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NICHOLAS M., born August 12, 1820, in Hagerstown, Maryland, was mar- ried there to Sarah Angle. They reside in Fairview, Fulton county, Illinois.
ELLENOR.4, born Nov. 14, 1822, in Maryland, was married in Springfield, Illi- nois, to William Kreigh. She died, and Mr. Kreigh resides at Farmington, Illi- nois.
SUSANNAH, born Dec. 12, 1823, in Maryland, came to Springfield with her father, and was married Nov. 27, 1845, at Fairview, Fulton county, Illinois, to Wil- liam Davis, who was born Nov. 10, 1823, in Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, and
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moved to Fulton county, Illinois, with his father in 1837. They had seven children. SARAH R., born Oct. 29, 1847, near Fairview, Illinois, was married in Prairie City, Sept. 20, 1867, to Samuel Barber. They have four children, MINNIE B., LE- TITIA E., ANNIE and MARY E., and live in Peoria, Illinois. JOHN E., born March, 8, 1851; SIMON G., born August 1, 1853, WILLIAM H., born Sept. 10, 1855, died June 23, 1857; GEORGE H., born Dec. 14, 1857; EDWARD, born Dec. 28, IS59, and MATTIE, born June 26, 1862. All the living reside with their parents. Mr. and Mrs. Davis reside near Ludlow, Champaign county, Illinois.
MARY ELIZABETH, born Jan. 28, 1829, in Hagerstown, Maryland, came to Springfield with her parents in 1837, and was married there August, I$49, to Dr. Henry Wohlgemuth. They had six children, two of whom died young. MARY ELLEN died in her twenty- second year. HENRY, WILLIAM and MINNIE reside with their parents in Springfield, Illinois. Dr. Wohlgemuth was born May 22, 1822, in Hanover, Ger- many. He commenced the study of medi- cine there, and after coming to Amarica, and his arrival in Springfield, in Novem- ber, 1845, continued his studies and com- menced practice in Springfield in 1846. Hle graduated in 1854 at the Eclectic Med- ical Institute at Cincinnati, Ohio. At the organization of the State Eclectic Medical Association of Illinois, he was elected president of the same, and is also a men- ber of the National Eclectic Medical As- sociation. He was elected city physician of Springfield in 1856, and in 1861 and '62 county physician. In 1863, '64 and ,65 he was a member of the city council, and was a member of the board of education for 1866. In :865 and '66 Dr. Wohlgemuth, Colonel John Williams and Charles W. Matheny composed the board of commis- sioners who constructed the Springfield water works. Dr. Wohlgemuth was a member, and most of the time president, of the board of managers of Oak Ridge cemetery for twelve years, and it is but simple justice to say that it is largely owing to his persevering and intelligent labors that this piece of land has been changed from a rough and forbidding harbor for wild animals to one of the most beautiful cities of the dead in all our country.
JACOB H., born Jan. 21, IS31, in Maryland, died March 2, 1862, in Spring- field, Illinois.
WILLIAM JOSHUA, born Nov. 5, IS35, died Feb. 25, 1837.
MARGARET A., born April IS, IS38, in Hagerstown, Maryland, was married in Springfield to Judge John Race. They reside in Decatur, Illinois.
JOHN F., born August 5, 1842, in Springfield, was married Dec. 1, 1864, to Virginia A. Sperry, who was born Sept. 15, 1847, in Rushville, Illinois. They have one child, MARY A., and live in Spring- field, Illinois.
CHARLES W., born Feb. 22, 1851, in Springfield, dicd there Nov. 16, 1864.
EMERY, born April 28, 1853, in Springfield, was married Feb. 23, 1876, to Anna M. Fosselman, daughier of J. B. Fosselman-druggist-of Springfield. Mr. and Mrs. Wolgamot live in Spring- field, Illinois.
John Wolgamot and Mrs. Susannah Wolgamot both died in Springfield, Ill.
WALGAMOT, SAMUEL, born in 1776, in Washington county, Maryland, was married there to Mary Beard, who was born Jan. 12, 1791, in the same county. They had four children in Maryland, and moved across the state line into Franklin county, Pennsylvania, where three children were born. They returned to Maryland, and from there came to San- gamon county, Illinois. They were seven weeks on the way, arriving May 30, 1840, in what is now Woodside township. Of their children-
ELIZABETH, born Jan. 5, IS12, in Maryland, was married November, IS37, to Samuel Stover. See his name.
MARY, born March 3, 1813, in Mary- land, was married April, ISto, to George Baugh, and died Oct. 24, 1840, in Sanga- mon county, Illinois.
CATHARINE, born Dec. 1, 1815, in Pennsylvania, was married in Maryland, January, 1840, to William E. Redman. See his name.
JOHN B., born April 5, 1819, in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, was mar- ried in Sangamon county, Illinois, Jan. 19, 1843, to Anna M. Todd. They had one living child, MARY J., born Jan. 5, 1844, in Sangamon county, was married Oct. 26, 1869, to John M. Baugh, who was born Jan. 14, 1847. They had two chil-
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dren, MILTON A. and BRYAN G. Mr. Baugh was killed by lightning, May 28, 1874, while working in his cornfield, near Woodside, Sangamon county, Illinois. His widow and children reside there. Mrs. Anna M. Wolgamot died July 28, 1846, and John B. Wolgamot was married Oct. 24, 1854, to Emily E. Wood. They had seven children, three of whom died under seven years of age. ANNIE M., ELIZABETH E , JOHN R. and BAR- BARA reside with their father. Mrs. Emily E. Walgamot died Feb. 21, 1869, and John B. Walgamot was married Aug. IS, 1874, to Mrs. R. J. Widup, and resides at Woodside, Sangamon county, Illinois.
RARBARA, born March 25, 1820, in Pennsylvania, was married in Sangamon county, Illinois, to Adam Johnson. Sec his name in Omissions.
SAMUEL, fun., born Feb. 12, 1823, in Pennsylvania, married Lydia Cressy, who died, and he married Eliza Mahar. They have one child, KATE, and reside near Ottawa, Kansas.
ISABEL, born May 1, 1825, in Penn- sylvania, married Seldon C. Whitney. They have five children, BARBARA A., DAVID S., BETTIE, KATIE and MAY, and reside near Ottawa, Kansas.
Samuel Walgamot died Sept. 3, 186S, and his widow died Jan. 21, 1873, both in Woodside township, Sangamon county, Illinois.
WOMACK, GEORGE B., was born December, 1817, in Butler coun- ty, Kentucky, and brought by his parents to Wayne county, Illinois, in IS29. He came to Sangamon county in 1839, and married Jane Inslee. They had two chil- dren in Sangamon county-
NANCY C. resides with her sister, Mrs. Bell.
LOUISA L. married Stephen Bell. See his name.
Mrs. Jane Womack died in Sangamon county, and John B. Womack returned to Wayne county, married Sasan Brown and had four children. He died in Wayne county about 1859.
WOLTZ, JOHN C., was born June 5, ISIS, in Shepherdstown, Virginia. He started west partly to visit his sister, Mrs. John B. Weber. He traveled by stage to Pittsburg, thence by water the whole length of the Ohio river, up the Mississippi river to St. Louis, thence to
and up the Illinois river to Naples, where he ate his first meal in Illinois of corn bread and venison, which he thought was the best food he ever tasted. He traveled on the first railroad built in Illinois to New Berlin, and walked from there on the tim- bers, four inches wide, laid ready to re- ceive the flat rails, to Springfield, arriving Nov. 7, 1840. Before he obtained employ- ment his finances were reduced to three ten cent pieces. He worked nearly two years at carpenter and cabinet work, most. ly at Riverton, without receiving a cent of money, all the time vowing that when he did obtain enough he would leave the country, but an arrow from cupid's bow wounded him before he obtained the re- quisite amount, and he is now one of the successful farmers of Sangamon county. John C. Woltz was married Dec. 7, 1843, to Sidney R. Halbert. They had seven living children, namely-
VIRGINIA C., born Nov. 26, 1844, in Sangamon county, married March 2, 1865, to William T. Summers, who was born May 15, 1845, in Bracken county, Kentucky. They have one child, WAL- TER, and reside two miles northwest of Dawson, Illinois.
SARAH M., born Oct. 19, 1846, mar- ried Dec. 24, 1869, to John M. Riddle. See his name.
YULIA E. resides with her parents. FILMES P. died April 17, 1869, in his sixteenth year.
J. CHARLES, MAGGIE H, and ALICE IDA, reside with their parents nearly equi-distant from Barclay, Daw- son and Riverton, Sangamon county, Illi- nois-1874.
WOOD, SENECA, was born Oct. 1, 1806, in Springfield, Massachusetts, and came to Island Grove, Sangamon county, Illinois, in the fall of 1831. He was married there in January, IS34, to Sarah M. Todd, who was born in IS17, in Bourbon county, Kentucky. They had eight children, four of whom died young. Of the other four-
CLARA L., born in 1837, married William Wardell. He died, leaving one child. Mrs. Wardell and her daughter, ALICE, reside in Buffalo, Sangamon county, Illinois.
SENECA W., born March 7, 1840, in Sangamon county. He was married December, 1868, to Molly J. Allgate.
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She died Nov. 17, 1872, and he was mar- ried Dec. 14, 1873, to Mary J. Allgate. They live in Springfield, Illinois. Mr. Wood is conductor on the Capital street railroad.
LEWIS ARTHUR, born in IS46, in Sangamon county, married Elizabeth Hillman. They have two children, FRANK and LEWIS, and live in Springfield, Illinois.
KATIE resides with her parents.
Seneca Wood spent a few years in farming, then kept a hotel and stage stand in Berlin, was postmaster there five years, and justice of peace four years. In IS4S he moved to Springfield, where he now resides-1876.
WOOD, WILLIAM, was born October, 1794, in Knox county, Tennes- see. He went to Madison county, Illinois, when he was a young man, and was there married, in 1814, to Polly Cox. They moved to what became Sangamon county, arriving in the fall of ISIS, in what is now Auburn township. They had ten chil- dren-
LUCINDA married Andrew Gates. See his name.
JOHN married Rebecca Bowen, moved to Texas, and died there.
JAMES went to Texas, married Electa Jenkins, and lives there.
EDWARD married Amanda Pitzer, and died in Illinois.
SALLY married Peter Gates. See his name.
GILBERT, married, and lives in Missouri.
MARGARET married Juseph Camp- bell, and lives in Virden, Illinois.
WILLIAM married Jane Bristow, and lives in Iowa.
GEORGE married Isabella Easom, and lives in Virden, Illinois.
EV A died in Virden, unmarried.
William Wood and his wife both died in Sangamon county, Illinois.
WORKMAN, JOHN, was born about 1787 or 'SS, in Alleganey county, Maryland, married in Tennessee to Lydia Bilyeu. They had twenty-two children, two of whom died in infancy. They were nearly all sons. Some of the children married in Tennessee. The family became Mormons and all moved in a body, the parents, their twenty children, and nearly as many grandchildren, through Sanga-
mon county to Nauvoo, Illinois, about IS42. Some of the children left the Mor- mons at Nauvoo, but the principal part of the family went to Salt Lake city. Five of the sons became Mormon preachers, have been missionaries to England, and are yet with the Mormons.
WORKMAN, STEPHEN born in 1797, in Alleganey county, Mary- land. He went with his parents to Bour- bon county, Kentucky, and there married Effie Maddox, moved to Overton county, Tennessee, with three children, about IS27. In 1829 he moved with his brother William to Sangamon county. In 1831 he moved to Kentucky, and in 1834 re- turned to Sangamon county, and settled one and a half miles south of Loami, and a few years later to Christian county, Illi- nois.
WORKMAN, WILLIAM, brother to John, Stephen, David and James. He was born April S, 1799, in Alleganey county, Marylad, and was taken by his parents about ISog, to Bourbon coun- ty, Ky. He was married March 23, 1819, in Overton county, Tennessee, to Sarah Bilyeu. She was born Nov. 26, 1Sor, in Green county, Kentucky. They had four children in Tennessee, and moved to San- gamon county, Illinois, arriving Oct. I, IS29, in what is now Loami township, south of Lick creek, where seven children were born, two of whom died young. Of the other nine-
PETER, born May 24, 1820, in Tennessee, married in Sangamon county, Jan. 28, 1841, to Sally Jane Taylor. They had thirteen children, five died young. NANCY married Samuel Workman. He enlisted August, 1861, in Co. B, 30th Ill. Inf., and died at Cairo, Feb. 13, 1862, leaving one child, SAMUEL M. His widow married Jasper Bilyeu, and lives in Chris- tian county, Illinois. LOUISA J. mar- ried David Hays, has three children, and lives in Christian county. SIMON P. married Fanny J. Short. He is in Co. H, 16th U. S. Inf. His wife and two chil- dren live with their grandmother, Hug- gins-1874. MARY E. married Samuel Harbour. See his name. They live near Loami, Illinois. JACOB W., AL- MYRA, STEPHEN and CAROLINE live with their parents, two miles south of Loami, Sangamon county, Illinois.
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JACOB, born Dec. S, 1822, in Tennes- see, married in Sangamon county, March 19, 1846, to Nancy Taylor. They have eight children. WILLIAM S. married Elizabeth Williams, has two children, and lives in Shelby county, Illinois. JACOB H. married Nancy Harbour, have one child, DENNIS, and live near Loami, Illi- nois. STEPHEN, GEORGE P., PETER D., JOHN H., NANCY J., and CHARLEY, reside with their parents, two and three-quarter miles south of Loami, Illinois.
JOHN, born July 6, 1824, in Overton county, Tennessee, married in Sangamon county, Sept. 23, 1850, to Caroline Camp- bell. They had nine children, two died young. SARAH E. and JOHN W. re- side with their parents. KATIE A. mar- ried Simon P. Campbell. See his name. JOSIAH W., LUCINA, LILLIE C. and MARY live with their parents, five miles west of Chatham, Illinois.
STEPHEN, born Jan. 20, 1827, in Tennessee. married in Sangamon county, Feb. 22, 1847, to Mary S. Hays. He en- listed August, 1861, for three years, in Co. B, 3otn Ill. Inf., was discharged on ac- count of physical disability, December, 1862. He moved to Harrison county, Missouri, in September, 1865. He was preparing to return to Illinois, and was murdered April 2, 1869. The object of the murderer was robbery, but he failed in that. Mr. W. left a widow and seven children. SALLY married George Rav, and died in Missouri. ELIZABETH married George C. Dean, a native of Sara- toga county, New York. They have one child, CHILOE MI., and live in Loami town- ship. Mr. Dean served eighteen months in Co. F. Ist Reg. Mich. Sharpshooters, and was honorably discharged July 28, 1865. ADDISON B., PETER, SOPHRONIA, EMILY and STE- PHEN D. live with their mother, near Loami, Sangamon county, Illinois.
DAVID, born March 22, 1829, in Sangamon county, married Feb. 6, 1849, to Julia Bilyeu, and died March 16, 1849. Ilis widow married Richard Workman.
ELIZABETH, born May 23, 1831, in Sangamon county, married Josiah W. Campbell. See his name.
ISAAC, born August 7, 1834, in San- gamon county, married Feb. 14, 1856, to Elizabeth Workman. They had three
children. SALLY married Peter Har- bour. Sce his name. JOHN and MARTHA reside with their father. Mrs. W. died Sept. 25, 1860, and he was married June 29, 1862, to Martha A. Wedding, and have six children-WIL- LIAM H., ISAAC, MAYHEW, JO- SEPH, MARY A. and ELIZABETH and reside two miles south of Loami, San- gamon county, Illinois.
WILLIAM B., born August 14, IS37, in Sangamon county, married May 22, 1857, to Lydia Bilyeu, who was born May 5, 1845, in Overton county, Tennessee. They had seven children. The first, third and fifth died, SUSAN, in infancy, ALICE, at five, and POLLY, at two years of age. SARAH A., WILLIAM F., CAROLINE and FRANCES re- side with their parents, one mile south of Loami, Illinois. By comparing dates it will be seen that Mrs. Workman was only twelve years and seventeen days old when she was married. Their first child was born Sept. 22, 1858, when she was thirteen years and four months old. Miss Sarah A., their eldest daughter, has quite a talent for music and plays well on the piano-1874.
SAMUEL, born Oct. 17, 1845, mar- ried Oct. 16, 1863, to Emily Hays. . They had two children. She and the children died, and he married March 4, 1867, to Anna Harbour. They have two living children, JENNIE MAY and KATIE, and reside one mile south of Loami, Illinois.
William Workman and wife live on the farm where they settled in 1829. It is one mile south of Loami, Sangamon county, Illinois.
WORKMAN, DAVID, born Sept. 10, 1804, in Alleganey county, Mary- land, raised in Bourbon county, Kentucky, and married in Overton' county, Tennes- see, to Lydia Bilyeu. They had two chil- dren in Tennessee, moved to Sangamon county, in 1829, and settled near his brother William in what is now Loami township. They had twelve children in Sangamon county. Of their fourteen children-
DIANA, born in Tennessee, married in Sangamon county to Benjaman Workman (no relative), have five children, and reside near Fort Scott, Kansas.
JACOB, born in Tennessee, married in Sangamon county to Anna Harbour,
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have ten children, and live near Fort Scott, Kansas.
NANCY, born about 1830, in Sanga- mon county, married John Bilyeu. They have several children, and live near Seio, Linn county, Oregon.
MICHAEL, born 1831 or '32, in San- gamon county, married Mrs. Julia A. Workman, whose maiden name was Bil- yeu. She had four children, and died Jan. 12, 1859. He married Hannah Workman, a distant relative. They have five ehil- dren, and live in Christian county, near Mowequa, Shelby county, Illinois.
MINERVA, born Oct. 23, 1833, in Sangamon county, married Wilham P. Carson. See his name.
SARAH married Sampson Bilyeu, and died, leaving one child.
ELIZABETH married John Carson. See his name .. They have several chil- dren, and live near Fort Scott, Kansas.
PETER, born in Sangamon county, married Martha Workman. He enlisted in 1861 for three years in the 11th Mo. Inf., was accidentally shot through the body in camp, and died at home in Sanga- mon county, Nov. 18, 1865, leaving a widow and three children, who reside in Christian county, Illinois.
DAVID, born in Sangamon county, married February, 1861, to Amelia Bilyeu, in Sangamon county, moved at once to Overton county, Tennessee, was there pressed into the rebel army, and was placed in command of a wagon train. Watching his opportunity, he cut four mules from a wagon, swam three of them across Green river, and succeeded in reaching the Union lines. He visited his old home in Sanga- mon county, enlisted in Co. B, 30th Ill. Inf. for three years, in August, 1862, and died at Jackson, Tennessee, Oct. 22, 1862.
LYDIA married in Sangamon county to Thomas Large, have several children, and live near Fort Scott, Kansas.
MARY died, aged nine years.
WILLIAM R., born Sept. 10, 1849, in Sangamon county, married Sept. 16, IS69, to Elizabeth J. Shubert. She was horn Feb 11, 1855, in Ripley county, In- diana. They have two children, DAVID E. and JAMES M., and live near Loami, Illinois.
HANNAH, born in Sangamon county, married Robert Wilson, have two children, and reside near Fort Scott, Kansas.
ISAAC, born in Sangamon county, lives with his brother, Michael.
David Workman died Feb. 20, 1865, and Mrs. Lydia Workman died Nov. 26, 1866, both in Sangamon county, Illinois.
WORKMAN, JAMES, born Dec. 17, 1806, in Alleganey county, Mary- land, was taken about iSio to Bourbon county, Kentucky, by his father, Abraham Workman, who was an elder brother to John, Stephen, William and David. When James was a young man he went from Bourbon county to Overton county, Ten- nessee, and was there married to Elizabeth Bilyeu, had one child, and moved to San- gamon county, Illinois, arriving in the fall of 1830, in what is now Loami township, where one child was born. In 1831 he re- turned to Tennessee, where one child was born and Mrs. Workman died. Mr. W. married there to Lydia Bilyeu. He moved in 184: to southwest Missouri, and in 1843 returned to Tennessee, where his wife died without children. Mr. Workman married there to Eliza Rayburn, returned to San- gamon county, and settled where he did in 1830. At the close of the rebellion he returned to Tennessee. Three years later he came back to Sangamon county. He had seven children by his third wife. Three died young. Of his children by the first marriage-
JAMES ABRAHAMI, born Dec. 16, 1827, in Overton county, Tennessee, raised partly in Sangamon county, married in Tennessee, May 29, 1847, to Jemima Kitchen, and had four children, JAMES M., SARAH E., THOMAS C. and JE- MIMA E. Mrs. Jemima Workman died Nov. 10, IS58, and Mr. W. was married May 20, 1860, to Adaline Buek. They have five living children, WILLIAM D., NANCY A., REBECCA A., EMMA E. and GEORGE H. Mr. Workman was a justice of the peace and tax collector in Overton county. Many of his loyal friends had been killed, and his own life threatened by the Ku-Klux, so he left there and returned in 1866 to the vicinity of Loami, Sangamon county, and now-1874 -lives in Christian county, near Mowe - qua, Shelby county, Illinois.
REBECCA, born August 16, 1830, in Sangamon county, married Sept. 13, 1849, to Solomon Shetter, had eight living children. WILLIAM was killed, aged 15 years, by a fall from a horse. ARISSA
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married James Stanton, and resides near Loami, Illinois. NANCY E., MINIZA J., ANNA I., ELIZA A., ALBERT A., and EPSEY C. reside near Loami, Illi- nois.
SAMUEL E., born Feb. 9, 1833, in Tennessee, married Nov. 15, 1851, to Isa- bel Kitchen, and have seven children, SARAH E., LYDIA J., JAMES D., NANCY A., ISABEL and MARY L., and reside one mile south of Loami, Illi- nois. The living children of the third wife, GEORGE W., WILLIAM B., BARNEY and DELIA A. M. reside with their parents.
In 1872 James Workman and wife, with their four children, moved to Christian county, near Mowequa, Shelby county, Illinois.
WRIGHT, CHARLES, was born July 21, 1799, at Bernardstown, Massachusetts, brought up in Vermont, and came with his brother, Erastus, to Springfield, arriving Nov. 21, 1821. He taught school a few years in Sangamon county, at one time in the neighborhood of the Drennans, on Sugar creek.
He obtained a contract for surveying government lands on the Wachita river, went south, and worked at it two years. He had his contract almost completed, when he died of malignant billious fever, at Monroe, Louisiana, Sept. 14, 1828.
WRIGHT, ERASTUS, was born Jan. 21, 1779, at Bernardstown, Massachusetts. The family is a very ancient one for New England. Erastus left a history of the family, which he al- ways kept written up, giving the genealogy of the family for nearly two and a half centuries, beginning with Deacon Samuel Wright, who came from England and settled at Springfield, Massa- chusetts, in 1641.
The parents of Erastus Wright left Bernardstown, Massachusetts, and went to Derby, Vermont, in ISo2, that being at the time pioneer ground. Erastus re- mained with his father on the farm, with no other advantages for education than the country schools afforded, until the spring of 1821, when he started west, in company with his brother, Charles. They traveled by such means as the country afforded before the days of canals and railroads, until they reached Buffalo, New York. There they embarked on a
schooner for Fort Dearborn, now Chicago, Illinois. . From Fort Dearborn they started on foot, making a preliminary survey of the route now occupied by the Illinois and Michigan canal, touching the Illinois river near where LaSalle now stands. They then descended the Illinois river to Fort Clark, now Peoria, and from there to Elkhart Grove, where Judge Latham resided. On their way south they stopped on Fancy creek, in what is now Sangamon county, at the house of John Dixon, who was one of the earliest settlers in this county, but who afterwards went north and laid out the town, now city, of Dixon, on Rock river. From there they came to Springfield, arriving Nov. 21, 1821. It had been selected as the county seat on the 10th of April, before, but there had not then been any town laid out. A log court house had just been completed. Mr. Wright describes the town, as it first appeared to him, in these words:
" Elijah Iles had about five hundred dollars' worth of goods in a log cabin, ten by fourteen; Charles R. Matheney and Jonathan Kelly lived in log cabins not a quarter of a mile distant. The Indians- Kickapoos and Potawatamies-often came along in squads, and when others had built cabins near, called the place 'log town.""
Mr. Wright went with Judge Latham from Springfield to Elkhart Grove and taught school there during the winter of 1821-2. He bought a claim of Levi Ellis and entered it as soon as it came into the market in 1823. From notes on the fly- leaf of a New Testament, in the hand- writing of Mr. Wright, he says: "I built the first frame house in what is now the city of Springfield."
In 1824 he built a park, and traded eighty acres of land in Schuyler county for an elk. Old citizens remember that Mr. Wright rode that elk, and drove it in harness, the same as a horse, although he says in a note that he was rough to ride, and not very kind in the harness. Mr. Wright spent three or four years in the lead mining region of Illinois and Wiscon- sin, and while there laid out the town of Mineral Point, Wisconsin, using a bed cord for his chain. He was married June 15, 1831, in Fulton county, to Jane Gard- ner, whose parents were from Saratoga, New York. Mr. and Mrs. Wright had three children.
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