My Genealogy Hound

L. S. WRIGHT. The subject of our sketch was born in Highland county, Ohio, Nov. 9, 1847. His parents were of German and Irish descent, their ancestors having immigrated to Virginia and North Carolina during the eighteenth century. The grandfather of L. S. Wright was born in Virginia, and was taken by his parents to Jefferson county, Tenn., in the year 1784. His father removed to Ohio in the year 1802, and soon after died, near the falls of Paint Creek. The grandfather of our subject soon after purchased of Gen. Nathaniel Massie the farm on which he spent the remainder of his days, dying at the good old age of eighty-six. His son, John, the father of L. S. Wright, was born in Highland county, Ohio, March 18, 1818. He has been a practical farmer all his life, and is now living on his farm in Highland county, Ohio. The subject of our sketch lived on a farm until the year 1874, when he removed to Hillsborough, the county seat of Highland county, and engaged in the practice of the law. In the year 1877 he removed to Carthage, Mo., and engaged in the practice of the law. During the following year he purchased a half interest in the title abstract business of McGregor & Ball, to which he devoted most of his time and attention until the spring of 1881, when he removed to the northeast corner of Jasper county, and engaged in the agricultural business. He is now the owner of 520 acres of land in Jasper and Barton counties. He has one of the most beautiful locations in the Southwest, in three miles of Golden City, Mo., and is surrounded by all that contributes to make home pleasant and life desirable, and believes in enjoying life as we go along. He has had five brothers and sisters, two only of whom are now living. He has been a consistent Republican all his life, believing that party is the party of progress and of development. Mr. Wright was married in the year 1872 to Miss Belle Woodmansee, daughter of David Woodmansee, of Carthage. He is at present farming quite extensively, devoting his chief interests to the raising of wheat and corn. He has demonstrated practically that the prairie can be made to blossom as the rose and that the ground can be made to groan under its weight of golden grain.