WI BIO - Dodge Co - WRIGHT, Abel

History of Dodge County, Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical Company, 
1880, p 643

Abel WRIGHT, farmer, Section 8 [Chester Township, Dodge County, Wisconsin], 
P. O. Waupun [a border community in both Dodge and Fond du Lac Counties], was 
born 09 July 1820 in Albany County, New York, son of Lawrence and Rachel 
WRIGHT. He [Abel WRIGHT] came to [the Territory of] Wisconsin in the fall of 
1843, arriving 03 October [1843]. In March 1844 he located on the farm he 
now occupies, in the Town of Chester [Dodge County, Territory of Wisconsin].

On 24 March 1847 Mr. [Abel] WRIGHT was married in Schenectady County, New 
York, to [his first wife] Mary Ann, daughter of Nathaniel and Content 
TOMPKINS. She [Mary Ann (TOMPKINS) WRIGHT] died on 25 January 1848 in the 
Town of Chester [Dodge County, Territory of] Wisconsin. [Statehood was 
granted to Wisconsin on 29 May 1848.]

He [Abel WRIGHT] was married the second time on 24 July 1850 in Chester 
[Chester Township, Dodge County, Wisconsin] to Mrs. Eunice Jane (COOPER) 
TRIVETT, daughter of James and Esther COOPER, natives of New York. She 
[Eunice Jane WRIGHT] died 22 March 1862. Mr. [Abel] WRIGHT has four 
children: Tompkins, Mary Ann, Amlinda and Samuel P. He owns 155 acres of 
land, worth about $60 per acre, and pays considerable attention to stock 
raising. [If making three assumptions (that the marriage and death dates are 
correct, that no children were born out of wedlock, and that the first birth 
was not multiple), then the one child possible from the first marriage would 
have been born between the fall/winter of 1847 and 25 January 1848, and the 
issue of the second marriage would have been born between 1851 and 22 March 
1862.] 

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