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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, 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

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.