Edwin Bradley Wright Journal

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Saugatuck Douglas Historical Society

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Name/Title

Edwin Bradley Wright Journal

Entry/Object ID

2022.11.03

Scope and Content

Selected journal entries of Dr. Edwin Bradley Wright (1827-1879) transcribed by Katharine House Allen. Bound in blue, report folder. Dated 1999. 35 pages plus map of New York state for reference.

Context

Dr. Wright was a civil war physician who, widowed, moved to Saugatuck with his foster daughter Harriet Moffat in 1870. His sister Jessie and her husband Harvey House has moved to Saugatuck in 1967. Harriet Moffat married Charles Bird of Saugatuck in 1876. Their daughter Elita Bird Graves had the journal until her death in 1991. She passed the journals on to her daughters Margaret Van Houtte and Connie Deam who then passed the journals to Katherine House Allen. All of the journal entries are from 1851-1854, before Dr. Wright came to Saugatuck, but are a harrowing about of life then.

Cataloged By

Winthers, Sally

Acquisition

Accession

2022.11

Source or Donor

McEnroe, Therese "Tess" K.

Acquisition Method

Donation

Location

Box

074 House Family

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

House, Jessie M. (Wright) (1832-1910), House, Harvey Lathrop 1825-1897, Allen, Katharine "Kiff" (House) 1926-2012, Bird, Harriet “Hattie” Louise (Moffat) (Wright) 1855-1944, Bird, Charles Edmund Sr. 1855-1941, Deam, Constance "Connie" (Graves) 1933-2019, Graves, Elita (Bird) 1897-1991, Van Houtte, Margaret, Wright, Dr. Edwin Bradley (1827-1879)

Create Date

February 9, 2022

Update Date

June 9, 2023