Texas Legislators: Past & Present

James Benjamin Wright

Full Name: James Benjamin Wright
Birth date: March 12, 1832
Death date: May 20, 1893

(1) "He is, as he declares, a Democrat 'dyed in wool'," p. 194. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Distinguished Texans, 20th Legislature 1887.
(2) Roster of senators and representatives of the 20th Legislature with their postoffice address, Austin Weekly Statesman, "Governmental," 12/30/1886, p. 6. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .

Confederate States Army, Private, Company K, 5th Kentucky Mounted Infantry (formerly Company K, 9th Kentucky Infantry Mounted), enlisted 5/1/1862 at Hoover's Gap. James Benjamin Wright, death date 5/20/1893 in Collin County, Texas, widow Mrs. Lizzie A. Wright, marriage date 12/25/1867 in Crawford County, Illinois. Pension File No. 42328, Alabama, Texas and Virginia, U.S., Confederate Pensions, 1884-1958. Ancestry.com .
J.B. Wright, marriage to Elizabeth Higgins, 12/26/1867 in Crawford County, Illinois.
Census of 1870 - James B. Wright, Martin Township, Crawford County, Illinois, age 36, born circa 1834 in Kentucky, physician, wife Elizabeth.
Census of 1880 - J.B. Wright, Collin County, Texas, age 48, born circa 1832 in Kentucky, farmer, wife Elizabeth, daughter Lilly, sons E.F., J.B., and W. Wright. FamilySearch . 1870 1880

Dr. J.B.W. Wright, birth date 3/12/1832, death date 5/20/1893, burial in Van Winkle Cemetery, Princeton, Collin County, with spouse Eliz. A.W. Wright. Find a Grave .
Biographical sketch, James B. Wright, pp. 194-195. Born in Lexington, Kentucky; settled in Crawford county, Illinois, after the Civil War and married Elizabeth Higgins while living there; came to Texas in 1876 and settled in Collin County; doctor, studied medicine at the Eclectic College in Cincinnati, "now engaged in agriculture." Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Distinguished Texans, 20th Legislature 1887.
Confederate States Army, Private, Company K, 5th Regiment, Breckinridge's division. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Distinguished Texans, 20th Legislature 1887.
"Resolutions of Respect" for Dr. J.B. Wright by Sister Grove Alliance No. 775, The Democrat (McKinney, Texas), 6/15/1893, p. 3, crediting Collin County Genealogical Society. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
James Benjamin Wright, physician, death date 5/20/1893 in Collin County, widow Mrs. Lizzie A. Wright, Princeton, Collin County, Texas File No. 42328. Collin County Genealogical Society. Civil War Pension Applications from Collin County, Texas, Collin Chronicles, Volume 20, Number 4, 1999/2000, p. 97, crediting Collin County Genealogical Society. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .