Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Wright, John H.
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Falls Township


JOHN H. WRIGHT farmer, P.O. Tullytown, was born in Lower 
Makefield township, Bucks county, March 25, 1829, and is a 
son of Stephen and Sarah (Hellings) Wright.  His mother was 
a native of Bristol and his father of New Jersey.  They were 
of English and German descent.  John H. was reared in Bucks 
county, receiving a common-school education, and at the age 
of sixteen learned the carpenter's trade in Morrisville at 
which he worked for seventeen years.  He then went to 
farming and since that time has devoted his entire time to 
agricultural pursuits, nine years of which time were spent 
in Burlington county, N. J.  He now resides in Falls 
township, where he owns a very fine farm.  He has met with 
success and is still actively engaged in farming.  He was 
married in 1850 to Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Harding, 
who is of German origin.  Mr. and Mrs. Wright are the 
parents of three children:  Ella, wife of Hon. Harry J. 
Shoemaker, a merchant in Tullytown; Ida, wife of Edward 
Brown; Elmer, in school at Trenton college.  Mr. Wright and 
his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, of 
which he is a member of the board of trustees. He has served 
several terms as school director and was several times 
juryman at Doylestown.