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WRIGHT, Luther, educator, born in Easthampton, Massachusetts, 24 November, 1796; died there, 5 September, 1870. After graduation at Yale in 1822, he was principal of an academy in Maryland for two years, and then returned to Yale, where he served as a tutor, and studied theology. Subsequently he taught in Middletown and Ellington, Connecticut, and was principal of the academy in Leicester, Massachusetts, in 1833-'9. He was the first principal of Williston seminary, which he organized (see WILLISTON, SAMUEL), serving from 1841 till 1849, when he resigned, but for several years gave instruction to private pupils. Mr. Wright published an address at the dedication of the academy building in Leicester (1833), and a historical sketch of Easthampton (1851).
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