S. W. WRIGHT

WRIGHT, SHIELDS

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Date: 5/23/2009 at 16:35:39

The History of Appanoose County, Iowa, Containing A History of the County, its Cities, Towns, etc., A Biographical Directory of Citizens, War Records of its Volunteers in the late Rebellion, General and Local Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, History of the Northwest, History of Iowa, Map of Appanoose County, Constitution of the United States, Miscellaneous Matters, etc.; illustrated; Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878.

S. W. WRIGHT, was born in Pittsylvania Co., Va., Jan. 29, 1830; moved to Bloomfield, Davis Co., Iowa, May 5, 1850; came to Centerville, Appanoose Co., March 2, 1856, since which time has principally been engaged in the sale of drugs, medicines, etc. Married April 28, 1859, Miss Ada A. Shields, who was born in Madison, Putnam Co., Ind.; have had two children; Charlie, the eldest, died October 1862, aged 2 1/2 years; Gertie died April 1878, aged 16 years. Still engaged in the sale of drugs; also a stockholder and Cashier of the Farmer's National Bank of this place.