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	Silas Wright - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wright was born in Amherst, Massachusetts and moved with his father to Weybridge, Vermont, in 1796.
		Wright was appointed brigadier general of the state militia in 1827.
		Wright was elected to the United States Senate in 1833 as a Democrat to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William L. Marcy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Silas_Wright (360 words)

	Joseph Wright - LoveToKnow 1911
		JOSEPH WRIGHT (1734-1797), styled Wright of Derby, English subject, landscape and portrait painter, was born at Derby on the 3rd of September 1734, the son of an attorney, who was afterwards town-clerk.
		Wright's portraits are frequently defective in drawing, and without quality or variety of handling, while their flesh tints are often hard.
		An exhibition of Wright's works was brought together at Derby in 1883, and twelve of his pictures were shown in the winter exhibition of the Royal Academy in 1886.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Joseph_Wright (399 words)

	Silas Wright
		WRIGHT, Silas, statesman, born in Amherst, Massachusetts, 24 May, 1795; died in Canton, St. Lawrence County, New York, 27 August, 1847.
		Wright opposed the distribution among the states of the surplus Federal revenues, supported the independent treasury scheme of Van Buren, maintained in reference to the abolition of slavery the right of petition and the sovereignty of congress over the territories in 1838, and voted for the tariff of 1842 and for the annexation of Texas.
		Wright emphatically declared that the arms and the money of the Union ought never to be used for the acquisition of territory for the purpose of planting slavery.
	famousamericans.net /silaswright (778 words)

	Silas Wright House - SLCHA
		Silas Wright bought the house a year later, and within the next year started expanding the house by adding a kitchen, enteryway, parlors, and second story bedrooms.
		Wright would have used the fireplace and "beehve" oben during the couple's first year in the house.
		The study seems to have been the heart of the house in the 1840's, as it was here that Wright spent much of his time writing letters and conducting political business when at home.
	slcha.org /house.php (350 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Wright
		Orville Wright 1871-1948, was born in Dayton, Ohio, and Wilbur Wright, 1867-1912, near New Castle, Ind. Their interest in aviation was aroused in the 1890s by the German engineer Otto Lilienthal 's glider flights.
		Wright, Jim WRIGHT, JIM [Wright, Jim] (James Claud Wright, Jr 1922-, U.S. congressman, speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (1987-89), b.
		Wright, Judith WRIGHT, JUDITH [Wright, Judith] (Judith Arundell Wright), 1915-2000, Australian poet.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Wright (618 words)

	Wright, Silas. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		In the U.S. Senate (1833–44), Wright consistently supported President Andrew Jackson, voted for the annexation of Texas, upheld the Independent Treasury System, and opposed slavery.
		In 1844 the Democratic convention chose him as its vice presidential candidate, but Wright refused the nomination, ran for governor of New York instead, and defeated Millard Fillmore in a close contest.
		Wright vetoed a canal improvement bill, opposed calling the constitutional convention of 1846, and used the militia in the antirent riots.
	www.bartleby.com /65/wr/Wright-Si.html (199 words)

	Thanks, But No Thanks: Silas Wright (Part I)
		Silas Wright was born on May 24, 1795 in Amherst, Massachusetts.
		Wright got his political grounding in Vermont where his father was a member of the state legislature.
		Silas Wright was educated at the Addison County Grammar School and then the Middlebury Academy in Middlebury, Vermont.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/presidents_and_first_ladies/108195 (523 words)

	Brief Biographies of Jackson Era Characters (W)
		In England and France, Wright reenvisioned the enterprise as a communal place of work and education, in which the marriage contract would be invalid (the Rubicon having been crossed), and the two races would learn to live in peace and harmony.
		As Wright composed a sort of manifesto to be presented to the newpaper of another communal venture in the American west, (Robert Owen's New Harmony), Mrs.
		Wright subsequently became co-editor of the New Harmony Gazette, which was renamed the Free Enquirer.
	www.jmisc.net /BIOG-W.htm (5410 words)

	Silas Wright
		The American politician Silas Wright was born in Amherst, Massachusetts on 24 May 1795.
		When in April 1847, the application of the Wilmot Proviso to the territories that had been obtained from Mexico was under discussion, Wright emphatically declared that the arms and the money of the Union ought never to be used for the acquisition of territory for the purpose of planting slavery.
		Wright was a great man, an honest man; if he committed errors, they were induced by his devotion to his party.
	www.nndb.com /people/056/000051900 (533 words)

	Wright, Silas - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		He was admitted (1819) to the bar and began practicing law at Canton, N.Y. Becoming involved in state politics, in the 1820s he opposed the faction headed by De Witt Clinton and became one of the leaders of the Albany Regency.
		Having served (1824-27) in the state senate, he became (1827) a member of the U.S. House of Representatives and was (1829-33) comptroller of New York state.
		In the U.S. Senate (1833-44), Wright consistently supported President Andrew Jackson, voted for the annexation of Texas, upheld the Independent Treasury System, and opposed slavery.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-wright-si.html (354 words)

	A Directory of Towns, Villages, and Hamlets of Missouri (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Wright County was organized January 29, 1841, and named for Silas Wright, of New York.
		The first settlement in Wright County was made in 1832 when a colony of sixteen persons located upon land along the Gasconade and on Wood's Fork, near the site of Hartville....
		At the outbreak of the Civil War, the residents of Wright County were divided in sentiment; about one-half were in favor of an undivided union and the other half in favor of the Confederacy.
	thelibrary.springfield.missouri.org /lochist/moser/wrightco.html (370 words)

	USATODAY.com - Notes: Bengals take UVA's Brooks in supplemental draft (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		But defense lawyer Natasha Silas said Wright was in almost daily contact with his previous attorney for a month after the federal warrant was later issued and was trying to negotiate his surrender.
		Silas said that if Wright was really intent on fleeing, he would have left the country, rather than staying in Florida, where his mother lives.
		Silas also said that Wright and his wife had received death threats from some of his investors and he wanted to make sure his family was safe before turning himself in.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/football/nfl/2006-07-13-notes_x.htm?csp=34 (1175 words)

	Silas Loren Wright (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Since pictures are better than words for this subject, first, here are some shots of Silas in various baby poses about the house and with family.
		Breastfeeding Silas has been easy, too (as much as nursing an infant can be, anyhow) and painless, and he weighed 5 ounces more at 12 days old than he had at birth, which was pretty good.
		However, we gave Silas the middle name Loren, which is Russell's middle name too, as well as David's, and his father Roger's, and his father's (and the first name of HIS father).
	www.pell.portland.or.us /~silas/index.html (702 words)

	Richard Wright Chronology
		The play Native Son, adapted by Wright with Paul Green, is produced on Broadway by Orson Welles and John Houseman.
		Wright writes the film version of Native Son and travels for filming.
		Wright dies of an apparent heart attack on November 28.
	www.itvs.org /RichardWright/chron.html (1045 words)

	Wright Surname Listing (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Wright, Hannah - dau of Lt Abel Wright
		Wright is one of the conservative men of his town, serving as collector of the town and has ever been recognized as a man of sterling integrity, whose life has proven his word as good as his bond.
		Wright is one of the progressive business men of his town, taking an intelligent interest in educational and religious institutions and has ever advanced the best interest of his town and town's people.
	footprints.org.cob-web.org:8888 /9-000001.htm (5227 words)

	Silas Wright West (1846-1918 )
		Silas left Missouri at the age of sixteen when he signed up as a "night herder" on a cattle drive to Montana.
		Silas must have been able to offer some medical assistance since his father was a doctor.
		Silas again embarked upon another venture in hopes of regaining his losses in San Francisco when he went to Mexico where he bought an interest in a mine and a rubber ranch at Tampico.
	www.lofthouse.com /USA/Utah/washington/history/swest.html (728 words)

	SportingNews.com - NFL - Judge revokes bond for hedge fund manager accused in fraud scheme
		But defense lawyer Natasha Silas said Wright was in almost daily contact with his previous attorney and was trying to negotiate his surrender.
		Silas said that if Wright intended to flee, he would have left the country, rather than staying in Florida, where his mother lives.
		According to authorities, Wright and his company collected as much as $185 million from at least 500 investors since 1997 and misled some of them to believe the value of those investments was increasing, using false statements and documents.
	www.sportingnews.com /yourturn/viewtopic.php?t=108287 (494 words)

	Otsego Mutual - A Legacy Continued
		Wright was named president of the company, while Kelsey assumed the role of secretary and manager, allowing him to personally secure and service all the company’s policyholders.
		This group photo of (from left) Edgar W. Wright, Silas L. Kelsey and Bina Brady was taken in 1909 in the back room office of Kelsey’s house.
		The company’s leadership throughout succeeding years remained as solid as it was under Edgar Wright and Silas Kelsey, as did the ties that bound the company to the village of Burlington Flats.
	www.otsegomutual.com /history3.htm (431 words)

	Wright County » General Information and Facts at a Glance
		Wright County lies in East Central Minnesota, bordered on the north by the Mississippi River and the east by the Crow River.
		Farmland, rivers and lakes characterize the landscape of Wright County.
		As agriculture diminishes as a land use, Wright County is poised with its growing labor force to meet future economic development.
	www.co.wright.mn.us /about.htm (611 words)

	McKenney Middle School - Silas Wright House (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Silas Wright was the first lawyer in Canton and Governor of New York from 1844-46.
		Silas Wright's house originally consisted of two rooms.
		Silas Wright's portrait overlooks the house today, just as he overlooked and supervised it in the 1830s and 40s.
	www.northnet.org /mckenney.middle.school/silas.html (598 words)

	Wright, Silas Forge article = silaswr.htm
		Silas Wright was governor of New York State from 1845 to 1856; in addition he held several state offices and was a U.S. Congressman and Senator.
		The family was a close knit one; Silas Wright's brother Pliney was in latter years to marry Ann (CHAPPEL) BIGELOW.
		In the letter are references to Pliney WRIGHT and their sister Lucretia, known as "Creecy".
	bigelowsociety.com /rod/silaswr.htm (717 words)

	Silas Wright - LoveToKnow 1911 (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		SILAS WRIGHT (1795-1847), American political leader, was born at Amherst, Mass., on the 24th of May 1795.
		Wright's integrity in office was illustrated in 1845, when the "anti-rent troubles" (see NEW York) broke out and it seemed probable that the votes of the disaffected would decide the coming election.
		Renominated for governor in 1846, Wright was defeated, and the result was by many ascribed in part to the alleged hostility of the Polk administration.
	www.1911ency.org.cob-web.org:8888 /W/WR/WRIGHT_SILAS.htm (354 words)

	Thanks, But No Thanks: Silas Wright, Part II
		Wright, showing his strong feelings of inadequacy, told Van Buren that there were many men much better able to defend the President.
		Wright’s participation on Jackson’s behalf offered little benefit to the President because Wright was not a very effective speaker, which is why Wright had initially left Jackson’s defense to other senators who were better orators.
		Daniel Webster, considered one of the greatest orators ever to sit in the Senate, called Silas Wright “the most inferior man in debate that sat in the Senate.” While that evaluation may be overly harsh, he certainly had it right when he placed Wright among the worst speakers in Congress.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/presidents_and_first_ladies/108931 (482 words)

	The RUBINS Family Web
		Silas son of Zephaniah and Catherine (Abbott) Deane, was born July 24, 1798, died at Athens, Greene County, New York, August 24, 1849, from Asiatic cholera.
		James A. Deane, son of Silas (3) and Eleanor (Salsibury) Deane, was born at Coxsackie, Greene county, New York, November 26, 1840.
		Silas Wright Dean was born February 20, 1849.
	www.napanet.net /~jmrubins/d0/i0001443.htm (668 words)

	John Wright (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Julius Wright later on in these Estate Papers, was appointed as guardian of Francis, Olivene, Zoro, Elihu, and John P. It appears that Susan Wright, widow of John Wright, remarried.
		This is according to a marriage record of Susan Wright, daughter of Absolam and Mary Hoyle to J. Cook, son of James and Sarah Cook.
		Grave of Susan Wright is said to be beside that of her parents on the land of Absolom Hoyle.
	www.flyingwright.com.cob-web.org:8888 /genealog/john.htm (1065 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Samuel Wright was sent over to America by his brother, Nathaniel in the interest of the Winthrop Colony about 1634 (founded).
		Phoebe Wright, the daughter of Benjamin Wright and Margaret Finch married James Jesse Strang and had a daughter, Eugenia Strang, who was born October 28, 1856 at Black River Falls, Wisconsin.
		Sarah Adelia Wright, the daughter of Phineas Wright and Amanda Finch married James Jesse Strang and had a son, James Phineas Strang, who was born November 11, 1856 at Black River Falls, Wisconsin.
	members.aol.com /nashtoni/wrightfamilytree.html (293 words)

	tripodfamilytree122104 - pafg137 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		Sarah Elizabeth Wright [Parents] was born on 12 Dec 1874.
		James Silas Wright [Parents] was born on 16 Sep 1873.
		Susan Adeline Wright [Parents] was born on 24 Jun 1872.
	members.tripod.com /beejay1/pafg137.htm (152 words)

	UED6113 Missouri Courthouses: Wright County, MU Extension
		County Court records for Wright County were destroyed in an 1896 fire, and there are few newspaper records.
		A photograph in the Pulaski County Historical Society is identified as Wright County's courthouse of 1841-1845, but this may be a home in which early courts met.
		Built of soft brick, the courthouse plagued the county with constant need of repair until it was demolished in January 1964 as the new courthouse was being constructed.
	muextension.missouri.edu /explore/uedivis/ue6113.htm (543 words)

	Wright County, Minnesota Real Estate, REALTORS®e
		It was established in 1855, and named, after much debate, for New York politician Silas Wright, a former U.S. senator.
		The population is estimated to have increased by 31% in the last ten years, since the 1990 census counted a population of 68,770.
		The People of Wright County value their natural surroundings, demonstrated by the 2800 acres devoted to our park system.
	www.igotrealestate.com /wright_county.shtml (383 words)

	Lalor, Cyclopaedia of Political Science, V.3, Entry 322, WRIGHT: Library of Economics and Liberty
		WRIGHT, Silas, was born at Amherst, Mass., May 24, 1795, and died at Canton, N. Y., Aug. 27, 1847.
		He was graduated at Middlebury college in 1815, was admitted to the bar in 1819, and almost immediately entered politics as a democrat.
		Wright was defeated for re-election as governor by the refusal of administration democrats to vote.
	www.econlib.org /library/YPDBooks/Lalor/llCy1092.html (335 words)

	The Calvin Hill - William Noble House / Canton New York
		Stephen van Rensselaer sells 30-acre tract of land (on which this house sits) to Governor Silas Wright, Jr.
		Silas Wright and Joseph Barnes sell 27 1/4 acres of the tract to Calvin Hill on Nov. 11 for $763.
		According to Phyllis Forbes Clark, former Village of Canton Librarian and house owner, the house is built by Calvin Hill, whose wedding is the first to be performed in the Town of Russell.
	www2.potsdam.edu /campbemr/hillhouse_chronology.html (299 words)

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