Carroll County, KY - Bios:  Wright, Dr. Shelby
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Shelby WRIGHT 3562, Carroll Co. 

Surname: Wright, Ragsdale, Hampton, Coblin

Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 7th ed., 1887, Carroll Co.

DR. SHELBY WRIGHT, a practicing physician, was born in Carroll County, Ky., January 30, 1858, 
and is the sixth of a family of twelve children born to Lewis and Adelina (Ragsdale) Wright, 
natives of Carroll County. Shelby Wright was reared on a farm, and received a common-school 
education, and commenced the study of medicine in 1872 under Drs. Hampton and Coblin. He 
attended lectures in 1880-81, and graduated in 1882. He settled in Carroll County, where he 
now has a very large practice. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. 
Politically he is a Democrat.