WRIGHT, Robert William, author, born in Ludlow, Vermont, 22 February, 1816; died in Cleveland, Ohio. 9 January, 1885. His grandfather, Stephen, was the fourth in descent from Captain Edward Wright, of Concord, Massachusetts, who came to this country from Bromwick, England, in 1645. After graduation at Harvard in 1842, he taught in the public grammar-schools in Boston, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1845. He then went to Wisconsin and practised his profession in Waukesha until 1856, and in 1852 declined the Whig nomination for congress from that district. In 1856-'9 he resided in Waterbury, Connecticut, where he practised law, edited the Waterbury "Journal," and served one year as judge of probate. He edited the Hartford "Daily Post" in 1858, the New Haven "Daily News" from 1859, and afterward the Richmond, Virginia, "State Journal." Afterward he removed to Cheshire, Connecticut, which was his home until his death, tie invented two successful newspaper addressers, for which he obtained patents, and devoted his leisure to astronomy and literature. He read papers before the New Haven colony historical society, contributed to magazines, and printed numerous satirical poems. He published "The Church Knaviad, or Horace in West Haven, by Horatius Flaccus," a satirical mock-heroic poem (New Haven, 1864); "The Vision of Judgment, or the South Church, Ecclesiastical Councils viewed from Celestial and Satanic Standpoints by Queredo Redivivus" (1867) ; "The Pious Chi-Neh, or a Veritable History of the Great Election Fraud, done into Verse by U Bet," a humorous pasquinade on the election of 1871 in Connecticut (1872); and "Life: its True Genesis," a refutation of the Darwinian theory (New York, 1880). N r. Wright was also the author of "Practical Legal Forms" (Milwaukee, 1852).