BIO:  Albert S. WRIGHT, Menallen Township, Adams County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania
Chicago:  Warner, Beers & Co., 1886
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Part III, History of Adams County, Page 482

ALBERT S. WRIGHT, retired farmer, Bendersville, was born December 30, 1845, and 
is a son of Thomas H. and Charlotte J. (Steward) Wright.  He began farming a 
part of the old homestead on his own account at the age of twenty-four, and 
followed agriculture until the spring of 1885, when failing health compelled him 
to abandon the arduous duties of the farm.  He then came to Bendersville, and 
erected a commodious brick house, where he now resides.  He still, however, 
retains 150 acres of the homestead.  He married, November 11, 1869, Sarah M. 
Bender, a daughter of John and Elizabeth (Slaybaugh) Bender, and they have one 
son, Scott S., born September 29, 1879.  Mr. Wright is a member of the Society 
of Friends, but his wife is a Lutheran, and he usually accompanies her to 
church.  Mr. Wright’s ancestors were Scotch-Irish, and first came to America 
about 1691-92, or shortly after the battle of the Boyne, in which some of them 
were participants.  The first of the family, however, that it is possible to 
identify by name, was John Wright, who was a member of the Society of Friends, a 
farmer.  He lived many years in the county, and died in 1821 or 1822, aged about 
eighty years.  His wife was Elizabeth Hammond, a native of this county, born 
near the Friends’ meeting house; she died in 1823 or 1824.  William, their son, 
was born September 29, 1778, in Menallen Township, this county; November 30, 
1803, he married Rachel Thomas, a daughter of Abel and Ellen (Roberts) Thomas, 
natives of Berks County, and who came to Adams County in 1801.  William, who had 
been a farmer all his life, died March 8, 1853; his wife was born March 8, 1778, 
and died April 19, 1836.  They are both buried in the Friends’ burying-ground in 
Menallen township.  Their children were Ellen, Thomas H., Elizabeth, Abel T., 
Isaac J., Savannah R., all now deceased, except the youngest two.