Son of John and Elizabeth Wright, was born in Melton Mowbray. England, August 3, 1824. Pious parents dedicated him to God in his fancy, and he became conscious of the fact that he was a subject of convert grace and the visible fellowship of the church of God in his fourteenth year. Nine years later in his native place, he was licensed to preach the Gospel. He was married to Miss Mary Black, in Frisby Leicestershire, England, May 10, 1848, and emigrated to America in March, 1849. He settled first in Cleveland, Ohio, and later in Cross Plains, Wisconsin. In 1852 he removed to Springfield, Wisconsin, where he filled various public positions of honor and trust. He was elected to a seat in the Wisconsin Legislature in 1863, and was re-elected in 1864. He removed to Des Moines, Iowa, in 1868, and the year following located on a farm near Norwalk, Iowa. While residing here he was honored by being elected a member of the Seventeenth General Assembly from Warren county. Before entering the Itinerancy, he served the church of his choice efficiently in all its various official relations and was a local elder at the time of his admission on trial to the Des Moines Conference, September 20, 1878, in Atlantic, Iowa. His effective ministerial service covered a period of fifteen years, fourteen of which were spent in the Atlantic District. His fields of labor were Avoca, Menlo, Panora, Dexter, Macedonia, Adel, Garden Grove. He served three of these charges full terms of three years, Avoca, Panora and Macedonia. Rev. Wright served them all with that vigor and strength which characterized him as a man. His work was effective, and the result satisfactory. Brother Wright was united in marriage a second time, with Mrs. Nellie E. Gorden, of Madison County, Iowa.