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Biographical History of Cherokee County, Iowa
W. S. Dunbar & Co., Chigago - 1889

[page 450-451]

    O. S. WIGHT has been identified with the interests of Cherokee County
    since August, 1858. He was born in Coos County, New Hampshire, in the
    town of Milan, September 16, 1828, and is a son of WILLIAM and RHODA
    (ROWELL) WIGHT.  The father was born in Portland, Maine, in 1806, and
    was a son of NATHANIEL WIGHT, who was born in Boston, Massachusetts,
    in 1780. the mother was born in New Hampshire in 1806.  O. S. WIGHT
    was five years of age when his parents removed to Chemung County, New
    York; there the family lived until the fall of 1845 when they removed
    to Keokuk County, Iowa.  There Mr. WIGHT was married to Miss TILLITHA
    ORSBORN, November 28, 1854; she was born in Union County, Ohio, May
    17, 1828, and is a daughter of DaNIEL and DOROTHY (BURKETT) ORSBORN;
    the ORSBORN family came to Keokuk County in 1849.  In 1856 Mr. WIGHT
    removed to Crawford County, Iowa, and remained there two years, at
    the end of which time he came to Cherokee County, locating near the
    town of Cherokee; after residing there two years he moved four miles
    south of the town, and in 1865 he took a homestead on section 28,
    Pilot Township; this he sold in 1873, and located on his present farm,
    which consists of 120 acres in a good state of cultivation.  Mr. WIGHT
    and wife have two children living: ROSA BELLE, wife of M. S. DRAPER,
    of O'Brien County, and ALICE CARY, wife of SAMUEL SHOOK, of Cherokee
    County; five children have died; MARTHA ANN, JOHN MORRIS, ABBIE JANE,
    WILLIAM ARTHUR, and CHARLES ERNEST; the last-named son died a short
    time ago (1889); he was a young man of fine intellectual ability, and
    was respected and beloved by all who knew him.  Mr. WIGHT casts his
    suffrage with the Republican party; he has represented his township
    officially for many years as clerk, trustee and justice of the peace;
    he was elected county clerk in 1863, serving three years; he was also
    a member of the Board of County Supervisors, discharging his duties
    with much credit to himself and the best interests of the public.  He
    is a worthy and active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church; he
    was licensed to preach in Crawford County, Iowa, May 30, 1857; for a
    time he had charge of the Cherokee and Spirit Lake Circuit, preaching
    the first Methodist sermon in Cherokee County.  He has been a zealous
    worker in the cause of his Master, and has won the confidence and
    esteem of all who know him.

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