WRIGHT, Asher, missionary, born in Hanover, New Hampshire, 7 September, 1803; died in Cattaraugus, New York, 13 April, 1875. He was graduated at Dartmouth in 1828 and at Andover theological seminary in 1831, and from that year until his death was a missionary to the Seneca Indians upon the Buffalo creek and Cattaraugus reservations, he acquired the Seneca dialect, into which he translated parts of the New Testament, which were printed by the mission press. He also prepared several elementary school-books and a hymnal in that language, and for a time issued a small periodical. He was an accomplished scholar, possessed a good knowledge of medicine, and did much for the improvement of the Senecas. He published "The Interesting Narrative of Mary Jenison, who lived nearly Seventy-eight Years among the Indians" (Buffalo, 1834).--His wife, LAURA SHELDON, born in Massachusetts about 1808, wrote and translated several hymns in the Seneca dialect.