Re: WRIGHT, ARTHUR (1870 Fulton Co, GA census)
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WRIGHT, ARTHUR (1870 Fulton Co, GA census)
Patsy Kennedy 11/01/06
Patsy,
Although I have sent you this data by email, I thought I would post it in response to your query so that other researchers interested in this Wright family can have the data as well.Working backwards in time, the data is as follows:
The 1860 Census for Canton, Madison County, Mississippi, listed the household of Mary B. Wright, age 26 and born in GA, with A. G. Wright, age 31 and born in GA and a carpenter, and children Lucy Wright, age 4 and born in AL, and Thomas Wright, age 2 and born in MS. This seems clearly to be the family of your Arthur George Wright.
The marriage record of Arthur George Wright and Mary B. Jackson was listed as on July 15, 1855, in Spalding County, Georgia. The image of the record is at:
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-25516-7050-1?cc=1927197&wc=M9S4-2QP:10230842
The 1850 Census for Troup County, GA, listed an Arthur Wright, age 20, born in GA, and a student, in the household of Clergyman Otis Smith. Arthur is a sufficiently unusual name that I bet this is your Arthur George Wright.
The school Arthur Wright was attending in 1850 was the Brownwood Institute and here is a short history of the school:
"In 1837, Brownwood Institute, a second school for young ladies, was founded by Dr. Robert C. Brown from England. Sarah Coleman Ferrell, a former student of Dr. Brown's, convinced him to leave Scottsboro, Georgia, for LaGrange. Dr. Brown located his school two blocks north of the Square on Church Street and, within a few years, built a new campus west of LaGrange, sparing no expense on its buildings and grounds. After his death, Brownwood passed through several owners before the Rev. Otis Smith made it a male university in 1852. Smith had initially come to the county as head of LaGrange High School. Brownwood closed during the War Between the States never to successfully reopen."
Robert N. Grant
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