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Biography
1820 -
Speaker of the House.
Born August 30, 1820.
WRIGHT, RICHARDSON L., 4308 Frankford Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa. 1891.
Born in the Province of Ulster, Ireland; son of Robert Erskine Wright, of Tyrone, Ireland, and Mary Richardson Little, of Fermanagh, Ireland, who located first in St. John, New Brunswick; then to Philadelphia; brought by parents to this country during childhood; retired, formerly in mercantile pursuits; Speaker of the House of Representatives, and Senator; served many years in both branches of the Legislature of Pennsylvania; studied law under Chief Justice Read, but never practiced thereafter. He married Eleanor Elizabeth Roberts of Northern Liberties. For the past nineteen years a member of the Board of Public Education in Philadelphia by appointment of the Judges of the Courts. (See " Biographical Encyclopedia of Pennsylvania," published in 1874.)
United States Assessor, 5th District, 1867, appointment through Charles Buckalew.
Born August 30, 1820.
WRIGHT, RICHARDSON L., 4308 Frankford Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa. 1891.
Born in the Province of Ulster, Ireland; son of Robert Erskine Wright, of Tyrone, Ireland, and Mary Richardson Little, of Fermanagh, Ireland, who located first in St. John, New Brunswick; then to Philadelphia; brought by parents to this country during childhood; retired, formerly in mercantile pursuits; Speaker of the House of Representatives, and Senator; served many years in both branches of the Legislature of Pennsylvania; studied law under Chief Justice Read, but never practiced thereafter. He married Eleanor Elizabeth Roberts of Northern Liberties. For the past nineteen years a member of the Board of Public Education in Philadelphia by appointment of the Judges of the Courts. (See " Biographical Encyclopedia of Pennsylvania," published in 1874.)
United States Assessor, 5th District, 1867, appointment through Charles Buckalew.