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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.