Biography of Edward Wright, pages 598 / 599.  History of De Kalb County, 
Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Edward Wright, retired farmer, is a native of New York, born Jan. 30, 1810, 
a son of Jephtha and Betsey (Gordon) Wright, natives f New Hampshire, of 
Scotch and English descent.  He was married April 26, 1832, to Polly Barry, 
daughter of John and Eve (Failing) Barry.  Her grandfather and his sister 
were captured by the French during the French and Indian war and taken to 
Canada.  The sister was soon after released, but he was held and exchanged 
as a prisoner of war.  Mrs. Wright died Feb 14, 1885, after sharing the 
hardships and privation and the comforts and pleasures of married life with 
her husband nearly fifty-three years.  They family consisted of six children, 
four of whom are living---Louisa, wife of Moses Gonser; Elizabeth, wife of 
Jacob Ringer; George J., of Osborn, Kas., and Mary J., wife of Park Sebert.  
Hiram and Celestia died in childhood.  George J. was a soldier in the war of 
the Rebellion, enlisting in the Seventy-fourth Indiana Infantry.  In 
December, 1863, on account of ill health, he was transferred to the Veteran 
Reserve Corps, where he served till his discharge, July 17, 1865.  In 1837 
Mr. Wright left his native State and located about twenty miles from 
Detroit, where he kept a hotel during the building of the first railroad 
from Detroit to Chicago.  In 1838 he moved to Steuben County, Ind., and 
settled on eighty acres of land his father had entered the years before.  
In the spring of 1839 he built a cabin into which he moved his family and 
began making a farm.  He added to his land till he had 160 acres and made 
it his home till the winter of 1847-‘8, when he moved to Fairfield Center 
and engaged in the mercantile business and in the manufacture of potash and 
pearlash, shipping to New York, and thence to England.  In 1860 he moved to 
Sedan where he ran an ashery three or four years.  Selling this, he bought 
about thirty acres of land and built a tannery, and also manufactured gloves 
and mittens a number of years.  He then in company with his son-in-law, Park 
Sebert, bought eighty acres of land, and subsequently added more to it till 
they had a large farm.  They afterward divided their land, and Mr. Wright 
now has a good farm of 116 acres.  He was Postmaster at Fairfield Center 
three or four years, and was the second Postmaster at Sedan. He has also 
served a Trustee  of Fairfield Township.  In politicis he is a Republican.

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