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John Wright was born on July 16, 1815, at Sheffield, Massachussets, the eldest son of John Wright and Huldah Dewey, both of New England ancestry. On the paternal side he was a descendant of Thomas Wright, who emigrated to America in 1635 and later settled in Wethersfield, Connecticut.
As a boy, he was instructed by his mother's brother, Chester Dewey.
About 1832 he set out for the West with his father, a merchant, with a stock of goods, intending to settle at Galena, Illinois. Arriving at Chicago on October 29, 1832, they decided to remain there and built a hewn log building at Lake and Clark Streets, which was then so far from the business center that their store was called "the Prairie Store. " Young Wright took a census of Chicago in 1833 and published one of the first lithographed maps of the town in 1834. In the latter year he began his real-estate business, and in about two years he held property worth $200, 000. At one time he bought 7, 000 acres of canal land, and in 1836 he purchased a warehouse and dock preparatory to entering the shipping business. In the panic of 1837 this fortune was entirely lost. After the crash he served as secretary and general manager of the Union Agricultural Society and issued for it the Union Agriculturist, beginning in 1839. In 1841 this paper was combined with the Western Prairie Farmer under the double name and was thus continued until the close of the following year. In January 1843 Wright became the owner of the publication and changed its name to the Prairie Farmer. J. Ambrose Wight took over the active editorship of the paper, while Wright directed its business affairs and contributed an occasional article to the educational department. He continued his connection with the Prairie Farmer until 1857. In his trips through the Middle West in a buggy, soliciting subscriptions and contributions for his paper, he learned much of the agriculture and the resources of the country, and grew more and more enthusiastic over its prospects. In 1845 he wrote for the New York Commercial Advertiser a series of articles about the products of the West and the advantages of Illinois and Chicago. Other articles of a similar kind were written for the New York Evening Post, the American Railroad Journal, and other papers. In 1847 he wrote another series advocating the construction of railroads in the West. In 1848, when he worked for a land grant to build a railroad from Chicago to the Gulf of Mexico, he printed and distributed to postmasters along the proposed route six thousand copies of petitions to Congress urging that the road be built, lobbied for the bill in Washington, and urged that the state make provision for building the road and paying the state debt through the land grant. He again entered the real-estate business and was so successful that by 1857 he had acquired a second fortune. In the meantime he had become interested in a self-raking reaper invented by Jearum Atkins and in 1852 had begun the manufacture of the Atkins Automaton. In 1856 he made 2, 800 of these machines and was proving himself a real factor in this growing business. A circumstance of his manufacturing operations of that year led to his undoing. Because of a shortage of seasoned timber he had been forced to make the reapers from unseasoned wood, which warped in the harvest heat. Had it not been for the expenditure of $200, 000 to make good his guarantee on these machines, Wright might have maintained himself through the panic, but this loss and the collapse of other business swept away his fortune a second time.
Even after this reverse he continued his promotional work. In 1859 he formed a land company, sought to interest eastern capitalists, and continued to promote it for several years. After the Chicago fire he characteristically renewed his expression of faith in the city. Wright was one of the conspicuous leaders in the educational life of the state. In 1835 he built, at his own expense, the first public school building erected in Chicago. He labored with Jonathan Baldwin Turner in the interests of a state school system and assisted in promoting organizations to further it. His paper, the Prairie Farmer, was a strong and consistent supporter of public education. He advocated and predicted the formation of a park system connected by boulevards in Chicago. In addition to articles and numerous pamphlets, he compiled a rambling, bombastic volume, Chicago, Past, Present and Future (1868), and wrote Citizenship Sovereignty (1863), Greeting! (1866), and a Reply to Hon. Charles G. Loring upon "Reconstruction" (1867). His writings of this period were rambling and verbose, and gave evidence of the weakening of his mind. His reason finally gave way, and he was committed to an asylum in Philadelphia, where he died on September 26, 1874.
John Stephen Wright was an energetic merchant and real estate investor, whose fortune was wiped out twice before he formed a land company, designed to interest eastern capitalists in the Midwest. In addition, he funded and built the first public school building erected in Chicago, and was a strong and consistent supporter of public education.
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On September 1, 1846, John Stephen Wright married Catherine B. Turner of Virginia. The couple had four children.
Ann Elizabeth Wright was married to Joseph Dana Webster, a civil engineer and soldier. They had a daughter, Frances.
Jonathan Baldwin Turner was an American classical scholar, botanist and political activist.
