C. C. Wright Biography


	This biography appears on page 983 in "History of Dakota 
	Territory" by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. V (1915) and was 
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				C. C. WRIGHT. 

	C. C. Wright has now reached the venerable age of eighty-five 
years and is living retired at the home of his daughter, Mrs. S. Q. 
Payne, in Sanborn county, but for many years was an active factor in 
the agricultural development of this part of the state. He was born in 
Talmadge, Ohio, May 10, 1834, his parents being Sidney H. and Mabel 
(Fern) Wright. The father died in the year 1864. C. C. Wright spent his 
youthful days under the parental roof and is indebted to the public-
school system of Ohio for the educational privileges which he enjoyed. 
After his textbooks were put aside he learned the carpenter's trade, 
which he followed in Illinois, and in 1854 he turned his attention to 
farming, in which he was engaged in Illinois until 1882. In that year 
he arrived in Dakota territory, settling in Sanborn county, where he 
took up a homestead claim, and he is still the owner of three hundred 
and twenty acres of rich and productive land. He at once began to till 
the soil and improve his place and contributed in no small measure to 
the agricultural progress of the community. After long connection with 
farming interests he retired from active business and now makes his 
home with his daughter, Mrs. S. Q. Payne. 

	His political allegiance has been given in turn to the 
republican, alliance and democratic parties and he served as a member 
of the South Dakota senate in the session of 1895. He has always been 
actively interested in state and national politics and has ever kept 
well informed on the questions and issues of the day. A lifelong member 
of the Baptist church, his religious faith has guided him in all of his 
relations with his fellow men, and throughout the entire course of his 
life he has endeavored to follow the golden rule.