Wright, William F. (1857-1937)

WRIGHT

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 11/10/2007 at 22:58:40

William Franklin Wright
Feb 10, 1857 - May 19, 1937

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.125, James Twp.)
William F. Wright, farmer, P. O. Oakland, was born in Henderson County, Ill., February 10, 1857, son of James and Lucretia (Hammon) Wright, both natives of Kentucky, he born February 17, 1812, and she in 1817. The farmer is a farmer, and is now living in James Township. The mother is also living. They had eleven children - four sons and seven daughters. Our subject received his education in this county, and has always been a farmer. He came to James Township in 1868, and, in 1881, purchased eighty acres of prairie land at $12.50 per acre, which is now all improved, including a good house, which he built the same year. He engages in general farming. He is not married but his widowed sister, Sarah E. Vance, is keeping house for him. Our subject is a Good Templar, Oakland Lodge, No. 61. In politics, he is a Republican.