San Benito-Santa Clara County CA Archives Biographies.....Wright, E. P. 1816 - 
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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll, Editor (1893)

CAPT. E. P. WRIGHT is one of the oldest pioneers of San Benito county. He came
to California, in 1849, from Wilcox county, Ala., but is a native of South
Carolina, being born in Sumter district, September 3, 1816. Soon after his birth
his father removed to Alabama, and there died five months after.

  The captain was reared in Conecuh county, Alabama, until eighteen years of
age, when he engaged in raising cotton and corn until 1835, when he went to
Texas, joined the revolution and aided in gaining the independence of the Lone
Star State. He served there as a private during 1836, and then located in
Coucordia parish, Louisiana, near Natchez, Mississippi, as a farmer. In 1844 he
returned to Alabama, but in 1849 came to California, being one of a party who
chartered a schooner and sailed for Brazos-Santiago, Texas; crossed the Rio
Grande river, and with teams, wagons and pack mules made their way to Mazatlan,
Mexico. From this point they sailed to San Francisco, taking thirty-one days to
the trip. Upon arrival in California, Captain Wright spent about three years in
the mines and then returned to Alabama. In 1852 he again made the trip, and
embarked in farming at Gilroy. While living there he was several times elected
Justice of the Peace, which office he filled with credit. Later, he came to San
Benito county and located his present home at the confluence of the Tres Pinos
and San Benito creeks, in the most fertile and cultivated portion of central
California.

  He was married in Alabama in 1844, to Miss Margaret L. Hank, a native of
Alabama, who is still living. Mr. and Mrs. Wright have eight children, seven of
whom are daughters, and of these seven six have occupied responsible positions
as teachers in the public schools. Mrs. Wright is a lady of intelligence, and is
a devoted wife and mother.

  Although born and reared in the heart of secession, Capt. Wright has always
been a strong Union man and a Gerrit Smith abolitionist. He served in his early
days in the Alabama militia, with rank as Captain, which title has clung to him,
and he is known and liked as Captain Wright by a large circle of acquaintances
and friends. He is a man of wide observation, general information and pronounced
opinions, and is liberal to a fault.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Memorial and Biographical History of the Coast Counties of Central California.

Illustrated.

Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast from the
Earliest Period of its Discovery to the Present Time, together with Glimpses of
its Auspicious Future; Illustrations and Full-Page Portraits of some of its
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers, and Prominent
Citizens of To-day.



HENRY D. BARROWS,
Editor of the Historical Department.

LUTHER A. INGERSOLL,
Editor of the Biographical Department.

"A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendants."-Macaulay.


CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY.
1893.

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