Representative Samuel Wright View All Years

HON. SAMUEL WRIGHT.

MR. SPEAKER—Your committee appointed to prepare and present suitable resolutions respecting the life, character and public services of the Honorable Samuel Wright, late a member of the House of Representatives in the Twentieth General Assembly, beg leave to report the following:

The subject of this memorial was born January 19, 1837, in Morgan county, Illinois, and at the age of eighteen emigrated to Wayne county, Iowa. He was one of the pioneer settlers of Wayne county and had much to do with the early government of the county. He was twice elected to the office of sheriff and served two full terms. He was elected to the office of Representative in the Iowa Legislature and served in the Twentieth General Assembly. He was probably, at one time, personally acquainted with more people than any other man in the county. In the years of his early vigor he was actively interested in any enterprise which promised to promote the welfare and enlarge the happiness of his people.

No man in Southern Iowa contributed more than he to the erection of schools. In all the avenues of activity in which he was engaged, his labor was conscientiously performed and every confidence reposed in him was faithfully redeemed.

In the year 1899 he moved to Beaver county, Oklahoma. He departed this life January 21, 1909, at Liberal, Kansas, and in compliance with an oft-expressed wish, he was buried at Ochiltree, Texas. Therefore be it

Resolved: That the foregoing memorial be entered upon the Journal of the House and that an enrolled transcript thereof be presented to the bereaved family of the deceased.

W. P. ALLRED,

GEO. W. SWAN,

C. F. SWIFT,

Committee.