John S. Wright and Emma Goodwin

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Husband John S. Wright ¹

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           Born: 12 Mar 1855 - Vinton, Benton Co, IA 1
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         Father: Rev. John Wright (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Mary Ann Wild (      -      ) 1

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       Marriage: Abt 1879

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Wife Emma Goodwin ²

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           Born: Abt 1859
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Children

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1 F Edith Wright ²

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         Spouse: Walter Cubbon (      -      ) 2

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2 M Frank G. Wright ³

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           Born: 6 Mar 1884 - Diamond, Plum Twp, Venango Co, PA
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         Buried:  - Sunville Cemetery, Sunville, Plum Twp, Venango Co, PA 4

         Spouse: Susan Margaret Beatty (1886-1944) 3
           Marr: 1910 - ? Venango Co, PA

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3 M Lee Wright ²

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4 F Sylvia Wright ²

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         Spouse: Gleen Collins (      -      ) 2

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5 F Mary M. Wright ²

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         Spouse: Robert Lee Hines (      -      ) 2
           Marr: 1916 - ? Venango Co, PA

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General Notes: Husband - John S. Wright

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He was a boy when he accompanied his parents to Venango County, Pennsylvania, in 1867. He had public school advantages during his early years, and when a youth worked with his father in the sawmill at Diamond, where he was employed until removing to his own home in 1884. The tract of 140 acres was then in the woods, lying in the Lake creek valley two and a half miles northwest of Cooperstown, and though favorably situated had not been improved. Eventually he had eighty acres cleared, with substantial buildings, and was profitably engaged in general farming. For two years he operated a sawmill on the place, and in 1901 he became interested in oil production on the Hindman farm, one mile distant, buying a share in a lease, but the work was abandoned after several dry holes were struck. Besides the work he put in on his own land, Mr. Wright helped to improve the community from an agricultural standpoint by his activity in the Patrons of Husbandry, being worthy master of the Sugar Creek Grange and lecturer in the Pomona Grange. He long supported the principles of the Prohibition Party, and was twice a candidate for the State legislature on its ticket, running in 1904 and 1914, during both years making a vigorous campaign all over the county; on the first occasion he spoke at thirty-eight different places in the county, and polled the largest vote received by any candidate on his ticket. In 1910 he canvassed the county as Prohibition candidate for jury commissioner and was elected for a term of four years. In 1917 he took a prominent part in the campaign of Mr. Bechlin, Congressional candidate-the only member of Congress to be elected that year. Mr. Wright served as justice of the peace and tax collector. During his twenty years of service as justice of the peace he used his influence so effectively to persuade litigants to settle their cases out of court that only one case actually came to trial before him.
Mr. Wright had a good library and always enjoyed reading, particularly ancient history and the Scriptures, and he had the reputation of being the best Bible student in his Conference. During his young manhood he took a four years' course preparatory to entering the U. B. ministry, but would not accept ordination when ready for it, though he was always one of the most zealous workers in that denomination in his neighborhood. For seventeen years or more he was teacher of the Young Folks' Bible class in the local church, and he committed the normal course to memory. His wife was also active in both church and Sunday school. He was a member of the I. O. O. F. lodge at Cooperstown, passed all the chairs in that body, and was representative to the grand lodge.

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General Notes: Wife - Emma Goodwin

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from Diamond, Plum Twp, Venango Co, PA

1 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 828.

2 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 829.

3 Helen M. Snyder, Genealogy of Robert Beatty 1760-1823 (Franklin, PA: Self-published.), Pg 23.

4 Venango County Historical Society, Venango County Pennsylvania Cemetery Records and Early Church Histories, Vol. 8, Plum Township (Franklin, PA: Venango County Historical Society, 2000), Pg 75.