Wright, James H.

WRIGHT

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 8/13/2008 at 14:03:54

James H. Wright

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.75, Belknap Twp.)
James H. Wright, farmer, P. O. Oakland, was born in Henderson County, Ill., January 25, 1855. He is the son of James and Lucretia (Hammond) Wright. His father was born in Nelson County, Ky., February 17, 1812. He was a farmer, and emigrated to Illinois about 1848. He is still living in this county. His (subject's) mother was born in the same county as his father, and in 1817, and is still living. Our subject lived at home until he was twenty-two years of age, when he began farming for himself; he left Illinois with his father in the fall of 1868, and came to this county, locating in Center Township. He was married in Adair County, this State, in 1879 to Rosa Jennings, born in that county January 18, 1863. She is the daughter of Robert and Nancy (Snyder) Jennings, both natives of Pennsylvania. Her father died in Warren County, Ill, in 1864; her mother lives with subject, who, since his marriage, has been engaged in farming. Mr. and Mrs. Wright have one child, Lisle Claude, born March 26, 1881. In politics, Republican.