[SON] LESTER WRIGHT was born in Massachusetts on the 20th of August, 1804, and went to Otisco, N. Y., when an infant. At the age of six years he was taken by his parents to Genesse, N. Y., and when he was sixteen accompanied them to Wrightsville, as it has since been called. They reached here on the 16th of July. At that time there was hardly an acre of tillable land in one spot in the entire township of Freehold, as now constituted. Trees had been extensively felled, but the farmers had been more industrious to reap the profits of lumbering than of clearing land. ... " LESTER WRIGHT started the first store in the place about 1832, on the site of the present meat-market. As he was engaged during the working of the day in his mill, he attended the store only mornings and evenings. About 1837 he enlarged this branch of his business, and in 1840 built the large block now occupied by his son PHILANDER WRIGHT. ...
From The History of Warren County
[SON] LESTER WRIGHT was born in Massachusetts on the 20th of August, 1804, and went to Otisco, N. Y., when an infant. At the age of six years he was taken by his parents to Genesse, N. Y., and when he was sixteen accompanied them to Wrightsville, as it has since been called. They reached here on the 16th of July. At that time there was hardly an acre of tillable land in one spot in the entire township of Freehold, as now constituted. Trees had been extensively felled, but the farmers had been more industrious to reap the profits of lumbering than of clearing land. ... " LESTER WRIGHT started the first store in the place about 1832, on the site of the present meat-market. As he was engaged during the working of the day in his mill, he attended the store only mornings and evenings. About 1837 he enlarged this branch of his business, and in 1840 built the large block now occupied by his son PHILANDER WRIGHT. ...
From The History of Warren County
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