WRIGHT, Mathew B. (1858)

WRIGHT

Posted By: Nettie Mae (email)
Date: 5/26/2024 at 20:22:53

The DeWitt Standard, Dec. 22, 1858

Died, Dec. 3d, 1858, at the residence of his father, at Rome, New York, Mathew B. Wright, late of DeWitt, Clinton County, Iowa.

Seven years ago he went to the west and became Engineer during the construction of several Rail Roads, among which were the Wisconsin Central and the Chicago and Iowa. He was highly respected for his business capabilities, general intelligence and high moral character. He returned home in September on a visit, but as the event proved, to lay his body already wasting under a fatal disease, in the dust among his kindred. No young man of our acquaintance in Rome has borne himself more creditably, or been more truly worthy the place he held in the esteem of all who knew him. The large attendance at his funeral on Monday was a sincere tribute to his memory by his fellow townsmen, and the intelligence of his decease, will be as deeply mourned by a large circle of friends and acquaintances in his new home in Iowa. His age was 28 -- Roman (N. Y.) Citizen