Biography extracted from History of Sauk County, Wisconsin Chicago: Western Historical Company, published 1880.

Fairfield:

John Wrightmyer, proprietor of general repair and blacksmith shop, and farmer, Sec. 5; P. O. Baraboo; was born in Prince Edward Township, Ontario District, Canada, Nov. 25, 1832; he came to Madison, Wis., in 1850, and there learned the blacksmith trade; in about 1853, he came to Sauk Co. and engaged in blacksmithing in Baraboo until the breaking-out of the war of the rebellion, when he enlisted in Co. A, 2d W. V. I.; was in active service three years, at the end of which time he received an honorable discharge; after his discharge, he worked six months for the Government in Nashville, Tenn.; then returned to Baraboo where he remained until 1867, when he came to Fairfield and established a general repair and blacksmith shop in which he does a good business; he also owns a well-located farm of about 100 acres; He married, in Madison, Wis., Electa A. Ames; she was born in Oneida Co., N. Y., and came to Wisconsin with her parents prior to its becoming a State; her grandfather, Nathaniel Ames, was a soldier of distinction in the Colonial army; her father, Ira L. Ames, was a soldier in the 17th W. V. I., and in the war of the rebellion, and died in the service; two of her brothers also saw service in the war, Edgar and Harvey B. Ames, the former dying in the service at Arlington Heights, the latter is now a resident of Illinois. In Politics, Mr. Wrightmyer is a Republican.

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