WRIGHT
WRIGHT
battle his brigade, together with those of Wilcox
and Perry, outflanked Huniplirey's right and
left, General Wriglit breaking tlirougli the
Union line and seizing the guns in front. He
also commanded liis brigade in the defence of
Richmond against Grant's campaign, taking part
in the battle of Cold Harbor, June 1, 1864. lu
the later defence of Petersburg and Richmond,
the command of his brigade devolved on Gen.
G. M. Sorrell and formed part of Mahone's divis-
ion of A. P. Hill's corps. He was invalided and
sent to his home in Augusta, Ga., in August,
1864; was promoted major-general, C.S.A., Nov.
26. 1864, and assigned tu the command of one of
two divisions in General Hardee's army, defend-
ing Savannah, General McLaws commanding the
other, and after the fall of that city, he proceeded
north with Johnston's army, and surrendered
with him. After the close of the war he en-
gaged in the publication of the Chronicle and
Sentinel at his home, Augusta, Ga., where he
rapidly recuperated his fortune and established
a profitable newspaper. He was elected a Demo-
cratic representative from Georgia to the 43d con-
gress in 1872, but did not take his seat. He was
twice married: first to Mary Hubbell, daughter
of Dr. William Savage of Augusta, and secondly
to Caroline Hazelliurst. His eldest son, William
A. Wright, was comptroller-general of Georgia
in 1903. He died in Augusta, Ga., Dec. 21, 1873.
WRIGHT, Carroll Davidson, statistician, was
born in Dunbarton, N.H., July 25, 1840; son of
the Rev. Nathan Reed and Eliza (Clark) Wriglit;
grandson of Jacob and Betsey (Lowell) Wright,
and of Jonathan Clark. His parents resided at
Hooksett, 1841, and
at Wasliington, 1842-
56, where he at-
tended Tubbs's Union
academy. He was
also a student at Cold
River academy, Al-
stead, and the acad-
emy at Chester, Vt.
On his parents' re-
moval to Reading,
J) Mass., in 1856, he
attended the high
school, 1856-58, and
/^>sA. ^>'/ Ot/^» J then returned to New
r^^'^'^^^^:^W^ Hampshire, studying
^ law with Wlieeler
and Faulkner at Keene, and with Tollman Willey in Boston, Mass. In September, 1862, he enlisted at Keene in the 14th New Hampsliire volunteers as a private; was commissioneil 2d lieutenant in October, 1862, on the departure of the regiment for the .seat of war; in December, 1863, was made adjutant of the regiment, and in
December, 1864, was commissioned its colonel.
He was obliged to resign from the service in
March, 1865. by reason of continued ill health,
and was admitted to the bar at Keene, N.H.,
October, 1865. He began practice in Boston,
Mass., August, 1867. He was married, Jan. 1,
1867, to Caroline Elizabeth, daugliter of Sylvester
and Mary (Elizabeth) Harnden of Reading, Mass.
He was a member of the Massachusetts senate,
1872-73; was chief of the Massachusetts bureau of
statistics of labor, 1873-88; a presidential elector
on the Hayes and Wheeler ticket in 1876; di-
rector of the census of Massachusetts, 1875 and
1885; supervisor of the U.S. census for Massachu-
setts, 1880; commissioner to investigate the
public records of towns, parishes, counties and
courts of Massachusetts, 1885; U.S. commissioner
of labor in the department of the interior, Wash-
ington, D.C., 1885-88, and in July, 1888, became
the head of tiie independent U.S. department of
labor and statistics. He completed the lltli
U.S. census, 1893-97; and on Oct. 9. 1902, was in-
augurated the first president of the new colle-
giate department of Clark universitj-. Worcester,
IMass. He delivered a course of lectures on
" Pliases of the Labor Question " before the
Lowell Institute, Boston, 1879; was University
lecturer on " The Factor}- System " at Harvard.
1881, and on " Wage Statistics," 1900-01. He also
lectured on statistics at Johns Hopkins univer-
sity, the University of Micliigan, the Northwest
university, the Catholic University of America,
and the College of Social Economics, New York
city. He was honorary professor of social eco-
nomics at the Catholic university of America
from 1895, and professor of statistics and social
economics. School of Comparative Jurisprudence
and Diplomacy, Columbian university, Wash-
ington, D.C., 1900. He received the honorary
degree of A.M. from Tufts college in 1883;
that of Ph.D. from Dartmouth in 1897; and
that of LL.D. from Wesleyan in 1894; Clark
University in 1903 and Tufts college in 1903. He
was made a charter trustee and a member of the
executive committee of management of Carnegie
Institution, Washington, D.C., chartered in 1902,
and the same year was appointed by President
Roosevelt a member of the commission that ar-
bitrated the difficulties between the mine-owners
and miners in the great coal strike, by which the
miners resumed work, Oct. 20, 1902. In July,
1903, he was nominated by Governor Bates chair-
man of a committee of five to revise the laws in
regard to the relations between employers and
employees. He became corresponding member
of the Institute of France: lionorary member
of the Imperial Academy of Sciences of Russia;
president in 1903 of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science, president of the