Springville in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania — The American Northeast (Mid-Atlantic)

Jonathan Jasper Wright (1840-1885)

Jonathan Jasper Wright Marker image. Click for full size.

August 5, 2011

1. Jonathan Jasper Wright Marker

Inscription. 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.

Erected 2001 by Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.

Topics and series. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: African Americans • Civil Rights • Government & Politics. In addition, it is included in the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC) series list. A significant historical year for this entry is 1870.

Location. 41° 41.714′ N, 75° 55.123′ W. Marker is in Springville, Pennsylvania, in Susquehanna County. It is at the intersection of Route 29 and Cemetery Street, on the right when traveling north on Route 29. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Tunkhannock PA 18657, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in Pennsylvania’s

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Wyoming Valley.

It is also in the American Northeast,

in the Mid-Atlantic,

in Appalachia,

and specifically in Northern Appalachia. Globally, it is in North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy

and also one of the original Thirteen Colonies.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 9 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Perkins-Dennis Cemetery and Monument (approx. 8½ miles away); Perkins Dennis Family Cemetery (approx. 8½ miles away); The Dennis Farm's Perkins Homestead and Cemetery (approx. 8½ miles away); World War II Memorial (approx. 8½ miles away); America250PA Semiquincentennial Bell (approx. 8.6 miles away); The Dennis Farm Stonewalls (approx. 8.6 miles away); Dennis Farmhouse (approx. 8.6 miles away); Perkins Homestead and Dennis Farm Fields (approx. 8.6 miles away).

Also see . . . Jonathan J. Wright - BlackPast.org. (Submitted on August 30, 2011, by Bill Pfingsten of Bel Air, Maryland.)

Hon. J. J. Wright Judge of the Supreme Court of South Carolina image. Click for full size.

Internet Archive

2. Hon. J. J. Wright Judge of the Supreme Court of South Carolina

from Harper's Weekly, March 5,1870, p. 149, after a photo by Wearn and Hix.

Credits. This page was last revised on October 26, 2024. It was originally submitted on August 26, 2011. This page has been viewed 1,387 times since then and 58 times this year. Photos: 1. submitted on August 26, 2011. 2. submitted on February 13, 2019, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland. • Bill Pfingsten was the editor who published this page.