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Henry Wilson Wright, editor of the Verona Independent, is a native of Indiana, born in Owen County, April 18, 1847, and is the son of Abram and Ellen (Gardner) Wright, natives of New York and Kentucky, respectively. The Wrights trace their ancestry back to an early settlement of this family in New York State. The Gardners were of old Kentucky stock. Henry Wilson Wright was reared in Southern Indiana, and after attaining his majority was ordained an elder in the Methodist Episcopal Church, serving it as traveling minister for about nine years. His father was also a traveling minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. H. W. Wright afterward went to Iowa and located at Seymour, where he edited the Seymour Enterprise in an able and efficient manner for one year. He then edited the West Point Post, at West Point, for four years, and in 1884 he moved to Lawrence County, Mo., where he established his present journal, which he has ably conducted to the present time. He is president of the board of public instruction for Verona, and is now serving his third term. During the late unpleasantness between the North and South he served for three years in Company C, Ninety-first Indiana Volunteer Infantry, Union army, and served in all the important campaigns of Sherman’s and Thomas’ army. He was married in New Philadelphia, Ind., to Miss Mary T. Taylor, daughter of Isaac N. and Mary (Martin) Taylor, both natives of Indiana. To Mr. and Mrs. Wright were born five children, two sons and three daughters: Edith B., Arthur, Laura, Watson and Mary. Mr. Wright is a member of the Masonic fraternity and J. M. Baird Post, G. A. R.