Born at Elgin, Illinois, Wright graduated from the Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1869. Served in the Navy for 2 years in South America. Studied Civil Engineering under Cleveland and French, engineers and landscape architects, during which time he worked on the Illinois and Michigan Canal. Arrived in Santa Barbara, 1875, and made an early map of the city. After heart troubles, he went to Washington State where he laid out the city of Spokane. He also located for the Union Pacific "a pass for another overland railway through the Sierra Nevada Mountains ... much lower, and a better Pass than that now used by the Central Pacific." Back in Santa Barbara he served as City Engineer for three years, making a survey of the city's water supplies. His obituary stated, "Clean hands had he, and a pure heart." Responsible for early influential design of Santa Barbara Cemetery, converting it from a town cemetery to a rural cemetery.
Born at Elgin, Illinois, Wright graduated from the Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1869. Served in the Navy for 2 years in South America. Studied Civil Engineering under Cleveland and French, engineers and landscape architects, during which time he worked on the Illinois and Michigan Canal. Arrived in Santa Barbara, 1875, and made an early map of the city. After heart troubles, he went to Washington State where he laid out the city of Spokane. He also located for the Union Pacific "a pass for another overland railway through the Sierra Nevada Mountains ... much lower, and a better Pass than that now used by the Central Pacific." Back in Santa Barbara he served as City Engineer for three years, making a survey of the city's water supplies. His obituary stated, "Clean hands had he, and a pure heart." Responsible for early influential design of Santa Barbara Cemetery, converting it from a town cemetery to a rural cemetery.
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