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Author: “Memorial Record of Alabama,” Volume 2, published by Brant & Fuller in Madison, WI (1893), pages 454

William H. Wright, of the firm of Campbell & Wright, bankers and doing business 
at Tuskegee, Macon county, Ala., was born in Lincoln county, Ga., in 1827, the 
son of Hon. John and Elizabeth (Walker) Wright, natives of Columbia and Lincoln 
county. Ga.  Mrs. Wright died in her native county in 1846, and in 1847 Mr. 
John Wright came to what is now Bullock county, where he died in 1863, aged 
about sixty-seven years.  He was a farmer in his calling, but he was a man of 
much prominence among his neighbors, having served as their representative in 
the Georgia legislature.  John H. Walker, the maternal grandfather of William 
H. Wright, was a native of Kentucky, but died in Walton county, Ga., having 
followed farming during his life.  William H. Wright is the second in a family 
of four sons and three daughters, born to his parents as follows:  Mary, widow 
of Charles B. Dill; William H.; James, deceased, a private in the Confederate 
army during the Civil war, but who was chiefly employed in a recruiting camp, 
owing to disability physically; Martha, deceased wife of J. B. Neal; Eliza J., 
deceased wife of George W. Campbell; John, who served all through the late war, 
but is now deceased, and Moses, w ho was a soldier until 1864, w hen he died in 
the hospital at Richmond, Va.  William H. Wright came to Alabama with his 
father, and after following his calling of farmer for a year or two, at the age 
of twenty-one entered the employ of Bedell & Lanier as clerk.  In 1852 he 
became a partner of G. W. Campbell, his brother-in-law.  In the fall of 1863 he 
joined Wheeler’s cavalry, served as a private, was later in the ordnance 
department, and at the close of the war was an ordnance officer in Hanson’s 
brigade.  He was in the Georgia campaign, followed Gen. Sherman to the 
Carolinas, and surrendered at the close, near Columbia.  After the restoration 
of peace he passed a year and a half in the store, but the firm at that time 
purchased a plantation near Union Springs, of which he had the management for 
five years, when, in 1871, E. T. Varner, L. V. Alexander and Campbell & Wright 
built the Tuskegee railroad, of which he has had control ever since, and has 
managed with much success.  Mr. Wright was married in December, 1858, to Miss 
Lucy, daughter of Alfred and Nancy Carter, natives of Georgia, whence they came 
to Butler county, Ala., in 1819, and where Mrs. Wright was born.  The children 
born to this union were then in number, of whom seven are still living, viz.:  
Ida, wife of S. B. Johnston; George C. of Tuskegee, James C., chief engineer of 
the Savannah, Americus & Montgomery railroad; Loraine, Inez, Bessie, and 
Moses.  Capt. Wright is a member of Tuskegee lodge, F. & A. & M. No. 57, and 
although not an office-seeker, is a stanch supporter of the democratic party.

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