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WRIGHT, Hendrick Bradley, lawyer, born in Plymouth, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, 24 April, 1808; died in Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania, 2 September, 1881. He was educated at Dickinson college, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1831, and began practice in Wilkesbarre. He was appointed district attorney for Luzerne county in 1834, and was elected to the legislature in 1841-'3, serving in the latter year as speaker He was a member of all the national Democratic conventions between 1840 and 1860, and was the presiding officer in the one that nominated James K. Poll for president. Being elected to congress as a Democrat, he served from 5 December, 1853, till 3 March, 1855. He was elected again to fill the vacancy caused by the death of George W. Scranton, serving from 4 July, 1861, till 3 March, 1863, and again from 1877 till 1881. He published "A Practical Treatise on Labor" (New York, 1871), and "Historical Sketches of Plymouth, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania "(Philadelphia, 1873).--His nephew, Harrison, lawyer, born in Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania, 15 July, 1850; died there, 20 February, 1885, was educated in his native city and at Heidelberg, Germany, where he studied four years, receiving in 1871 the degrees of A.M, and Ph.D. He returned home, studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1874. He was chosen secretary of the Wyoming historical and geological society of Wilkesbarre in 1874, and devoted himself to literary and scientific pursuits. Mr. Wright was a member of the Archteological society of Rome, and other societies. He published various monographs on archaological and scientific subjects. His last publications--"The Manuscripts of the Earl of Ashburnham, a Translation of the Report to the Minister of Public Instruction and Fine Arts, by Leopold Delisle, of the National Library" (1884), and "Observations on the Very Ancient Manuscript of the Libri Collection, by Leopold Delisle" (1884), which he published and circulated widely in America--were doubtless the means of preventing the sale of these treasures in this country and of restoring them to the National library at Paris. He also edited the first volume of the "Proceedings" of the Wyoming historical and geological society.
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