James Wright
James Wright was a second-class passenger on the Valencia. Just 16 years old, a year ago he was living in Seattle with his mother as The Vancouver Daily News Advertiser reported:
"Last winter he was induced to go to Port Townsend and while there he was shanghaied aboard a vessel bound for Australia. From Australia, young Wright shipped for Peru on another sailing craft and later returned to San Francisco about three weeks ago and at once wrote to his mother. The boy was in good health but was practically without means as he had been obliged to work his passage up the Coast from South America. Mrs. Wright sent her son money to defray his expenses home and he left San Francisco as a second cabin passenger on the ill-fated Valencia."