John Mill Wright, M.D.

John Mill Wright, M.D., of No. 979 Griggs avenue, Grand Rapids, is a native of this city, was born August 31, 1873, and is a son of Dr. P. P. and Victoria (Peck) Wright, the former from Wisconsin and the latter from Pennsylvania, and the parents of five children besides the doctor, viz: Paul E., an instructor in gymnastics, in Indianapolis;

Lawrence O., a dentist in Grand Rapids; Max G., a professor of the French and German languages in Stanford university; Henry P., a mechanic in Indianapolis, and Lillian (Wright) Dean, wife of John C. Dean, of the Dean Brothers steam pump works, also of Indianapolis.

Dr. John Mill Wright graduated from the Grand Rapids high school in 1892, and from the Detroit college of Medicine in 1895, having taken a three years course at the latter, and at once began practice in the same office he now occupies. He at present is serving his second term as lecture on materia medica and therapeutics in the Grand Rapids Medical college; is also a member of the board of education, in which he is a member of the committee on special training, and the committees on school library and apparatus and grounds. He is also a member of the I. O. O. F., the Golden Cross, the International Congress, and the Royal Templars, for all of which he is medical examiner, as well as for the Fraternal Alliance, and court physician for the Foresters. In Politics he is a republican.

Dr. Wright was joined in matrimony in Grand Rapids, in 1892, with Miss Frances Dreggs, a native of the city, a daughter of John Dreggs, the well known lumberman, and graduate from the city high school. This union has been graced with one bright little daughter, Lillian Victoria, now five years of age.

Dr. Wright is a young professional gentleman of extraordinary prospects, as his training under the tutorship of the most eminent physicians of the city, together with his adaptability for the profession and his personal proficiency and affability, fully indicate.