John Wright history

In 1809, he moved to Steubenville, Ohio, and established a law practice.

In a short time his father moved into the same neighborhood; where, in 1810, they organized a congregation of Dependent or Free Will Baptists.

They then began in earnest the work of reformation, and with such success that by the year 1821 there was scarcely a Baptist church in all that region.

He returned to Ohio and became a justice of the Ohio Supreme Court in 1831. . Two years later, Wright helped found the Cincinnati Law School.

She also died, on the 29th of August, 1844; and the following extract is from her obituary notice, written by T. C. Johnson, and published in the Christian Record for November of that year:

In a communication to the October number of the Christian Record for 1845, he wrote as follows:

Amos Wright, Sr. was born in Rowan County, North Carolina, in 1764 and departed this life October 14, 1846, in Washington County, Indiana.

Some time in 1909 he settled with members of his family near Blue River, approximately four miles south of Salem, Indiana.

In 1916 R.P. Wilton built the large warehouse on North Front Street that is now home to the John Wright Restaurant.

In 1923 Wilton rented the building to B. Edmund David who installed a silk mill there.

David operated nine silk mills, the largest located in Patterson, NJ, known at the time as the “silk city of the world”. When David’s five year lease expired in 1928, he offered to buy the factory from Wilton but was turned down.

During the winter of 1932-33, he attended this school daily the entire New Testament was read and thoroughly studied from Matthew to the "Amen" of Revelation.

He preached his first sermon in 1933 and has preached the gospel ever since.

David died in 1936, and his family, uninterested in continuing the silk business, sold the property.

Eight years later, in 1945, Turner bought the Wilton building and built an overpass connecting the two factories.

John Wright began in 1947 and started to manufacture souvenirs and gifts on the banks of the Susquehanna River in Wrightsville, Pennsylvania.

Turner closed The Wrightsville Textile Corporation in 1951 when he rented the Wilton building to another weaving operation.

The Wrightsville Textile Corporation occupied both buildings until 1952 and employed 250 people, with 50 looms in the Wilton building, 150 looms in the David factory across the street, all manufacturing Jacquard tie silk.

Grinnell bought the building in 1957.

In 1965 Donsco purchased the original Wilton building from Turner to use as a warehouse and manufacturing facility for John Wright consumer products.

The John Wright Store opened an outlet there in 1974 selling seconds, overruns, and discontinued items.

In 1980 Donsco completed the acquisition of these properties by purchasing from Grinnell the building across the street and locating its machine shop there.

-F-HU Lectures, 1987, pages (83-89), JOSEPH H. COX (BIO): Joseph Cox grew up in an area and in an age when formal schooling was not so readily available as it is today.

In 1988 the John Wright Restaurant started as a sandwich shop where visitors might enjoy the view of the river.