Wright, William W.

WRIGHT

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 11/18/2008 at 13:35:43

William W. Wright

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.267, Wright Twp.)
William W. Wright, farmer, P. O. Griswold, Cass Co., Iowa, was born in Noble County, Ind., September 9, 1860. He is the son of Simeon and Emeline (Arnold) Wright, he born in Massachusetts in 1827, she in Cattaraugus County, N. Y., in 1832. They moved to Indiana with their parents, and from there to this county in 1865, locating on Section 25, Township 75, Range 38, where they lived until the spring of 1882, when they went to Griswold, Cass County, three miles from their original location in this county, and here they at present reside. The father was Justice of the Peace for ten years, and has served one term on the Board of Supervisors. Our subject had a common school education, adn worked at home till the age of twenty years. He was married, at the residence of William Deans, Wright Township, September 11, 1881, to Carrie E. Strandell, born in Sweden May 13, 1863, daughter of Louis A. and Catharine Christina Strandell, both natives of Sweden. They came to the United States about 1869, locating in Cass County, but are at present residing in Des Moines, this State. Our subject farms principally in grain. In politics, he is a Republican.