Wright, Jesse

WRIGHT

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 4/3/2008 at 22:24:02

Jesse Wright

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.82, Boomer Twp.)
Jesse Wright, farmer, P. O. Missouri Valley, Harrison Co., came to Pottawattamie in the fall of 1866, and to his present farm in March 1867; he has been on it ever since. The first 80 acres that he bought was school land, paying $1.25 per acre. He is a native of Kentucky, Wayne County; was born in 1830. His home was Kentucky till he moved to Iowa in 1860, but lived in the eastern part of the State till 1866, when he came to Pottawattamie. When coming to his present farm, there was not a house between it and Harris Grove on the northeast. On Honey Creek to the north of him there were a few settlers. He has 200 acres in his farm, and twenty acres in timber besides, almost the entire farm being in cultivation. Mr. Wright was married, in Kentucky, in 1855, to Miss Rhoda Jane McCoighn. They have eleven children. In 1854, Mr. Wright had been out through Iowa, and was in Council Bluffs when it was Kanesville. He is a member of the Grange and of the Masonic fraternity. He has always been a Democrat. Mr. Wright has one of the most substantial barns to be found anywhere. Its storage capacity for hay is over sixty tons. He has demonstrated that fruit-raising can be done with success in Boomer Township. Please note: Oakland was at one time called Big Grove.