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Wright, Martha () | Marriage Date: 11-18-1829

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David Wright was the second husband of Martha Coffin Pelham Wright. They met while she was teaching drawing and writing at a Quaker school, and the couple married and eventually moved to Auburn, NY. Together, they had six children: Eliza "Lidy" Wright (1830 – 1911), Matthew Tallman Wright (1832 – 1854), Ellen Wright Garrison (1840 – 1931), William Pelham Wright (1842 – 1902), Francis "Frank" Wright (1844 – 1903), and Charles Edward Wright (1848 – 1849). William Pelham Wright served in the Civil War.

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David Wright was the second husband of Martha Coffin Pelham Wright. They met while she was teaching drawing and writing at a Quaker school, and the couple married and eventually moved to Auburn, NY. Together, they had six children: Eliza "Lidy" Wright (1830 – 1911), Matthew Tallman Wright (1832 – 1854), Ellen Wright Garrison (1840 – 1931), William Pelham Wright (1842 – 1902), Francis "Frank" Wright (1844 – 1903), and Charles Edward Wright (1848 – 1849). William Pelham Wright served in the Civil War.
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18630709FAS_AWS1; http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=15789902
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"The Wrights lived on Genesee Street (in Auburn), around the corner from the Sewards. Martha’s husband, David, was a lawyer who had worked in 1846 as a partner with William Henry Seward on one of his most famous cases, defending William Freeman, an African American accused of murder, on a plea of insanity. Beginning in 1827, Martha Wright, raised a Quaker, taught at the Aurora school attended earlier by Frances Seward and Lazette Worden, and the three women shared a strong commitment to abolitionism and women’s rights. "
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http://www.cayugacounty.us/portals/0/history/ugrr/report/PDF/4b.pdf
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https://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/o/osborne_fam.htm - see Martha Coffin Wright's entry in the biographical section of the Osborne Family Papers
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http://trees.ancestrylibrary.com/tree/26006424/person/1760505976