Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Rev. John Alexander Wright




Husband Rev. John Alexander Wright 1 2 3

           Born: 1 Jan 1845 2
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         Father: Joshua Wright (1822-      ) 2 3 4 5 6
         Mother: Sarah Catherine White (Abt 1826-1868) 1 2 3





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General Notes: Husband - Rev. John Alexander Wright


He was a student in Washington College, when the Civil War broke out, and enlisted in Company D, 140th Pa. Regiment and served to the end of the war and was wounded at Chancellorsville. He was graduated from Allegheny College in 1868, taught three years in the west, and preached continuously in the Methodist Episcopal church in Ohio thereafter.

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Sources


1 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 979.

2 F. S. Reader, Some Pioneers of Washington County, Pa. - A Family History (New Brighton, PA: F. S. Reader & Son, 1902), Pg 28.

3 Unknown, History of the Joseph Wright Family (Privately published, 1914), Pg 8.

4 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 889.

5 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 976.

6 —, History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia and Chicago: A. Warner & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 685.


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