Background
Wright, James Franklin was born on March 6, 1862 in Muscatine, Iowa, United States. Son of William Henry and Martha Jane (Bean) Wright.
Wright, James Franklin was born on March 6, 1862 in Muscatine, Iowa, United States. Son of William Henry and Martha Jane (Bean) Wright.
Educated Public school.
Successively engine wiper, brakeman, switchman and yardmaster, Certificated Master&Street.P. Railroad, Davenport, Iowa, 1878-1891. General agent Equitable Life Assurance Society of New York, Davenport, 1891-1906. Developing and marketing inventions, 1906-1914.
Founder, organizer, 1914, and from then executive secretary and leader of Pathfinders of America (a philanthropic educational organization).
Mason. Degree of Doctor of Commercial Science (“Doctor of Common Sense”) was voted by prisoners in 1927.
Married Martha Jane Henninger, September 19, 1883. Children: Lawrence Blaine, Leota Catherine (Mistress Harry Walter Helberg, December.