Wright, Ammi W
lumberman, was born July 5, 1822, in Grafton, Vt. He is the head of the A. W. Wright Lumber company. which owns large areas of pine lands, together with large saw mills and salt blocks at Saginaw, Mich. In 1885 he married Anna Case of Exeter, Ontario, and in the following year moved to Alma on Pine river, thirty miles west of Saginaw.
Here he built the Wright house, one of the finest hotels in the state; the Alma sanitarium, one of the largest and best equipped remedial institutions in the country; and other large and substantial structures and donated the land and building which secured the establishment of Alma college.