Rice-Fordyce Album 02, Photo 23 - Owen Thomas Wright and Julia (O'Donald) Wright family

Photograph

Greene Connections

Name/Title

Entry/Object ID

2019.41.110

Description

Owen Thomas Wright and his wife Julia (O'Donald) Wright, with their four daughters. Handwritten inscription reads: "Owen T. Wright of Mead Centre, Kansas." Researcher Lisa Bauman, a descendant of Joshua Rice, has pointed out that Owen Thomas Wright was a Union soldier imprisoned with Joshua Rice at Andersonville during the Civil War. Along with Charles C. Thayer (see item # RICE-AN001-0002-0052), these men became close friends and helped each other to get through their days at the prison. Bauman references "Sunshine in Andersonville" by Rev. F. M. Cain, chapters 2 and 12, for this information. Original, professional photograph from Browner, Cottage Studio, Garden City, Kas.

Photograph Details

Type of Photograph

Cabinet Card

Collection

John Robert Rice Collection

Made/Created

Date made

circa 1880 - circa 1900

Place

City

Kansas / Finney County / Garden City

Lexicon

Search Terms

O'Donald family, Veterans--Civil War, Wright family

Other Names and Numbers

Other Number

RICE-AN001-0002-0023

Web Links and URLs

DOWNLOAD high-resolution JPG image, DOWNLOAD high-resolution TIFF image, View Photos in Album, *RELATED COLLECTION: J. Robert Rice, Collector, Civil War Diary of Joshua Rice - West Virginia and Regional History Center

Provenance

Provenance Detail

Rice-Fordyce Album 02 - Rice-Fordyce Series - John Robert Rice Collection

Acquisition Method

Digital

Acquisition Date

2006

Notes

The Rice-Fordyce Series was passed from Joshua Rice [1840-1896] and his wife, Henrietta Fordyce [1846-1920], to their son John Lockwood Rice [1886-1964] and his wife, Mary Irene Phillips [1887-1959], to their son John Robert Rice who owned and shared the photographs with the Greene Connections: Greene County, Pennsylvania Archives Project in 2006. SOURCE CITATION: Rice-Fordyce Album 02, Photo 23 - Owen Thomas Wright and his wife Julia (O'Donald) Wright, with their four daughters; circa 1880-1900, image by Browner, Cottage Studio, Garden City, Kas.; item no. RICE-AN001-0002-0023, John Robert Rice Collection, Greene Connections Archives Project (www.GreeneConnections.com).