WI BIO - Green Lake Co - WRIGHT, Stillman

History of Northern Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical, 1881, vol I, p 359

Stillman WRIGHT, owner and proprietor of the Golden Sheaf flouring mill, 
Berlin [Green Lake County, Wisconsin], was born in 1827 in Onondaga County, 
New York, a son of Samuel W. and Sarah (WILKE) WRIGHT, who were natives of 
Vermont. He came West in 1843, locating in Dodge County [Wisconsin], where 
he engaged in farming. He came to this city [Berlin, Green Lake County] in 
1853, and kept the Union Hotel nearly two years, and also was in the 
mercantile business three years in Markesan [Green Lake County], and for ten 
years in the general produce business.

The mill [Golden Sheaf flouring mill in Berlin] was built in 1866 by Carhart, 
Dorman & Company, Mr. WRIGHT taking an interest in 1868. The mill is 
furnished with the latest improved machinery, gradual reduction rollers, 
etc., and has a capacity of 200 bushels per day. Mr. WRIGHT makes his own 
cooperage [barrels] and employs twenty-five men. The products are sold in 
nearly every Eastern city, and the company also manufactures largely for 
export trade, shipping to Liverpool and Glasgow. The motive power of the 
mill is a 150 horsepower engine. 

In 1854 in Rock County [Wisconsin] he [Stillman WRIGHT] was married to Miss 
Mary D. HUMPHRY. They [Stillman and Mary D. (HUMPHRY) WRIGHT] have two sons: 
(1) Charles H., who assists in the business; and (2) Frederick, the 
youngest. Mr. WRIGHT was the first City Treasurer [of Berlin, Green Lake 
County], and has been School Commissioner several terms.

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