T. E. Wright

WRIGHT

Posted By: Gordon Felland (email)
Date: 3/2/2008 at 15:56:31

T. E. Wright, of Lake Mills, Iowa, was born in New York, Feb. 26, 1827. He left there and came to Bristol in 1868, where he lived fourteen years, engaged in the mercantile business; moved to Lake Mills in October, 1882. He was a member of Sulla Post, G. A. R., at Lake Mills. He was married to Waity Dunhan, June 14, 1848. She was born in New York in 1826. Thore is one child—Alice, now the wife of H. N. Keeler, of Manly, Iowa, born in April, 1854. Mr. Wright enlisted in company K., 9th New York Cavalry, in 1861, and served ten months and was discharged by a general order to reduce the cavalry. In Bristol township, he has 413 acres of land on section 32, 120 on section 10 and fifty on section 19—total, 573 acres. He also owns property in Bristol, and town property in Lake Mills, where he resides.

Source: History of Mitchell and Worth Counties, Iowa, 1883, page 717.