Robert Wright (b. 1847)

WRIGHT , GRUMMITT

Posted By: Dorothy Gosse (email)
Date: 5/25/2005 at 23:10:12

Wright, Robert, farmer, Section 29;(Smithfield township) P. O. Fayette; was born in Yorkshire, England, March 31, 1847; came to this country in 1871; has 160 acres of land, valued at $3,200. Married Catherine Grummitt, in 1870; she was born Lincolnshire, England, April 4, 1844. He left England May, 1869; came to America with his father; traveled over nearly all the Eastern States and part of Canada; returned to England, lived there one year, then came to Ogle County, Illinois, lived there two years, then came to this county, where he has resided since.

1878 History of Fayette County, Iowa, page 685