Wright, John Vines – Wyant, Alexander H
Wright, John Vines
lawyer, congressman, was born June 28, 1828, in Purdy, Tenn. He was elected a representative to the thirty-fourth and thirty-fifth congresses from Tennessee; and was reelected to the thirty-sixth congress.
Wright, Joseph Albert
lawyer, congressman, governor, United States senator, was born April 17, 1810, in Washington, Pa. In 1833 he was elected to the Indiana state legislature; in 1840 was elected to the state senate; and from 1843 to 1845 he was a representative in congress. He was governor of Indiana from 1849 to 1857; and during the latter year was appointed minister to Prussia. In 1862 he was appointed a senator in congress; and in 1863 was appointed commissioner to attend the Hamburg exhibition. In 1865 he was appointed for the second time minister to Prussia. He died May 11, 1867, in Berlin, Germany.
WRIGHT, MRS. JULIA [MCNAIR], author, was born May 1, 1840, in Oswego, N. Y. She is a prolific writer of temperance and religious tales, the latter being strongly anti-Roman catholic in character. Among them are Almost a Nun; Priest and Nun; Scenes of the Convent; *The Gospel in the Riviera; A Wife Hard Won; and A Million Too Much.
WRIGHT, MRS. MABEL [OSGOOD], author, was born in 1859 in New York.
She is a nature writer of Fairfield, Conn.; and the author of The Friendship of Nature, a series of out-door studies; Birdcraft, a field-book of New England Birds; Tommy-Anne and the Three Hearts: a Natural History Story; and Citizen Bird, a bird book for beginners.
Wright, Marcus Joseph
soldier, lawyer, author, was born June 5, 1831, in Purdy, Tenn. He was a brigadier-general in the confederate army during the civil war, and subsequently a lawyer of Memphis. He is the author of Life of General Winfield Scott; Life of Governor William Blount; and Reminiscences of the Early Settlement of McNairy County, Tenn.
WRIGHT, MRS. MARY [TAPPAN], author, was born in 1851 in Ohio. She is a writer of Cambridge, the wife of Professor J. H. Wright of Harvard university; and the author of A Truce, and Other Stories.
Wright, Maurice Laughlin
lawyer, jurist, was born Nov. 27, 1845, in Scriba, N. Y. In his youth he taught school, and in 1864 enlisted in the navy, and was on the United States gunboat Valley City in the North Atlantic squadron under the command of Admiral Porter. In 1870 he graduated from the Columbian college law school of Washington, D. C., with the degree of LL. B.
During 1879-81 he was president of the village of Mexico, N. Y.; and in 1883 was elected county judge, receiving the reelection in 1889. In 1890 he was appointed a member of the constitutional commission to revise the judiciary articles of the constitution. In 1891 he was elected justice of the supreme court for the fifth judicial district, and two years later moved to Oswego, N. Y.
Wright, Myron B
congressman, was born June 12, 1847, in Lake Forest, Pa. He has been largely interested in several financial, business, and manufacturing enterprises in Susquehanna, Pa. He was elected to the fifty-first congress; and was re-elected to the fifty-second congress as a republican.
Wright, Robert
congressman, United States senator, governor, was born about 1765 in Kent county, Md. He was a senator in congress from Maryland from 1801 to 1806, when he resigned. He was at one time member of the state executive council. He was governor of Maryland from 1806 to 1809. He was a representative in congress from Maryland from 1810 to 1817; and was re-elected for the term. from 1821 to 1823. He died Sept. 7, 1826, in Queenstown, Md.
Wright, Robert William
lawyer, journalist, author, was born Feb. 22, 1816, in Ludlow, Vt. He was a Connecticut lawyer and journalist; and the author of The Church Knaviad; Vision of Judgment; The Pious Chi-Neh; Life: its True Genesis, a refutation of evolution; and Practical Legal Forms. He died Jan. 9, 1885, in Cleveland, Ohio.
Wright, Samuel G
congressman, was born in 1787. At the time of his death he was a member-elect of congress from New Jersey. He died July 30, 1845, near Allentown, N. J. a
Wright, Silas
soldier, lawyer, United States senator, was born May 24, 1795, in Amherst, Mass. In 1819 he settled in the practice of the law at Canton, St Lawrence county, N. Y. He was soon made magistrate and postmaster of his town, and surrogate of his county; and early raised a uniformed militia rifle company, of which he was unanimously chosen captain, from which position he rose to be colonel of a rifle regiment, and became a brigadier-general of infantry in 1827. He was elected to the state senate in 1823, and served until 1827, when he took his seat in congress; and was re-elected in 1828. He was chosen United States senator in 1833; was re-elected in 1837, and again in 1843, and continued to serve until 1844. In 1844 he was elected governor of New York. He died Aug. 27, 1847, in Canton, N. Y.
Wright, Thomas Lee
physician, journalist, author, was born Aug. 7, 1825, in Windham, Ohio. He is a physician and journalist of Bellefontaine, Ohio; and the author of Notes on the Theory of Human Existence; Disquisition on the Ancient History of Medicine; and Inebriism: a Pathological and Psychological Study.
Wright, Turbett
congressman. He was a delegate from Maryland to the continental congress from 1781 to 1782.
Wright, William
congressman, United States senator, governor, was born in 1794 in Clarkstown, N. Y. He served as mayor of Newark, N. J., in 1840-43; and was a representative in congress from New Jersey from 1843 to 1847. In 1853 he was elected a senator in congress for the term ending in 1859, serving as chairman of the committee manufactures, and that on the contingent expenses of the on senate. In 1863 he was again elected to the senate for the term ending in 1869, serving on the committees on manufactures, public lands, and revolutionary claims. He died Nov. 1, 1866, in Newark.
Wright, William
journalist, author, was born in 1824 in Ireland. He was a journalist of Paterson, N. J.; and the author of The Oil Regions of Pennsylvania. He died March 13, 1886, in Paterson, N. J.
Wright, William Arter
educator, clergyman, was born Jan. 23, 1857, in New Cumberland, Ohio. In 1878 he established the Conception college in Chile, South America. He has filled the chair of historical theology in the Maclay School of Theology of San Fernando, Cal.
He is a distinguished clergyman of the methodist episcopal church; and has filled pastorates in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and California.
Wright, William Bull
physician, educator, author, poet, was born Sept. 29, 1840, in Orange county, N. Y. He was a physician and educator of Buffalo; and the author of Highland Rambles, a Poem; and The Brook, and Other Poems. He died March 29, 1880, in Atlanta, Ga.
Wright, William Burnet
clergyman, author, was born in 1836 in Ohio.
He is a congregational clergyman of Boston, and more recently of Buffalo; and the author of Ancient Cities from the Dawn to the Daylight; The World to Come; and Master and Men: the Sermon on the Mountain Practiced on the Plain.
Wright, William Henry
civil engineer, author, was born in 1814 in Wilmington, N. C. He was a military engineer in government service; and the author of Brief Practical Treatise on Mortars. He died Dec. 29, 1845, in Wilmington, N. C.
Wright, William James
clergyman, educator, author, was born Aug. 3, 1831, in Weybridge, Vt. He is a presbyterian clergyman and educator, and professor of metaphysics at Westminster college, Missouri, from 1887. He is the author of Tracts on Higher Mathematics.
Wuchter, Astor Clinton
linguist, clergyman, poet, was born Feb. 4, 1856, in Jacksonville, Pa. He attended the Millersville State Normal school; studied three years in Paris; and attended the Lutheran Theological seminary of Philadelphia, Pa. He has been professor of languages in Paris, France; has been a successful instructor in music; and gained a national reputation as an eminent lutheran clergyman of Pennsylvania, and has filled pastorates in that state at Summit Hill, Weissport, and Gilbert. He is also the author of a number of meritorious poems which have appeared in current literature.
Wurtz, John
congressman. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1825 to 1827. He died April 23, 1861, in Rome, Italy.
Wyant, Alexander H
artist, was born Jan. 11, 1836, in Port Washington, Ohio. He was elected an associate of the National academy in 1868, and an academician the following year. Among his works in oil are A Storm; Staten Island, from the Jersey Meadows; Scene on the Upper Susquehanna; Shore of Lake Champlain; and Pool on the Ausable. His water-colors include Scene on the Upper Little Miami; New Jersey Meadows; Sunset on the Prairie; Late Autumn, Ausable River; and Reminiscence of the Connecticut. He died Nov. 29, 1892. in New York.