Marshall Sheldon Wright, Jr. (1922-2010), the father of Virginia Wright-Frierson, was born in Ogden, Utah, in 1922 where his father MSWSr (see previous post) was stationed as Chief of the Surveying and Mapping Division of the U. S. Forest Service in that region.

Within two years, the Marshall Wright family moved to Northern Virginia, where MSW Sr. took a new job at Forest Service Headquarters in Washington, D.C.  There Marshall Jr. grew up and graduated in 1939 from Washington and Lee High School in Arlington, Virginia. He went on to Blacksburg, Va. and obtained a BS in Civil Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute in 1943, and was immediately commissioned into the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and served in Patton’s Third Army in England, France, and Germany.  Following the war, Marshall returned to the U.S. and began his long career in photogrammetric mapping and surveying in the public and private sector.  In 1991, he was elected honorary member of the American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing recognizing his 45 years of distinguished service to the profession.  Click on this link    MSWrightJr      to read the full text of the citation announcing his election and to see some photographs from his personal life and his professional career as well.  Enjoy!