Biography of W. C. Wright, St Francis County, AR

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Submitted by: Paul V Isbell
        Date: 19 Nov 2008
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Since January 1948, W. C. Wright, owner of the Wright Motor & Implement Co. on
Highway 70 West has been a leading citizen of Forrest City. His firm actually
developed from the Shearin Implement Co. which his brother-in-law, J. B.
Shearin, opened in Forrest City in 1946 selling Allis Chalmers. In 1948, Mr.
Wright joined the partnership and added the Studebaker cars and trucks. Mr.
Wright was born in Webster County, Mississippi, the son of H. G. and Ada (Orman)
Wright. On Dec. 3, 1932, he married Miss Mae Shearin, daughter of J. B. and Lena
Shearin of Aberdeen, Miss., and to that union have been born a son, now enrolled
at Texas A & M. Mr. Wright belongs to First Baptist Church, Chamber of Commerce,
and St. Francis County Farm Bureau. He is a former Director of the National Farm
Loan Assoc. of Osceola, and Director of the Planters Co-op Gin in Blytheville.
In addition to his interests here, he manages his farming and commercial
interests in Mississippi County, Arkansas.


SOURCE:
HISTORY of ST. FRANCIS COUNTY, ARKANSAS, 1954 - Robert W. Chowning

Copyright, with Permission: Weston McCollum Lewey, Publisher
-Times Herald Publishing-Forrest City, Arkansas