Wright, S. H.

WRIGHT, TONE, NEWHOUSE

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WRIGHT, S. H.
Farmer and Stock Grower and Dealer; Sec. 25; P. O. Colfax; born in Ontario Co., N. Y. in 1817; moved to La Grange Co., Ind. in 1836, thence to this county in May 1855. Owns 320 acres of land, valued at $50 per acre. Married Elizabeth TONE in 1841. She was born in Cayuga Co., N. Y. in 1822. She died in Indiana in 1844. In 1857, he married Miss Sarah NEWHOUSE; born in Hocking Co., Ohio in 1829. They have four children - Mary, Samuel E., Minerva and Sedgwick. Mr. W. is Independent in politics. Was School Director for fifteen years; is now School Treasurer, also Township Trustee. Mrs. W. is a member of the M. E. Church. He came here for the purpose of growing stock, to which he devoted his whole attention, feeding from 100 to 150 head of bullocks, and double that number of hogs per year; he is the pioneer stock feeder of Iowa. ~ "Poweshiek Township Biographies," The History of Jasper County, Iowa, (Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878)