Will County ILGenWeb Biographies..... 
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Author: History of Will County IL, 1878

Abner WRIGHT, stone and brick mason, Wilmington; born in Steuben Co., N. Y., Dec. 27, 
1812, afterward residing in Livingston Co., that State, for several years prior to his 
coming West; in 1836, he came to Illinois, Wilmington being his first location, which 
he reached in December of that year. Mr. WRIGHT has been engaged in his present business 
for the most part since his residence here, a period of forty-two years, and in a greater 
portion of the buildings in this city he can see his handiwork. Owns forty acres of land 
in Custer Twp., this county, valued at $1,000; also city property in Wilmington.


Additional Comments:
HISTORY OF WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.