WI BIO - Winnebago Co - WRIGHT, L. B.

History of Northern Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical, 1881, vol II, p 
1167

L. B. WRIGHT, filer for Radford Brothers, was born 16 April 1840 in Tioga 
County, New York, son of Joseph and Phoebe (NEAL) WRIGHT, who came to 
Wisconsin in 1858, settling in Oshkosh [Winnebago County], where they still 
live. On 22 September 1881 they [Joseph and Phoebe (NEAL) WRIGHT] celebrated 
their golden wedding anniversary. [The "Daily Northwestern" newspaper 
published in Oshkosh at that time may have an account of the golden wedding 
anniversary story.]

On 16 April 1861 L. B. WRIGHT was married in Fremont, Waupaca County, 
Wisconsin, to Miss Susan ISBEL. They [L. B. and Susan (ISBEL) WRIGHT] have 
two children: Custis Joseph and Charles Henry. Mr. L. B. WRIGHT engaged in 
saw mills as a young man, setting for a short time, and then filing and 
sawing since 1862, with the exception of two summers he was away from 
Oshkosh. Mr. WRIGHT has been with the present firm [Radford Brothers] since 
1880. 

Submitted by Cathy Kubly