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He was married January 1, 1867, to Caroline Elizabeth, daughter of Sylvester and Mary Elizabeth Harnden of Reading, Massachusetts. Doctor Wright has devoted over thirty-three years to scientific investigation into social economic conditions. He is a Republican in politics, but has served in his official capacity under both the Republican and Democratic administrations. The books he has found most helpful in fitting him for his life work are those on the history and condition of the people. He indulges in no sports or amusements but has found his relaxation in change of work, in social intercourse and, when weary, in reading light literature. He has never acted or worked "on impulse," but has labored as a matter of love and duty, and because industry was natural to him. He found " failure whenever he worked for profit," and he abandoned all such work after he was thirty years of age and contented himself with taking the results of his work, rather than working to secure results. To American youth he recommends the cultivation of the habit of industrious attention to the thing you are set to do. Never mind the consequences.