Etowah-Calhoun County AlArchives Biographies.....Wright, Milton R. 1837 - 
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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

  MILTON R. WRIGHT, M. D., Physician and Surgeon, Gadsden, son of Rufus W. and
Annie (Gilchrist) Wright, was born in Chester County, S. C., November 8, 1834.
The senior Mr. Wright came to Alabama in 1835, located in Calhoun County in
1837, and lived on his plantation five miles below Gadsden, on the Coosa River,
the rest of his days. He died in 1774. at the age of sixty-five years.

  The subject of this sketch was reared on his father's plantation, acquired a
good English education at the common schools, and gave a few years of his time
to teaching. In 1859, he took his first course of lectures in the study of
medicine at Atlanta, and in October, 1862, joined the First Alabama Cavalry as
assistant-surgeon. A few months later, he was transferred to the Thirty-first
Alabama Infantry, and remained with the army until the fall of 1864, when on
account of ill health he was compelled to resign. Returning to Etowah County, he
resumed the practice of medicine a short time, accumulating thereat means
sufficient to enable him to prosecute his collegiate studies. In the spring of
1870, he graduated from the Alabama Medical College, at Mobile, and since that
time has been regularly and successfully in the practice. He is a member of the
State and County Medical Associations, and is one of the counselors in the former.

  Dr. Wright was married in May, 1860, to Mary E. Bevens, daughter of Dr. Revens
and has had born to him five children, to-wit: Fannie B. (deceased). Mary J.
(Mrs. Dr. J. P. Liddell), James M. (deceased), Rufus B. and Milton R.

  The family are members of the Baptist Church, and the Doctor is a Mason.



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Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART IV.
MONOGRAPHS OF THE PRINCIPAL CITIES AND TOWNS IN NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ALABAMA,
TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF MANY OF THEIR REPRESENTATIVE PEOPLE.


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