Bio: Wright, Ely (1881)
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Surnames: Wright, Fairchild

----Source: The History of Northern Wisconsin (Marathon County, Wis.) 1881, page 569

ELY WRIGHT, one of the proprietors of the P. G. Murray Iron Works, Wausau, was born in Athens, Bradford Co., Pa., Jan. 5, 1838. He came to Marinette in 1864, and remained there seven years, engaged as superintendent and cashier of the Menominee River Lumber Company, after the expiration of which time he embarked in the mercantile business, which he followed five years. He then bought the Menominee Iron Works, and run that in connection with a sash, door and blind factory; he also kept a broker's office. In the Winter of 1876, he moved the iron works, and erected them at Wausau. He was married in Marinette, Nov. 23, 1865, to Ella L. Fairchild, who was born in Maysville, Va., May 24, 1840. They have six children — Nellie M., Robert E., Fred, Ralph, Jessie F. and Leah.