Born on the 3d of November 1829, in Troy, New York, his parents being Allen M. and Abigail Valentine Wright. He lost his father when four years old. A few years later his mother married Daniel Morgan, and the whole family went, in 1838, to Black Rock, now a part of Buffalo. In 1843 the family moved to Grand Island. George worked with his step-father at the cooper's trade from eleven to fifteen years of age, but did not like the business, and went on the Niagara river and subsequently on the lakes, starting as a wheelsman on the steamboat Commerce, running on the river, and working his way up to the master of a vessel on the lakes at twenty-one. Mr. Wright piloted the first vessel that went into the port of Tonawanda, the top-gallant-rig schooner Hudson, owned by Winslow and Co., of Cleveland, Ohio. In July, 1859, Mr. Wright removed to the west, spending one year in Wisconsin, three years in Des Moines and Fort Dodge, Iowa, and eight years at Grant City, Sac County. He sold fruit trees and agricultural implements at Des Moines, bought furs at Fort Dodge, and sold goods and built and operated a flooring mill at Grant City. He was also an internal revenue assessor in Sac County in 1868 and 1869. On the 12th of July, 1871, he came to Sioux City under appointment of the United States government, and one week afterward assumed the duties of register of the land office. He has proved himself so competent and faithful an officer, so prompt and energetic, that he is now holding under a second appointment. Mr. Wright was a member of the lower house of the general assembly during the thirteenth session, 1870, representing Sac, Buena Vista, Cherokee and Clay counties. He acted on five committees, and was chairman of the committee on domestic rnanufactures. He aided in drafting the herd law, and the best powers of his active mind were used while in the legislative body. A democrat until 1855, he has since voted with the republicans. He is connected with no church. Mr. Wright is a prominent member of the Masonic order, having taken thirty-two degrees. On the 4th of October, 1854, Mr. Wright took to wife Miss Sarah Smith, of Penfield, New York. Source: The United States Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery of Eminent and Self-Made Men, Iowa Volume, Chicago and New York American Biographical Publishing Company, 1878.