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Below is a family biography included in History of Lee County, Iowa published by Western Historical Company in 1879. These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary. Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more. There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.
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WRIGHT, ALEXANDER, far., Sec. 25; P. O. Clay’s Grove; son of Robert and Phoebe Wright, was born Sept. 5, 1811, in Philadelphia, Penn.; parents moved into Lancaster Co. the following year; in his early life he commenced learning the shoemaker’s trade, which, not suiting his fancy he learned the wagon-maker’s trade. In 1832, he went to Juniata Co., worked at wagon-making two years, then to Cumberland Co., and worked at manufacturing threshing machines, then returned to Lancaster Co., and worked at threshing machines; April, 1840, started for the West via Cincinnati and St. Louis, up to Fort Madison, where he arrived Aug. 24, 1840; came to a friend of the name of C. J. Price; worked on a farm for him a short time, then commenced working at carpenter, and joiner work, which he followed till he came on his present farm in 1860, having purchased 320 acres in 1847, for $1.25 per acre; subsequently sold eighty acres to Mr. Rafer. Mr. Wright has no family. Democrat.
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