So, after all, is not the heart of man the real man and is it not
the guiding star of his ambition, his will, his determination, his
conscience?
Harold Bell Wright, the second of four sons, was born May 4, 1872, in
Rome, Oneida County, New York. From an earlier biographer we quote the
following:
"Some essential facts must be dug from out the past where they lie
embedded in the detrital chronicles of the race. Say, then, that away
back in 1640 a ship load of Anglo-Saxon freedom landed in New England.
After a brief period some of the more venturesome spirits emigrated to
the far west and settled amid the undulations of the Mohawk valley
in central New York. Protestant France also sent westward some
Gallic chivalry hungering for freedom. The fringe of this garment of
civilization spread out and reached also into the same valley. English
determination and Huguenot aspiration touched elbows in the war for
political and religious freedom, and touched hearts and hands in
the struggle for economic freedom. Their generations were a genuine
aristocracy. Mutual struggles after mutual aims cemented casual
acquaintance into enduring friendship. William Wright met, loved
and married Alma T. Watson. To them four sons were born. A carpenter
contractor, a man who builds, contrives and constructs, is joined to
a woman into whose soul of wholesome refinement come images of dainty
beauty, where they glow and grow radiant.
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