Worthman, Harry Stephen – Wright, Crafts James
Worthman, Harry Stephen
lawyer, jurist, was born June 11, 1866, in Newtown, near Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1891 he settled in Boise City, Idaho, where he has attained success in the practice of law.
In 1894 he was elected probate judge and ex-officio county superintendent of public instruction, receiving the re-election in 1896.
Wortman, Denis
clergyman, author, poet, was born April 30, 1835, in Hopewell, N. Y. This eminent clergyman is the author of a number of hymns that have passed into standard hymn-books.
Relics of The Christ is considered one of the best poetic productions of the age.
Wortman, Joseph A
lawyer, was born Sept. 11, 1863, in Berlin, Prussia. He has been a member of the Dayton, Ohio, tax commission; and in 1891 was elected mayor of that city, but was counted out on a technicality. He is prominent in public affairs, and a member of various fraternal orders.
Wren, Thomas
lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 2, 1826, in McArthurstown, Ohio. He was city attorney of Austin, Nev., in 1874-76; and was a representative in the Nevada legislature in 1875. He was elected a representative from Nevada to the forty-fifth congress as a republican.
Wright, Albert J
lawyer, writer, was born Aug. 8, 1850, in Angelica, N. Y.
In early life he taught school, then took up civil engineering and land surveying; and has done considerable newspaper work. In 1880 he was admitted to the bar; was clerk of the probate court of Allegany county, N. Y., for a period of twelve years; and is now one of the foremost lawyers of his native state at Bradford.
Wright, Albert O
manufacturer, author, was born June 23, 1842, in Rome, N. Y. He has been president of the Wisconsin Female college; editor of the Wisconsin Journal of Education; and president of the Midland School and Supply He is the author of a textcompany. book on the United States Constitution; and a text-book on the Wisconsin Constitution.
Wright, Ammi W
lumberman, was born July 5, 1822, in Grafton, Vt. He is the head of the A. W. Wright Lumber company. which owns large areas of pine lands, together with large saw mills and salt blocks at Saginaw, Mich. In 1885 he married Anna Case of Exeter, Ontario, and in the following year moved to Alma on Pine river, thirty miles west of Saginaw.
Here he built the Wright house, one of the finest hotels in the state; the Alma sanitarium, one of the largest and best equipped remedial institutions in the country; and other large and substantial structures and donated the land and building which secured the establishment of Alma college.
Wright, Andrew Fleming
lawyer, jurist, was born Dec. 25, 1851, in Franklin, Mo. He has filled various public offices in Barron county, Wis.; has been police justice of Cumberland, Wis.; and was elected judge of the third municipal court for Barron county, Wis. In 1894-95 he served as a member of the board of education of Ashland, Wis., in which city he has attained prominence as an able lawyer.
Wright, Arthur Williams
physicist, educator, was born Sept. 8, 1836, in Lebanon, Conn. Since 1885 he has had charge of the Sloane Physical laboratory at Yale, which was constructed under his supervision. He was the first to observe and describe the electric shadow in 1870- 71; devised a new apparatus for the production of ozone, and investigated its action upon alcohol and ether in 1872-74; also in 1874 determined the polarization of the zodiacal light, measuring its amount and investigated its spectrum.
Wright, Asher
missionary, author, was born Sept. 7, 1803, in Hanover, N. H.
He was a missionary to Seneca Indians; translated parts of New Testament; and published elementary school books and hymnal in their language; and wrote Interesting Narrative of Mary Jenison. He died April 13, 1875, in Cattaraugus, N. Y.
Wright, Ashley Bascom
public official, congressman, was born in Hinsdale, Mass. In 1884 he was elected county commissioner for the county of Berkshire, serving for three years; in 1890 was elected to the executive council of Massachusetts; and re-elected in 1891. He was elected from North Adams, Mass., to the fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses, and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican. He died Aug. 21, 1897, in North Adams, Mass.
Wright, Augustus B
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born June 16, 1813, in Wrightsborough, Ga. At the age of twenty-nine he was elected circuit judge; resigned before the expiration of the second term, and was elected a representative from Georgia to the thirty-fourth congress; and was re-elected to the thirty-fifth congress. He took part in the rebellion.
Wright, Benjamin F
farmer, legislator, jurist, was born Dec. 8, 1845, in Hillsdale county, Mich. He served in the civil war in company G, twenty-second regiment Wisconsin volunteer infantry, and was confined in the Libby prison.
For four years he was judge of probate of Moody county, S. D.; and in 1896 was elected a member of the South Dakota state legislature.
Wright, C. B
railroad president, was born June 17, 1859, in Erie, Pa. He is president of the Rio Grande and Eagle Pass railway at Philadelphia, Pa.
Wright, Mrs. C. M. H
author, poet, was born June 3, 1836. For over thirty years she has contributed extensively to the periodical press. She has given much time to temperance work; is the author of several dramas; and her poems have been given a place in Poets of America and other standard works.
Wright, Carroll Davidson
soldier, lawyer, statistician, was born July 25, 1840, in Dunbarton, N. H. During the civil war he enlisted as a private in the fourteenth regiment New Hampshire volunteer infantry; and rose to the rank of colonel. In 1872-73 he served with distinction in the Massachusetts state senate; was presidential elector on the republican ticket in 1876; chief of the Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics of Labor during 1873-88; and since 1885 has been United States commissioner of labor. He has received the honorary degrees of M. A. from Tufts college, and LL. D.. from the Wesleyan university. He has been president of the American Statistical association; and is a member and fellow of many American and foreign scientific bodies. He is the author of Census of Massachusetts, 1875; The Factory System of the United States; The Relation of Political Economy to the Labor Question; Annual Reports of Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics, 1873- 88; Convict Labor; Strikes and Lockouts; Working Women in Large Cities; Railroad Labor; Marriage and Divorce; Cost of Production of Iron, Steel, etc.; Cost of Production of Textiles and Glass; and Industrial Evolution of the United States.
CHARLES WRIGHT, BARSTOW, financier, journalist, was born Jan. 8, 1822, in Bradford county, Pa. In 1863 he engaged actively in developing the petroleum interests of In Pennsylvania. 1870, as director and afterward as president, he undertook the work of pushing the Northern Pacific railroad to completion. He moved to Boston in 1839, and became editor of the Massachusetts Abolitionist. For several years he was connected with the press, and in 1846 he established the Chronotype, a daily newspaper, which he conducted until it was merged in the Commonwealth.
Wright, Charles Edward
physician, educator, was born Nov. 1, 1843, in Indianapolis, Ind. In 1869 he was demonstrator of anatomy in the Indiana Medical college, and subsequently professor of materia medica and therapeutics in and secretary of the same institution, and afterwards its president. He is also a member of the staff at the City hospital, and physician to St.
John's Home for Invalids. In 1875 and 1876 he was president of the Indianapolis board of health; was president of the Indiana Medico-Legal fraternity in 1877 and 1878, and at present fills the chair of materia medica and therapeutics in the Medical college of Indiana, the medical department of Butler university.
Wright, Charles Edward
lawyer, jurist, was born Dec. 17, 1867, in Battle Creek, Mich. He is a successful lawyer of Whitefield, N. H.; and is attorney for several large railroads. In 1896 he was commissioned judge of the municipal court for life by the governor of New Hampshire.
Wright, Charles W
lawyer, jurist, was born Dec. 2, 1847, near East Campbellsville, Ky. In 1882 he was admitted to the practice of law, and has attained success in that profession at Campbellsville, Ky. For twelve years he was county court clerk; for ten years was receiver of state and county taxes; and for four years served with distinction as judge of the city court.
Wright, Crafts James
soldier, journalist, was born July 13, 1808, in Troy, N. Y. In 1840 he was assistant editor of the Cincinnati Gazette; and during 1847- 54 was president of the Gazette company.
He served with distinction through the civil war, and attained the rank of brigadier-general. He died July 23, 1883, in Chicago, Ill.
HERRINGSHAW'S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN RIOGRAPHY.