WRIGHT, SAMUEL

WRIGHT, DOWD

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 8/23/2019 at 20:26:38

MADISON TOWNSHIP.
P. O. FORT MADISON

WRIGHT, SAMUEL, retired, was born in England in 1812 ; he learned the trade of machinist and emigrated to America in 1832, and lived in Ohio until he came here, in 1840, and located in Lee Co. ; has made a farm close by Keokuk, where the west part of the city now stands ; he was engaged in steamboating for fifteen years, acting as engineer. He married Miss Leonora Dowd, of Missouri, in July, 1874 ; she is a native of Vermont. When Mr. Wright began life, he had nothing ; has earned what he acquired by his own industry.

Source: BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY
HISTORY OF LEE COUNTY IOWA
CHICAGO: WESTERN HISTORICAL COMPANY, 1879

Transcription typed/proofed as article was originally published in 1879