Biographical Sketch of John W. Wright, Johnson County, Missouri
Columbus Township
>From "The History of Johnson County, Missouri," 
Kansas City Historical Co. 1881

JOHN W. WRIGHT,

dealer in general merchandise, Columbus.  Was born near Chilhowee, this
county, Oct. 28, 1839, son of Douglass Wright, a native of Virginia,
who, while young, was taken to Kentucky, and thence to Missouri, and to
what is now Chilhowee township, about 1830.  He died there, Oct., 1872.
Elizabeth P. Wright, the mother of our subject, is the daughter of Thos.
Cull.  She still lives and resides with her son, John W. Wright.  Mr.
Wright married Anna C. Snodgrass, and four children cheer their
household:  Early, Ora, Charley and Stella; Lee died Oct. 1872.  Mr.
Wright went into business for himself at Chilhowee, succeeding J.R.
Johnson in merchandising.  He then engaged in farming, and since that
time has engaged in different enterprises from 1875 to 1880,
merchandising in Holden, then lived a time in Bates county.  In the fall
of 1881, he came to Columbus and bought out G.C. Wolfe, and now provided
with full stock carries on a general mercantile trade, which, though
good, is rapidly increasing.  The coming spring will find him supplied
with a full stock of farm implements and general farm supplies.  Mr.
Wright being a native of Johnson county, has witnessed many of the
changes which have come and gone.  He is an enterprising liberal
spirited man, ever ready to encourage that which is calculated to build
up the township and county.  He is a worthy member of the M.E. church,
south.

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