Philander Wright Biography - Grant County Wisconsin

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Submitted by David W. Taft, dtaft @ cowtown.net

History of Grant County Wisconsin
Western Historical Publishing, Chicago, July 1881
Town of Fennimore, Biographical Sketches, Page 991 

PHILANDER WRIGHT, retired; Fennimore; born in the town of Belcher, Hampden Co , 
Mass., in 1818; lived in Massachusetts till 1835, when he removed with his 
father to Pennsylvania; his mother died when he was about 14 years of age; came 
to Grant Co. in 1847, and settled in the town of Fennimore; has been a resident 
of this town since that time, except one year spent in Lancaster.  His wife was 
Sarah Cramer, daughter of Enos and Anna Cramer, born in Wayne Co., Penn.; they 
have had seven children, six of whom are living - J. N., Joel W., Charles O., 
Albert C., Mary E. and Roland N.; lost first child, Esther Ann.