William C. 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 Clifton, Biographical Sketches, Page 1006

WILLIAM C. WRIGHT, merchant and Postmaster.  Martinville; was born Feb. 24, 
1821, in Herkimer Co., N Y.  He came to Winnebago Co., Ill., in 1839, with one 
shilling in his pocket worked out by the month two years, and received $15 per 
month; then went to Galena, Ill., where he worked one year in the lead mines; 
then went to Rockford, Ill., and was married to Mary Keith, by the Rev. John 
Crummer.  They then removed to McHenry, Ill., where he bought 120 acres of land 
from time Government and went to farming, at which he continued eighteen years; 
came to Wisconsin, and bought 120 acres of land on Sec. 13, town of Clifton, and 
farmed it for one year; then sold out the farm, and bought the place where he 
now lives from S. Millard, and commenced as a merchant; was appointed 
Postmaster, and has been time same ever since.  He has been a church member 
forty-seven years, and was one of the builders of the Free Methodist Church, and 
now owns it.  Rev. G. C. Coffee preached the first sermon there in the fall of 
1872.  Mr. Wright has been on the School Board, and has always taken an active 
part in the interest of the town.  He is a temperance man, and assisted to 
organize a Good Templars' lodge in the village, which meets in the M. E. Church.  
They have one daughter - Emma E., who was married to William Stephens, by Rev. 
C. G. Coffee, at the residence of her father.  She has two children - Idah May 
and Arthur W.