OBIT: John M. WRIGHT, 1941, Salisbury, Somerset County, PA

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JOHN M. WRIGHT

  John M. Wright, born in Garrett County, Md., May 23rd, 1855, died at his home 
in Salisbury, Pa., April 14, 1941.  His death was caused by a cerebral 
hemorrhage and arterial scierosis after suffering more than a year from the 
arterial trouble and an occasional heart attack.
  He was a son of John and Rebecca (Stout) Wright, well-known citizens of 
Salisbury for many years, where both of them died at great ages many years ago.  
His mother was a native of New Jersey.  The parents located in Somerset County, 
Pa., when John M., their youngest son, was still very young, and where nearly 
all of his life was spent.  However, when still a single man, he went to Iowa, 
where he had thought of locating, but about a year later he returned to 
Salisbury, and not long thereafter purchased the farm in Elk Lick Township of 
which his son, Harvey, is now the owner and occupant, between Salisbury and 
Boynton.
  Mr. Wright retired from farming and located in Salisbury within the last 15 
years.  His wife, Christina (Rembold) Wright, died in 1918.  He is survived by 
two daughters and one son, namely, Mrs. Cynthia Newman of Boswell; Grace, wife 
of William M. Perry of Salisbury, and Harvey.  He is also survived by five 
grandchildren, and one sister, Mrs. Ruhammah Hooe, of Oakland, California, now 
the only remaining member of a large family.
  Mr. Wright started his career as a laborer, but after became a farm owner, and 
one of the most prominent and well-known capitalists and money lenders in 
Somerset County.  At various times he was a heavy stockholder in various lines 
of business, including bank stocks.
  His funeral was held at ten o'clock a.m., Thursday, at his home, where he also 
died.  The service was conducted by his pastor, the Rev. A. M. Wright, of the 
local Evangelical and Reformed Church.
  Burial was in the Salisbury I.O.O.F. Cemetery, under the direction of Stanley 
M. Thomas, local mortician.

Meyersdale Republican, April 17, 1941