Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1913-07-31
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DEATH OF MRS. WRIGHT
Barabo0

Mrs. Elizabeth Anne Wright passed
peacefully away at 8:45 Tuesday even
ing, July 20, 1918, at the home of her
younger daughter, Mrs. j. E. English,
after a short illness incident to her ad-
vanced age She was born at Livings-
ton. New Jersey, May 5, 1925, and her
long, well spent life has been bless
ing to all who knew and loved her.
When she was nine years of
a &c her father, Marshfeld Steele,
moved his family to Laurence
Vile, New York, village
nesting at the foot of the Uppanbar
mountains. This is part of New
York justly famous for beautiful
mountain scenery. Here she grew to
womanhood, the family returning to
New jersey when she was seventeen.
On May 27, 1916, she was married to
John E. Wright of her native village
who was only few months her senior.
He gave scientific and popular lectures
on physics and chemistry, chiefly at
educational institutions and travelled
extensively through the states. On
many of these lecture tours she accom-
panied him and the early years of
their married life were spent in travel.
Having thus accumulated modest
fortune, they came to Wisconsin in
1851 and bought the Count Haraszthy
estate at Prairie du Sac and consider
able property in various parts of Wis
consin. At Prairie du Sac Mr.. Wright
erected large lumber mill by the river
which did flourishing business. A
heavy loss was incurred when this
mill burned down in 1861. For many
years the great red brick chimney
stood a lonely sentinel on the river
bank. Mr.. Wright was great sports
man and enjoyed the fine hunting and
fishing which Wisconsin woods and
streams afforded in those early days.
He was accidentally shot while duck
hunting.
The best surgeons of the day were
summoned, among them Dr.. Irwin
of Lodi, who had Just returned from
his post as army surgeon, Che was
grandfather of DR.. ]. III. Irwin of Bar
aboo). Mr.. Wright was mortally
wounded and on the third day he
babe his family and friends an affec-
tomato farewell and expired October
Z, 1852.
Mrs. Wright was left with three
small children, q son and two daugh-
ters, to whom she was most devoted
mother. Through fires and unfortu-
nate investments she met with serious
financial losses and had many bust
ness worries, but her ready SYM
pathy, kindly help and hospitable
home were ever at the service of her
friends, and her home was open to her
numerous kinsfolk on any and all oc-
casslons.
Mrs. Wright inherited the strong
characteristics of her sturdy English
ancestors, who were among the early
settlers of this country.
She was descendant of John Steele
one of the founders of Hartford, Conn.
and of William Bradford, who for
many years was governor of the Ply
mouth, Massachusetts colony. Her
grandfather, Josiah Steele, and his
cousin, Noah Webster, left Yale
college to enlist in the Revolutionary
war.
In 1885 Mrs. Wright sold her
Prairie du Sac home. Since then Ishe
has spent many of her winters In
Washington, D. c., with her son's
family and in Ohio and California
with relatives and her summers in
Baraboo. Recently she has not
Travelled farther than Rldgeway where
she spent last winter with her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Ruggles. Until the last ILL
ness she K ept up large correspon-
dence and also wrote daily in her
diary which she has always done since
childhood. These large ledger volumes
have been carefully preserved and
form o most interesting chronicle Of