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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.