In Memoriam, John S. Wright: An Address Delivered Before the Chicago Historical Society, Friday Evening, July 21, 1885 (Classic Reprint) - Augustine W. Wright, Paperback

• Release Date   9/27/2015
• ISBN-13   9781332144259 | 978-1-332-14425-9
• ISBN   133214425X | 1-332-14425-X
• Format   Paperback
• Author(s)   Augustine W. Wright
• Excerpt from In Memoriam, John S. Wright: An Address Delivered Before the Chicago Historical Society, Friday Evening, July 21, 1885"The means that heaven yields must be embraced, and not neglected. else if heaven would and we will not, heavens offer we refuse."No city was ever the happy possessor of greater capacity in its founders! John S. Wright wrote, "A set of men superior to the early settlers of Chicago were never brought together." Only the most enterprising and energetic ventured upon the long and trying journey to the then "Far-West," and those early settlers have left their impress upon every profession every occupation in the life of this great metropolis! Their fame is not bounded by the confines of this vast continent, but has extended to every civilized country upon the globe! Among those who thus cast their all with Chicago was the subject of this brief address, and to no other individual is this city more indebted.In the quaint old graveyard at Colchester, Conn., can be seen tombs of generations of the Wrights. Capt. Joseph Wright moved from Wethersfield to Colchester, where he purchased a large farm. He died Sept. 10, 1766, aged 87. His wife was Mary Dudley from Guilford.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully. any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.