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Compendium of History and Biography
of Northern Minnesota
pub: Geo. A. Ogle & Co., Chicago, Ill., 1902

              Page 144-145
              
              C. D. WRIGHT
              
              C. D. WRIGHT, banker and business man of Fergus Falls,
            has been one of the influential contributors to the pros-
            perity, growth and development of Fergus Falls and Otter-
            tail county. Mr. WRIGHT is president of the First National
            Bank of Fergus Falls, with which he has been connected
            since 1878.
              Mr. WRIGHT was born in Vermont, in the village of Orwell,
            in 1850. His father was ETHAN M. WRIGHT, and merchant and
            descended from English stock. The WRIGHT family came from
            England about the year 1653, and many members took part in
            the war for independence.
              C. D. WRIGHT is the second in a family of three children
            and at the age of twelve years went away to attend school,
            thereafter spending but little time at his home. His pri-
            mary education he received at three different schools in
            the New England states and finished with a course at the
            Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at Troy, New York. When
            he was eighteen years he came west, and until 1878 followed
            civil engineering in St. Paul and Minneapolis. In the lat-
            ter year he went to Fergus Falls and was elected vice-
            president of the First National Bank. The bank had been 
            established in 1872, with HENRY G. PAGE as president and
            JAMES COMPTON as cashier. This was the first bank estab-
            lished in the city and the only one for several years. It
            does an extensive business throughout Ottertail and ad-
            joining counties. Mr. WRIGHT served as vice-president a
            number of years and was then elected president, which posi-
            tion he has held continuously since.
              In 1878 our subject was married to Miss LUCY S. BARNEY,
            a native of Malden, Massachusetts, and a descendant of 
            one of the early families of New England. To Mr. and Mrs.
            WRIGHT two children have been born, namely: GEORGE B.,
            now seventeen years of age, and MARY G., fifteen years of
            age. Mr. WRIGHT has taken an active part in public affairs
            of his county and served two terms as mayor of Fergus
            Falls, and has been a member of the city council during
            most of the period of his residence in the city. He is a
            Republican in political faith. He was among the early
            settlers of Fergus Falls and is intimately acquainted with
            all the business and financial interests of the county.
            
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