Bio: James M. Wright, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana
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James M. Wright, whose postoffice address is Vienna,
Lincoln parish, La., was born in Alabama, a son of
James It. Wright, who was a native of South Carolina,
born in 1817.  He was reared and educated a planter;
emigrated from South Carolina to Alabama in 1846; was
a member of the Masonic fraternity and a lifelong
democrat, also a member of the Methodist church.  He
was a great religious worker, and was deacon of his
church at the time of his death.  He married Miss
Margaret Lawrence in 1848 and became the father of six
children:  J. M.,  Carolina,  Musadora,  Catherine, 
Stephen, and  Isaac De Kalb (who died in infancy). 
The father of our subject died in Alabama, February
18, 1866, and his mother is still living in that
state.  J. M. Wright was reared and received his early
education in Alabama, and removed from that state to
Louisiana, in 1873, locating near Vienna, where he has
been quite successful in planting, in which he has
engaged extensively, during his entire active career,
and carries on an important mercantile business in
connection with his agricultural interests.  His
plantation is located five miles northwest of Vienna
on Big Creek, and consists of 600 acres.  His
principal crops are cotton and corn.  In 1876 Mr.
Wright married Miss Mattie Greene, a native of Vienna,
La., and a daughter of Col. Allen Greene.  The record
of the births of Mr. Wright's family is as follows: 
J. M. Wright, November 13, 1850;  Mattie L. (his
wife), October 17, 1854.  Their children:  Edwin
Allen, October 21, 1877;  Arvizena, November 5, 1879; 
Beulah, January 8, 1881;  Ella Dorene, October 16,
1883;  James Monroe, January 25, 1886;  Martha L.,
September 24, 1888.  A twin brother of Ella Dorene,
born on October 16, 1883; died on the 31st of the same
month.  Mr. Wright ranks among the prominent citizens
of Lincoln parish, and is quite influential in local
politics.  He espouses the cause of the democratic
party, and has always been solicitious that the county
and state offices should be filled with good and
worthy men.  In all respects he is a leading and
useful citizen, and has always aided to the extent of
his ability every movement having for its aim the
benefit of the public at large.

Biographical and Historical Memoires of Louisiana,
(vol. 2), p. 466.  Published by the Goodspeed
Publishing Company, Chicago, 1892.