COLUMBIANA COUNTY OHIO - BIO: WRIGHT, Hal H. (published 1925)
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HISTORY OF OHIO, The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925
Volume V, Page 15

        HAL H. WRIGHT.  One of the important industries of the City of
Lisbon in Columbiana County is the Wright Manufacturing Company, founders
and manufacturers of products that are sent to nearly all parts of the
world. Three generations of their family have been identified with this
business, the president of the company, Hal H. Wright, representing the
middle generation.
        The founder of the business was Hugh Wright, who was born in
Columbiana County, in 1835, was reared there, and in 1858 moved to Warren
in Trumbull County, where he married and followed the trade of machinist.
In 1865, at the end of the Civil war, he went South and spent three years
in Alabama. Then returning to Warren, he owned and operated a machine shop
until 1881, when he started his business at Lisbon. He remained in active
charge until 1890, when his son Hal became his successor. Hugh Wright then
retired and spent his last years at Salida, Colorado, where he died in
1911. He was a republican and a member of the Masonic fraternity. His wife,
Addie Hurlbut, was born in 1835, and died at Denver, Colorado, in 1918.
They had four children: Clarion M., a machinist in New York City; Miss Anna
Dell, of Denver; Hal H.; and Edgar M., an employe of the Pressed Steel Car
Company at Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania.
        Hal H. Wright attended the public schools at Warren, including high
school, and was eighteen when the call to practical work and business took
him out of school. He learned the machinist's trade in his father's shop at
Lisbon, and has been a resident and business man of that city for over
forty years. As noted above, he took active charge of the business in 1890,
and under him it has greatly developed and expanded its usefulness as a
general foundry and machine plant. He is president and active head of the
business, and his three associates are his sons Charles F., Hal F. and
William F. Wright. This company manufactures an important line of chain
hoists, traveling cranes and trolleys, and is one of the best equipped
industries of the kind in Ohio. The products are sold and distributed all
over the United States, and the export trade has been growing in volume for
a number of years. The company owns the large plant and offices at the Erie
Railway at the foot of Beaver Street. 125 persons find employment in this
business.
        Mr. Wright is a republican, and has served as a member of the board
of education at Lisbon, is a member of New Lisbon Lodge No. 65, Free and
Accepted Masons, New Lisbon Chapter No. 92, Royal Arch Masons, Salem
Commandery No. 42 Knights Templar and Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine
at Cleveland.
        His home is one East Chestnut Street at Lisbon. He married in that
Ohio town, December 5, 1889, Mrs. Mary Farmer, daughter of Isaac P. and
Susan (Cornwell) Farmer, now deceased. Her father was a civil engineer. The
children of Mr. and Mrs. Wright are the three sons named above, active
associates in the Wright Manufacturing Company. Charles F. is a graduate of
the Carnegie Institute of Technology of Pittsburgh. Hal F. Attended the
Ohio State University one year and then for three years was in the Carnegie
Institute of Technology. William F., the youngest son, is a graduate of the
Lisbon High School, and spent three years in the Carnegie Institute at
Pittsburgh.


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