Androscoggin County ME Archives Biographies.....Wright, Abijah B. 1800 - 1884
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Author: Everett S. Stackpole

   ABIJAH B. WRIGHT, M. D., was one of the early physicians of Durham. He lived
just south of the present Cong. church, near S. W. Bend, and had an apothecary
shop by the side of his house. He came to Durham from Lewiston. His ancestors
came from Dracut, Mass. His widow, Abigail (Hardy) Wright, married Nathaniel
Parker in 1858. He had a son Horace who married, May 14, 1840, Mary Ann Lincoln
of Durham, and a daughter, Allura, who married, July 30, 1835, Sidney Skelton of
Lewiston. She is still living in Auburn. Joel Wright was his nephew, who used to
live near by the. Doctor and had a family of thirteen children, none of them,
however, born in Durham. All have moved out of town except Geo. Washington
Wright. Joel Wright died 10 Jan. 1884, aged 83 yrs. 9 mos. 5 days.

   Dr. Abijah Wright died 17 April 1842, aged 52 years.


Additional Comments:

Part of Chapter IX.
A FEW OUT OF MANY

Extracted from:

HISTORY OF DURHAM, MAINE
WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES.

BY EVERETT S. STACKPOLE.

PUBLISHED BY VOTE OF TOWN.

LEWISTON: PRESS OF LEWISTON JOURNAL COMPANY. 
1899.


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