One of a Thousand/Wright, Walter Melvin
Wright, Walter Melvin, son of Asa and Polly (Chase) Wright, was born in Hanover, Grafton county, N. H., May 22, 1846, and was the youngest of four children—a daughter and three sons.
He received his early mental training in the common schools. In 1862 he entered Perkins Academy, South Woodstock, Vt., and studied and taught in this institution until 1867. He was graduated A. M. at Dartmouth College in 1871, and M. D. in 1874.
Walter M. Wright.
He was associated in the practice of medicine with M. C. Edmunds, M. D., Weston, Vt., from July, 1874, till July, 1876, when he removed to Massachusetts and opened an office in Cooleyville, practicing there until 1880, when he settled in Orange, where he has been engaged in active general practice in medicine and surgery to the present time.
Dr. Wright was married in Weston, Vt., January 3, 1875, to Ella J., daughter of Nathan and Lavina (Webster) Holt. Of this union is one child: Aldine Louise Wright, born February 28, 1878.
He was commissioned by Governor Robinson, June 26, 1884, a medical examiner in Franklin county. He is president of the Franklin District Medical Society, and one of the vice-presidents of the Massachusetts Medical Society.
He is a prominent Odd Fellow, and an active and ardent member of various Masonic bodies; was master of Orange Lodge, F. & A. M., 1883, '84, and '85, and D. D. grand master of the 13th Masonic district, 1886 and '87.