BIOGRAPHIES:  Dr. J. T. BRIGHT, Knapp, Dunn County, WI

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Dr. J. T. Bright, Knapp. Born in Columbia County, Ohio, in 1837. He read
medicine in Seneca County with Dr. Joseph M. Yers, and began practice in
Montcalm Co., Mich. He enlisted in 1861 in the 13th Pennsylvania Cavalry;
he was orderly sergeant of Company I; was afterward promoted to a first
lieutenancy. During the last part of the war, engaged in the medical
department of the 2nd Brigade 2nd Division Cavalry Corps. He was wounded at 
the battle of Ream's Station, from the effects of which he has never fully 
recovered. He came to Dunn County in August 1873. His wife was born in North 
Carolina. They have five children.

-- From "History of Northern Wisconsin, An Account of Its Settlement, Growth,
Development and Resources; an Extensive Sketch of its Counties, Cities, 
Towns and Villages." Volume 1.  Chicago: the Western Historical Company, 
A.T. Andreas, Proprietor, 1881, page 288