Jonathan Jasper Wright (1840-1885)

Jonathan Jasper Wright (1840-1885) is a Pennsylvania historical marker in Susquehanna County, dedicated 2001.

PA 29 & Cemetery St. (T361)

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Jurist, educator, politician. The son of runaway slaves, Wright became the first black lawyer in Pennsylvania. He supported Frederick Douglass in advocating suffrage and legal equality for blacks. During Reconstruction in 1870, he was appointed South Carolina State Supreme Court justice, the first African American United States Appellate Judge. Wright's boyhood home was here in Springville.

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1865 · County map of the State of Pennsylvania (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1870 · Asher & Adams' New York, Meteorological Map. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1871 · Colton's Township Pennsylvania (1871) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1876 · Railway Map of the State of Pennsylvania (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1878 · Pennsylvania. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

County map of the State of Pennsylvania, 1865, covering the location of Jonathan Jasper Wright (1840-1885), with a pin at the marker's coordinates — County map of the State of Pennsylvania, 1865, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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Jonathan Jasper Wright (1840-1885)

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