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


J. WESLEY WRIGHT merchant, P.O. Bristol, was born in Bristol 
May 29, 1843, and is a son of John and Rebecca (Bloomsburg) 
Wright, natives of Bucks county.  His father was a merchant 
of Bristol and had five sons, three now living.  They are 
all prosperous merchants in Bristol.  J. Wesley is the 
oldest.  He was reared in Bristol, attending the public 
schools, and early in life clerked in his father's store.  
He was admitted to a partnership with his father in 1865, 
and continued the business for three years, after which his 
father retired from it, and since then he has conducted it 
alone.  His father built the present store building in 1857. 
 In 1864 Mr. Wright married Lucy, a daughter of Joseph 
Tomlinson, of Bristol.  They have one child, William S., who 
is studying law.  Mr. and Mrs. Wright are members of the 
Methodist Episcopal church, of which he is a trustee and 
treasurer and a teacher of the Bible class in the Sabbath 
school.  During the late war he served in the Union army as 
an emergency man.  He served twenty-one years as a member of 
the council of Bristol, and during that time served four 
years as chief burgess.  He is a republican and a member of 
the Grand Army of the Republic.