Wright, John A

From Lane Co Oregon

Shaver, F. A., Arthur P. Rose, R. F. Steele, and A. E. Adams, compilers. "An Illustrated History of Central Oregon." ("Embracing Wasco, Sherman, Gilliam, Wheeler, Crook, Lake, & Klamath Counties") Spokane, WA: Western Historical Publishing Co., 1905.

ALBERT M. WRIGHT

    one of the prosperous farmers and solid business men of Sherman county,

resides five miles southeast of Monkland. He was born at Zanesville, Muskingum county, Ohio, March 26, 1860, the son of John A. and Eva (Vestal) Wright, both natives of Ohio. John A. was born in Licking county; his parents were of Scotch ancestry, and his father served with distinction as captain in the War of 1812. The mother, Mrs. John A. Wright, was born in Zanesville, Ohio; her parents having been natives of what is now West Virginia, and her father's parents of Pennsylvania. The parents of Mrs. Wright are now living in Lane county, Oregon.

    In the excellent public schools of Zanesville our subject received a sound

business education. His father was a contractor and builder and the family removed to Harrison county, Ohio, in 1877. Here John A. Wright engaged in the marble business and here our subject acquired the trade of .marble cutting. In 1884 they all came to Oregon, locating in Sherman county. Here John A. Wright and his son took up land, the father a half, and the son a quarter of a section. They had but limited capital, and worked out at times, gradually improving their places. In the fall of 1903 the father and mother removed to Lane county, twenty miles from Eugene. The father rents his farm in Sherman county, our subject now owns a half section of land, and rents four hundred and fifty acres more.

Our subject was married at Cadiz, Ohio, March 22, 1883, to Miss Jessie F. Adams, born in that place, and the daughter of William and Mary (Nichols) Adams, natives of Ohio. Her father died at Cadiz, September 25, 1898. The. mother's father was a native of Maryland, and she now lives at Cadiz, Ohio.

    Albert M. Wright, our subject, has three sisters; Fanny, wife of Rev. D. H.

Leech, of Woodburn, Oregon, where he is established as a preacher in the Methodist Episcopal church; Lillian, wife of James H. Fraser, of North Yakima, Washington, in the implement and harness business ; and Mamie, wife of John V. O'Leary, a sheep-raiser in the Willamette Valley. Mrs. Wright has two brothers and four sisters living; Ernest and George, at Cadiz, Ohio ; Catherine, wife of Albert McConnell, also of Cadiz ; Annie, wife of W. D. Ritchie, of the same city

Carrie, single, residing at Cadiz; Mrs. Martha Cope, of Mansfield, Illinois;

and Frank, deceased.

Two children have blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. Wright, Ethel M. and Eva V., and they have one adopted son, Raymond A. Havnar, the son of Mrs. Wright's sister, Mrs. Rettie Havnar, who died at Dennison, Ohio, October 11, 1895. Mr. Wright is a member of the A. O. U. W., of Moro ; politically, he is a Prohibitionist. In 1901 he was elected county commissioner on the Prohibition ticket, and several times he has been selected as delegate to Prohibition conventions. For a number of years he has been school director. Both he and his wife are devout and consistent members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and he is superintendent of the Sunday school.