Androscoggin County ME Archives Biographies.....Wright, William Riley 1816 - 1879
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Author: Everett S. Stackpole

   WILLIAM RILEY WRIGHT, M. D., was a cousin to Joel. He was son of Capt.
Jonathan and Sallie Wright, born in Strong, Dec. 15, 1816. His early life was
spent on a farm. He was educated for his profession in a Medical School at
Worcester, Mass. He moved to Durham in Sept., 1856, and resided there till his
death, June 12, 1879. He married, Nov. 27, 1839, Mary Hinkley Backus of
Farmington. They had two children, Belle J., who became the wife of Samuel K.
Gilman of Boston, Mass., and now resides in Farmington, Me.; and Josiah Lister
Wright, M. D., who was born in Farmington Dec. 22, 1850, and has practiced
medicine in Durham since 1884. Dr. William R. Wright was a man of cheerful and
sunny disposition and one whom little children greatly loved. He was generous to
an eminent degree, never pressing a claim against the poor or the unfortunate.
The hungry were fed at his board and the homeless always found shelter under his
roof. He was prominent in the establishment of the Acacia Lodge of Free Masons
in Durham and was always a worker in that society. It maybe truly said of him
that he was "one who loved his fellow-men." His wife died Sept. 11, 1889.

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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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