured his preliminary
education at the public schools, graduating from the High School, following
this with a course of study at Austen College at Effingham.  Having
decided upon medicine as his choice of a profession for his life work, he
then attended the University of the South at Sewanee, Tennessee, in 1891.
In order to further perfect himself in the professional education, he took
post graduate work in Chicago, and commenced his career as a practitioner
in Colorado.  In 1904 he located in Louisville, since which time he has
been in continuous practice, making a specialty of the treatment of
diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat.  Throughout the intervening
years he has been a close and discriminating student of his profession,
keeping in constant touch with the advanced ideas and methods of practice
as set forth and followed by the leading members of the profession of
the world.
     He has served in a variety of positions in addition to the calls of
his regular practice.  He is on the medical staff of the Masonic Home for
the Widows and Orphans, and on the staff of St. Mary & Elizabeth Hospital.
For a time he was associate professor of the eye, ear, nose and throat
at the Louisville Medical College and also at the University of Louisville.
He is a member of the Jefferson County Medical Society, the Kentucky State
Medical Society, the American Medical Association and also of the West
End Medical Society of Louisville and the Commercial Club.
     Dr. Wright married Miss Emma Poplin, a native of Missouri, born in
Poplar Bluff, which town was named for her grandfather, Green L. Poplin,
a noted physician of Kentucky who moved into Missouri.  Her father was
John Poplin, deceased.  Dr. Wright is recognized as a man of broad mind
and scholarly attainments, who has carried his investigation far and wide
into the realms of knowledge, while his ready adaptability enables him
to apply with accuracy his knowledge to the needs of those who come under
his professional care.

Wright Rinehart Poplin
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Effingham-Effingham-IL MD PA TN CO

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