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DR. F. S. WRIGHT, physician and surgeon, was born in Canada West, Jan. 7, 1844. His parents, Aecheolus and Martha (Humphrey) Wright, were also natives of Canada. During infancy our subject was brought to the states, his parents locating in Chicago, Ill., where young Wright attended subscription schools. When thirteen years of age he went south and shortly after entered the Mobile Seminary; pursued his studies about eight months, after which he traveled in Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and other Southern states, being indirectly connected with governmental service. In 1865 he returned to Chicago, Ill., and commenced the study of medicine under Dr. J. M. Fountain, of that city. He commenced the practice of his profession in the fall of 1869, traveling and making a specialty of treatment of the eye. In the fall of 1872 he came to this county, locating at Scotland, where he built up an extensive practice. So great were his labors that by continual riding and exposure he contracted rheumatism, and was forced to relinquish his work and go to Indian Medical Springs, Mo., for his health; remained there several months, then returned to this county, and in October, 1882, came to Joplin. Dr. Wright was married in Carthage, Mo., April 17, 1872, to Miss S. C. C., daughter of James and Susan Barnett, formerly of Virginia. Mrs. W. is a native of the Old Dominion, born May 27, 1854. The doctor was appointed postmaster at Scotland in 1873.