Frank R. Wright Biography


	This biography appears on page 946 in "History of Dakota 
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				FRANK R. WRIGHT. 

	The present day farmer is as often as not a man of liberal 
education who realizes that thorough mental training is as valuable to 
an agriculturist as to a man of any other occupation. Such a farmer is 
Frank R. Wright, who resides on section 30, Valley Springs township, 
where he is successfully engaged in the cultivation of the fields. He 
is a man of college training and taught for several years in the school 
for the deaf located at Sioux Falls. A native of Iowa, he was born in 
Des Moines county, on the 17th of November, 1868, a son of Milton 
Wright. He was reared under the parental roof and attended the common 
schools, where his elementary and grammar-school education was 
acquired. Later he attended Sioux Falls College, taking the full 
classical course and being graduated in 1888, after which he secured a 
position as teacher in the South Dakota State School for Deaf Mutes at 
Sioux Falls, where he taught for three years, making a very creditable 
record. In 1892 he gave up teaching and engaged in the mercantile 
business at Rowena, remaining in that connection until 1895. At that 
time he disposed of his business and began farming, which occupation he 
followed for three years, but in 1898 he again accepted a position on 
the faculty of the school for the deaf and taught for another three 
years. In 1901 he returned to the farm and has since devoted his time 
and energies to agriculture. For the past two years he has operated all 
but forty acres of his father's farm, consisting of three hundred and 
twenty acres of land. He follows diversified farming and employs the 
most scientific methods in his work, thus securing most satisfactory 
results. 

	Mr. Wright was married in 1893 to Miss Emma Von Behren, who was 
for a number of years a teacher in the state school for the deaf at 
Sioux Falls. By her marriage she has become the mother of four 
children, three of whom survive, Frances Caroline, George Richard and 
Warren, all at home. The parents are consistent members of the 
Methodist Episcopal church and support all movements for the moral 
betterment of the community. Mr. Wright is a democrat in his political 
allegiance and has held a number of local offices, serving as township 
clerk and as justice of the peace in Split Rock township, holding the 
latter office for ten years. He is one of the representative men of 
Valley Springs township and his locality is the gainer because of his 
residence therein.