Harold Bell Wright (1872 - 1944)

Born 4 May 1872 in Rome, Oneida Co, New York, United States

Husband of Winifred Mary (Unknown) Wright — married 5 Aug 1920 in San Diego, San Diego, California, United States

Descendants

Died 24 May 1944 at age 72 in La Jolla, San Diego Co, California, United States

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Biography

Harold Wright is Notable.

Author. He wrote The Shepherd of the Hills which later became a passion play and became a movie starring John Wayne. For the first quarter of the 20th century he outsold every other author, and is alleged to have been the first American author to sell over a million copies of a single novel and to have earned over $1,000,000 writing works of fiction.

Harold Wright is buried in Greenwood Memorial Park.

Sources

• Find A Grave: Memorial #11360
• Wikipedia:Harold Bell Wright

• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZZW-Y2W : 20 August 2017), Harry Wright in household of William A Wright, Sennett, Cayuga, New York, United States; citing enumeration district ED 36, sheet 309A, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 0814; FHL microfilm 1,254,814.

• "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MMTD-2BR : accessed 25 February 2018), Harold B Wright, Pittsburg city Ward 4, Crawford, Kansas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 87, sheet 2A, family 25, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,477.

• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XH17-DZZ : accessed 25 February 2018), Harold B Wright, Tanque Verde, Pima, Arizona, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 28, sheet 2B, line 60, family 38, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 61; FHL microfilm 2,339,796.

• "California Death Index, 1940-1997," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VPQ6-ZYF : 26 November 2014), Harold Bell Wright, 24 May 1944; Department of Public Health Services, Sacramento.