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Birth	:	27 Feb 1873 Ireland
Death	:	16 Apr 1951 White Plains, Westchester County, New York, USA
Burial	:	Ellendale City Cemetery, Ellendale, Dickey County, USA
Coordinate	:	46.0039970, -98.5050060
Plot	:	29 8
Description	:	FORMER PUBLISHER OF LEADER PASSES (April 19, 1951) Alex. R. Wright, Veteran Dickey County Newsman, Succumbs At Daughters Home - Alex R. Wright, former Ellendale resident and for many years closely connected with newspaper history in Dickey county, died on Monday, April 16, in White Plains, N.Y., where he had made his home with his daughter. Funeral services will be held here tomorrow afternoon at two oclock at the Presbyterian church, the pastor, Rev. Charles C. Converse officiating, and burial will be in the Ellendale cemetery. Pallbearers are to be F.W. Blumer, L.R. Lynde, F.E. Randall,... Read More	FORMER PUBLISHER OF LEADER PASSES (April 19, 1951) Alex. R. Wright, Veteran Dickey County Newsman, Succumbs At Daughters Home - Alex R. Wright, former Ellendale resident and for many years closely connected with newspaper history in Dickey county, died on Monday, April 16, in White Plains, N.Y., where he had made his home with his daughter. Funeral services will be held here tomorrow afternoon at two oclock at the Presbyterian church, the pastor, Rev. Charles C. Converse officiating, and burial will be in the Ellendale cemetery. Pallbearers are to be F.W. Blumer, L.R. Lynde, F.E. Randall, A.T. Johnson, E.J. King, and H.J. Goddard. The Holte funeral home will handle arrangements. Alexander Robinson Wright was born Feb 27, 1873, in Carelinty, Ireland. In 1888, the family sailed from Londonderry to Philadelphia and from there went to Waukesha, Wis., to stay until the end of that year. They then came to North Dakota and settled on a farm six miles northwest of Ellendale. Mr. Wright began working on the Commercial, an early Ellendale paper in 1890 and four years later he went to work on a newspaper in Britton, S.D. In 1896 he graduated from Ellendale high school and that same year was employed on the Aberdeen News. From December 1897 until October 1903 Mr. Wright was in partnership with F.S. Goddard as publishers of the Dickey County Leader and during the latter year he edited the paper wile Mr. Goddard managed the Oakes Republican, of which they were joint owners. He married Lillian Hodges, June 20, 1900 in Ellendale and in 1903 they moved to Oakes where he took over the sole operation of the Oakes Republican which became the Oakes Times in 1906. He continued to publish the Times until October 1919 when it was sold to Bast and Bassingwait. Following that he traveled and worked in Fargo and Seattle, Wash., for a year, was postmaster at Oakes from 1923 to 1933, when he retired and ran an apartment building which he owned there. Mrs. Wright died Jan. 22, 1948 and the next autumn he went to White Plains to live with his only daughter and her husband, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Hansen, where his death occurred. He had been ill since July 1949. Mr. Wright was a member of the Presbyterian church, the Masonic Lodge and Order of Eastern Star and the I.O.O.F. Besides his wife he was preceded in death by his son, Edward Sylvanus, which occurred at Fargo Nov. 5, 1937. He leaves his daughter Ruth, four grandchildren, two brothers, R.G. Wright of Ellendale and Matthew Wright of Philadelphia and four sisters, Mrs. (Elizabeth) C.L. Saunders of Ellendale, Mrs. Margaret Harkness, Belfast, Ireland, Mrs. Caroline Baer, Whitle Bear Lake, Minn., and Mrs. Glenn Holcomb, Newport, Ore.

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Alexander Robinson Wright's memorial is located at: Ellendale City Cemetery, Ellendale, Dickey County, USA.
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Alexander Robinson Wright death on 16 Apr 1951 in White Plains, Westchester County, New York, USA
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Latitude: 46.0039970
Longitude: -98.5050060

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Parent

Spouse

Lillian Ruth Hodges Wright

(1877 - 1948)

Siblings

Mary Wright Shimmin

(1867 - 1924)

Mary Wright Shimmin

(1867 - 1924)

Children

Edward Sylvanus Wright

(1901 - 1937)

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