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WRIGHT, HARPER, M.D.
Vol. 5, p. 1833, 1834

Many of the new towns in Western Oklahoma are attracting
professional men of decidedly superior attainments and training, and
the general average of proficiency and ability to be found among the
professional men of these new communities is decidedly higher than
that which prevailed in the older part of the state in earlier years.
An example of these younger leaders in the professional life of
Western Oklahoma is Dr. Harper Wright, a physician and surgeon who
has recently taken up practice at Grandfield.

Born at Farill, Alabama, November 23, 1887, Harper Wright attended
the public schools there, graduated from the Gaylesville High School
in Alabama with the class of 1904, in 1907 finished the course of the
noted old Webb Preparatory School at Bellbuckle, Tennessee, and in
the same year took a business course in Eastman's Business College at
Poughkeepsie, New York. In 1913 Doctor Wright was graduated from the
Atlanta College of Physicians and Surgeons at Atlanta, Georgia. His
thorough training in preparation for the profession also included one
year spent as interne (sic) at the Erlanger Hospital in Chattanooga,
Tennessee, and for six months he was associated with an eminent
surgeon, Dr. Raymond WALLACE, F.A.C.S., of Chattanooga.

The Wright family came from England to Georgia prior to the
Revolution, and was related to the family of General Oglethorpe, the
founder and leader of the Georgia colony. Doctor Wright's father was
A. R. Wright, who was born at Cave Springs, Georgia, in 1859, and for
the past thirty years has been prominently identified with the
business community at Farill, Alabama, where he has been a merchant,
a farmer and stock raiser, sawmill owner, manufacturer of charcoal,
and with practically every enterprise of any importance in that town.

He died March 1, 1916. His wife was Effie STEWART, who was born at
Atlanta Georgia, in 1867, and died at Farill, Alabama, in July 1911.
Doctor Wright was the older of their children, and the others were:
Annie, wife of J. F. MCGEE, who is assistant to the secretary and
treasurer of the Anchor Duck Mills at Rome, Georgia; Gus, who is a
farmer at Farill, Alabama; Margaret, wife of Lewis LILLEY, of Parrot,
Georgia; and Mose, attending the preparatory school at Rome, Georgia.

Doctor Wright was married in September 1914, at Indianapolis,
Indiana, to Ellen C. GALLAGHER, whose home was formerly in Winona,
Minnesota. She is a member of the Catholic Church. Doctor Wright
belongs to the Phil Chi Greek letter medical fraternity, is a member
of the Baptist Church, and has fraternal affiliations with Lodge No.
91, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, at Chattanooga,
Tennessee, with Grandfield Lodge No. 378, Ancient Free and Accepted
Masons; with Gaylesville Lodge No. 256, Independent Order of Odd
Fellows in Alabama; and with Banyan Camp No. 573, Woodmen of the
World at Grandfield. He located for practice at Grandfield, Oklahoma,
September 23, 1914, and already enjoys a substantial practice and
reputation as a physician and surgeon. His offices are in the Tillman
County Bank Building.

Typed for OKGenWeb by Jeanne M. Misleh, 20 July, 1999.

SOURCE: Thoburn, Joseph B., A Standard History of Oklahoma, An
Authentic Narrative of its Development, 5 v. (Chicago, New York: The
American Historical Society, 1916).