Biographical Sketch of M.W. Wright, Pulaski County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas,
 Pulaski, Phelps & Dent Counties, Missouri, Published 1889, Goodspeed
 Publishing Company.

Transcribed by: Penny Harrell (Incog3678@aol.com)

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M. W. Wright, was born in Baltimore, MD., in 1822.  His father,
William J. Wright, was a native of England, and came to the United
States about 1818, settling in Baltimore, where the family lived
until the outbreak of the war, then returning to England, leaving
our subject in this country.  The latter received his early educa-
tion in the private schools of Baltimore, and spent two years at
the Normal School in Washington, Del.  When fifteen years of age 
he left home and went to New Orleans, where he was employed for
four or five years with Hewitt, Norton & Co., commission merchants.
In 1849 Mr. Wright embarked for California, going by way of the
Isthmus of Panama, and spent three years in the gold mines with 
fair success.  He returned to New Orleans in 1852, and from there 
went to Louisville, KY., where he worked in the Louisville, New
Albany & Chicago Railroad shops until 1856, part of the time having
charge of an engine.  In 1856 he went to St. Charles County, MO.,
and turned his attention to farming, which occupation he followed
until 1875, when he removed to Pulaski County.  In 1859, in St. 
Charles County, he married Charlotte Chambers, who died in 1865,
leaving two children.  In 1870 Mr. Wright married Mrs. Mary Scofield,
daughter of Moores and Nancy Burbanks, natives, respectively, of New
England and Ohio, the former of whom died in 1835 and the latter in
1868.  Mr. and Mrs. Burbanks, who were married in 1810, settled in
St. Charles County in 1808, and were among the earliest white settlers
of that county.  Mr. Burbanks and Mr. Alexander Chambers (father of
Charlotte Chambers) were comrades in the War of 1812, and served under
Col. Nathan Boone.  Mr. Chambers settled in St. Charles County in 1802.
Mr. Wright owns 140 acres of land in Pulaski County and a home in 
Richland.  In 1878 he was elected justice of the peace, which office
he held until 1886, and from 1880 to 1882 he was associate judge of
the Western District of the county court.  Politically he is a Democrat.


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