BIOGRAPHIES:  Joseph WRIGHT, Pigeon Township, Trempealeau Co., WI

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JOSEPH WRIGHT, farmer, Sec. 20, town of Pigeon, P. O. Whitehall; was born 
in the eastern part of Canada, Sept. 18, 1830, and in 1868 came to Wisconsin, 
locating in Trempealeau Co., town of Pigeon, then Lincoln. He owns 160 acres 
of land, which was a claim that he purchased from Orisan Lamberson and
afterward pre-empted it as a homestead, living there ever since.  Was side 
Supervisor of the town of Pigeon for 1880 and re-elected in 1881; has been 
School Clerk of Joint District No. 1, in towns Pigeon and Lincoln for 
thirty-nine years. Mr. Wright was married in 1855 to Miss Anna Douglas, she 
being also a native of Canada. They have six children-Margaret E., Mary R.,
Thomas W., Agnes I., Lettia J. and James VW.

--Transcribed from the "History of Northern Wisconsin, 1881," page 1042

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