I seem to be missing the first part of this, but here is what I have:
David Joy Wright was a native of this city for he was born in Northampton 57 years ago, Feb. 9, 1851. He ____ passed practically all of his life here and was one of the most widely known of Northampton citizens. He was the son of Asa Wright, for many years farmer at the State hospital, and Mrs. Harriet Clark Wright, another member of an old family. Mr. Wright was educated in the public schools, grew up amid the healthy influence of country surroundings and then went to work in a store. His first employment was in the store of Spaulding and Stockwell at the corner of Main and Pleasant streets and there he remained for a number of years. Later he became proprietor of the store and for a long time the store of D.J. Wright was the meeting place for all the country people for miles around. In the end financial reverses came and for a number of years before his death Mr. Wright had been engaged in a general trading business, swapping horses and other animals, trading and selling carriages and farm vehicles and transacting other matters of business in his own way and according to the fashion of the old fashion trader of many years ago. He was an auctioneer and to the delight of his own heart and the intense pleasure and satisfaction of hundreds of others officiated at auctions all over the western part of the state. He had friends and business acquaintances from the edge of Worcester county to the New York state line and was held in particular kind of regard by all who were privileged to know him.
Mr. Wright leaves his wife and two sons. Mrs. Wright before her marriage Miss Jane C. Reed of the city. The sons are Edward N. Wright of the city, a graduate of Amherst College in the class of 1907, and David S. Wright who is now in Amherst College. There is one brother, Charles B. Wright of Haverhill, Mass. Mr. Wright was a member of the Edwards church but aside from that had no affiliations with any organization.
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