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Below is a family biography included in The History of Obion County, Tennessee published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1887. These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary. Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more. There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.
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Charles J. Wright, attorney at law, was born May 11, 1861, in Madrid Bend, which was formerly a part of Obion County, Tenn. Since that time, however, the land upon which his parents then lived has been washed away by the Mississippi River. He is of English descent, and the eldest living of ten children born to the marriage of Prof. Charles Wright and Martha E. Caruthers. The father was born in England in 1830, and immigrated to America in 1851, and six years later came to Obion County, where he yet resides. His life has been spent as an educator, and he is one of the leading instructors of West Tennessee. His wife was born in Lincoln County, Tenn., in 1841. Charles J. Wright was educated in the Troy schools: the Nashville Normal School, where he spent one year, and the Lebanon Law School, which he entered in September, 1883, and graduated from in 1884. In July of the latter year he was admitted to the Obion County bar, and has since been practicing his profession in this county. He is a close and conscientious student, and has met with good success in his legal work. He is a Democrat, and his first presidential vote was cast for Grover Cleveland. He belongs to the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.
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This family biography is one of 179 biographies included in The History of Obion County, Tennessee published in 1887 by Goodspeed. The History of Obion County was included within The History of Gibson, Obion, Dyer, Weakley & Lake Counties of Tennessee. For the complete description, click here: History of Gibson, Obion, Dyer, Weakley, and Lake Counties of Tennessee
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