American journalist, born in South Canaan, CT, on the 12th of February 1804; graduated at Yale in 1826, and three years later became professor of mathematics and natural philosophy in Western Reserve College, Hudson, OH. He was made secretary of the American Anti-Slavery Society, which was formed in Philadelphia in December, 1833, and removing to New York, he assisted in editing The Emancipator. Between that time and 1838 he successively conducted a paper called Human Rights and the Quarterly Anti-Slavery Magazine, and in 1839 became editor of the Massachusetts Abolitionist in Boston. In 1846 he established the Chronotype, a daily newspaper, which was merged in the Commonwealth in 1850. Mr. Wright’s house was once besieged by a mob on account of his antislavery sentiments. He was several times indicted for libel, in consequence of his editorial strictures on the liquor interests, and once, in 1851, for aiding a runaway slave to escape. Later in life he gave his attention to invention and mechanics, and to insurance interests. He died in Medford, MA, on the 21st of November 1885.
