Placer
County
Biographies
EDWIN F. WRIGHT
In preparing the history of Placer
County we would certainly leave the work incomplete if we failed to mention
Edwin F. Wright, who is now serving as district attorney and is one of the
younger members of the bar. A native of
New Jersey, he was born in Bloomfield on the 20th of September,
1866, and is of Scotch and English ancestry.
His father, J. J. Wright, was born in Hudson, New York, and when he had
attained his majority chose as a companion and helpmeet on life’s journey Miss
Ann Rose. Both parents died when our
subject was a child and consequently he knows very little about the family
history. He resided with his half sister
and was educated and reared to manhood in New York City, receiving his
intellectual training in the public and private schools of the eastern
metropolis. After coming to California
in 1887, he read law with L. L. Chamberlain for his preceptor for five years
and was admitted to the bar in 1895. He
was the city attorney of Auburn for two years and in 1898 was elected district
attorney of Placer County.
Mr. Wright votes with the Republican
Party, believing firmly in its principles.
Socially he is connected with the Masonic and Knights of Pythias fraternities
and is a member of the Order of Red Men.
He has a wide acquaintance throughout Placer County and is rated as one
of the prominent members of the bar, having met with very gratifying success in
the handling of intricate legal problems, and he possesses a spirit of
perseverance which enables him to become thoroughly familiar with his suit,
leaving unnoticed no detail which may advance his cause in the slightest
degree, yet at the same time he gives due prominence to the questions upon
which the decision of the case finally turns.
Transcribed by
Gerald Iaquinta.
Source:
“A Volume of Memoirs and Genealogy of Representative Citizens of Northern
California”, Pages 196-197. Chicago Standard Genealogical Publishing Co. 1901.
© 2010
Gerald Iaquinta.