Bio of Bright, A. H. (b.1819) Wabasha Co., MN
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This bio comes from "HISTORY OF WABASHA COUNTY" 1884.
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Bright, A. H., (page 1122), farmer, is descended from Henry Bright, a 
Pennsylvania Dutchman. Harmon, son of Henry, married Sarah Kean, both "to 
the manor born," and settled on a farm in Sadsbury, Crawford county. Here 
was born to them the subject of this sketch, May 12, 1819. He received a 
farm training and common-school education. When nineteen he went out to 
farm labor and saved enough from his wages so that he bought some land at 
twenty-two, and went on it. In 1840 he married Catharine, daughter of 
William and Dorothy Poole, all of New York. In 1844 he went to Illinois 
and built a sawmill on Rock river, fifteen miles below Rockford. He was 
afterward in a sawmill in Janesville, Wisconsin; farmed some years on 
Sugar river, west of Janesville. He became a resident of Minnesota in 
1862, and resided two years on a farm in Belvidere, Goodhue county. Then 
he traded that property for one hundred and forty-five acres on section 9, 
Mazeppa, where his home has been ever since. His domain now includes three 
hundred and forty acres in this township. He has dealt considerably in 
lands. He is a thorough republican, but meddles not with politics. On the 
unanimous vote of the town he once accepted the office of justice, but 
resigned before his term expired. Theologically he is a Free-thinker. 
Alanson Porter, his eldest child, died at fourteen years of age. Priscilla 
J. (Mrs. Harry Dakes), lives at Oakland, California; Hiram Juram 
Hydecooper, Roberts Station, Wisconsin; the rest reside in Mazeppa, viz: 
Rhoda Adell (Mrs. Orrin Boughton), Thaddeus Sobieski, William Henry 
Harmon, Sarah Catharine Elizabeth (Mrs. Jones Segar), Albert Rathborne 
Frisby, and a son bearing the full name of Marquis de La Fayette.