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REV. JOHN HERNDON WRIGHT
The subject of this sketch, the son of Robert and Martha S.
Wright, was born near Upper Zion, in Caroline county, on April
17, 1852. The first building of Upper Zion Baptist church was
erected on the land of his ancestors. Ne was educated in the
schools of Caroline county, Va., Fulton, Ky., Jackson University,
Jackson, Tenn., and Baptist Theological Seminary at Louisville,
Ky. Ne was ordained to the ministry in 1874 and has held
and at Union City, Milan, Nashville and Memphis, Tenn., the
last named city being the present scene of his labours. In recent
years Jackson University conferred on him the degree of Doctor of
Divinity.
Doctor Wright was married in 1888 to Miss Laura Wilhelm
of Paducah, Ky., by the Rev. Lewis Hall Shuck, son of Dr. J.
Lewis Shuck and Henriette Hall Shuck, the latter being the
first American woman missionary to China. She was a daughter
of the Rev. Addison Hall, of Lancaster county, Va. Of this
marriage there were the following children: Irene, who married
Edward Hill, of Nashville, Tenn., and John Herndon, Jr., who
married a Miss Stephens, of Nashville and now lives in Birmingham.
Dr. Wright had one brother and one sister, Fuller Wright
and Miss Allie Wright and five half brothers, James, William,
Robert and Albert Wright and Rev. M. E. Shaddock, of whom
see elsewhere in this chapter.
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