• If you are having problems logging in please use the Contact Us in the lower right hand corner of the forum page for assistance.

Carroll County Iowa

Big Muddy rancher

Well-known member
Anybody out there from Carroll county?

I am looking for information about Robert Allen Wright born 1886 to Dr. and Mrs.Arthur Lea Wright. He started in college to become a doctor but quit and came to Saskatchewan to farm and ranch. He returned to Carrol around 1940 and had hotel and i don't know what else. That is what i am looking to find out.
He also left 1 million in his will to Iowa State U.

Any info would be welcome. He had at least one son who would be 85 now and possibly more. I heard mention of a daughter but i have no details.

Any help would be appreciated even in aspects on how to do a better search for info.

Thanks
 

cowwrangler

Well-known member
doesnt ring a bell BMR,there was a farmer just inside of iowa this summer that passed away and left millons to schools,hopitals,he was a bachlor and had no kin,he split the farm up betwween all the neighbors,he lived kinda fugal so it suprised everyone how much he left behind :shock:
 

Yanuck

Well-known member
BMR, there is this on Ancestry .com about him.....

Wright was a member of the Iowa State University class of 1913 and was an ISU Foundation governor, a member of the ISU Foundation's Order of the Knoll and was named Cy's favorite alum in 1976. He served as a director of Living History Farms and the Iowa Taxpayers Association.

Wright, who died in 1984, and his wife Estyl (deceased in 1985), established the Robert Allen Wright Endowment for Excellence through a $1 million bequest.



just looking thru the stuff, he was married twice, there was a son who was adopted, but no daughter I can see. the son Louis had 5 children, he died in 1999 in Iowa.....can look for more later if you like :)
 

Big Muddy rancher

Well-known member
Thanks guys, I have an article from 1935 out of the Drinkwater Sask. history books about him up until about 1940. and i have Iowa state archives sending me clippings about the endowment but it's in between that's still the mystery. He is the fellow that had this ranch before my grandfather.

It must have been a grand daughter that had brought him up once to visit the old neighbor but we weren't home so i never got to meet him.
What he did way back when is pretty surprising. I will put the story up here when i get it put together.
:)
 

Yanuck

Well-known member
BMR..found this on a message board on Ancestry....sounds like quite a guy!!


I also have a Robert (A. Allen) Wright in
my family line. He was my dad's adoptive
father. He did travel to Scotland on business and I do know he had mistresses
all over. He was quite the ladies man.
(handsome) and was married twice that I know of. He was originally from Carroll, Iowa and lived on a large farmland in Drinkwater, Regina,Sask., Canada, Retired and died back in Carroll, Iowa. Could there be a connection with your Robert Wright? 1st Wife Mabel J. Hadley, 2nd Estyl, last name unknown. Father, (DR.)Arthur Lee Mother, Adaline Hoover, aka Addie, Addy. Please email me if any of this sounds familiar. I also have 3 other names related to this bunch. Myron A.Wright, W.J. Hoover, and Mrs. Burke (1st name unknown, maiden name Hoover.)
 

Big Muddy rancher

Well-known member
Yanuck said:
BMR..found this on a message board on Ancestry....sounds like quite a guy!!


I also have a Robert (A. Allen) Wright in
my family line. He was my dad's adoptive
father. He did travel to Scotland on business and I do know he had mistresses
all over. He was quite the ladies man.
(handsome) and was married twice that I know of. He was originally from Carroll, Iowa and lived on a large farmland in Drinkwater, Regina,Sask., Canada, Retired and died back in Carroll, Iowa. Could there be a connection with your Robert Wright? 1st Wife Mabel J. Hadley, 2nd Estyl, last name unknown. Father, (DR.)Arthur Lee Mother, Adaline Hoover, aka Addie, Addy. Please email me if any of this sounds familiar. I also have 3 other names related to this bunch. Myron A.Wright, W.J. Hoover, and Mrs. Burke (1st name unknown, maiden name Hoover.)


That's the fellow. :)
Anybody i can get in contact with?

PM me. :)
 

katrina

Well-known member
burnt said:
katrina said:
Isn't there a song about Carroll county???

Yeah, it goes something like this - "Here we go A-Carroling . . ."

Funny!!!! Okay, I'm showing my age..... The song is about an accident where the guy and girl was killed and they found the guys wedding band in the glove box of the car.... Soap where are you... Now does it ring a bell???

Edited for spelling found/foung
 

Big Muddy rancher

Well-known member
katrina said:
burnt said:
katrina said:
Isn't there a song about Carroll county???

Yeah, it goes something like this - "Here we go A-Carroling . . ."

Funny!!!! Okay, I'm showing my age..... The song is about an accident where the guy and girl was killed and they found the guys wedding band in the glove box of the car.... Soap where are you... Now does it ring a bell???

Edited for spelling found/foung

The Carroll county incident. We had a hired man that sang that song alot. :D
 

mrj

Well-known member
I believe that song was set in Carroll county, Mississippi. Not sure of the singer. People I know in the area said it was based on fact........suppose that could be true in various places, tho.

mrj
 

katrina

Well-known member
Faster horses said:
The singer is/was Porter Wagoner.

I always thought it was "The Carroll County ACCIDENT"...

I'm sure you're right fh..... Of course it was way before my time so I wouldn't know......















NANNER, NANNER.......... GOTTCHA!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D :D :D :D
 
Top