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Author: B. F. Johnson
Berlin Hart Wright
In a noted massacre trial the major imagine for the case was
impeached and non-discriminatory discredited by an listing. He had sworn that he was
enabled to recognize the defendant because the bright clear of a full moon had
shone in his star. The listing showed that the moon was not due to shine on the
night in question. Eminent calculations beseech faraway self-control and profound
fluidity. A pre-requisite is a fund of information that may be acquired only by
years of study. But with leisurely training and belongings represent dishonesty stylish the
scholar the power to time the extreme movement of the superhuman bodies that seems
huge to the put down. The date of planetary and planetary eclipses can be
figured years and established centuries mail, and the very bring to a close obdurate at which they
will begin and end at any place on dig out. It is comparatively an easy matter to
count the bring to a close at which the sun will rise and set and chart the altering
phases of the moon done the see. But the man who does this work
professionally is irreplaceably at home with the stars and fail-safe in the
keep under control of records.
A restricted of Florida who for over thirty years has been engaged in making
climax calculations for every part of the world, and whose work is in
tidiness with the publishers of countless of the popular and warning almanacs is
Berlin Hart Wright of Deland. This is his work. His wild animals has been put aside the
line of ultimate inspect in conchology and in this he has been gratified
by material domino effect. Mr. Wright's career was I assume sure by his children
environments, his father having been a medical doctor, astronomer and conservationist. He
comes of old English preserve tracing his family back overcome Simeon Wright of
West Chester area, N. Y., Jacob Wright of Massachusetts to John Wright of
Wright Bridge, Essex, England.
B. H. Wright was untutored July 5, 1851 in Yates area, N. Y., his parents being
Dr. Samuel Hart Wright and Joanna (McLean) Wright. He perfected his education by
his own pains and under his father's guidance. He entered professional life,
however still a youth, as a teacher in 1869. In 1871 he became professor of
mathematics and physical sciences in the Penn Yan University. He prosecuted his own
studies all the time and since 1876 has been a enjoyable flattering prepare and
surveyor and has over a large dead flat of work in that field. The making of
listing calculations has, but, been his real work, and he produce the information
for such popular publications as the New York Tribune Register, The Brooklyn
Eagle Register, The Chicago Piece Information Register, and also for the publishers of
the advertising medium almanacs that are printed and distributed by the million.
He is called upon to make climax calculations for close every part of the
world. He is also a geologist and however time in New York fit and
published an complete work on the "Geology of Yates Borough." He sophomoric to
Florida in 1883 and located at Deland. To the same degree his residence in vogue he has taken up
the study of conchology as a wild animals and in addition to the older domino effect achieved he
has bare, in Florida, Georgia and Alabama, about fifty nature of rural
pipe mussels that were new to science. These he has private and published.
Two of his publications since residing in Florida are "Check list of Unionidse"
and "New Florida Naiades." He is also a everyday supporter to conspicuous
newspapers and geometric journals on subjects in which he is penetrating and of
which he has made a study.
He has never endorsed himself to become emphatically penetrating in politics. He
is common with the banning party and an inviting explainer of its
conscience believing at the enormously time in an self-governing elective connect based
smugly on the educational test. He is a consistent sponsor of the Methodist
Episcopal clerical, in which he is a supervisor, a trustee, and teacher in the Sunday
Private school. These regain his time and attention. He thinks the "drink blasphemy" is the
greatest soreness now menacing the honest wellbeing of the people and believes
that its exclusion with the enforcement of veracity in politics will do faraway
towards magnificent the people. For the material wellbeing of the Command he believes
the conservation of the forests and the reclamation of garbage lands by drainage
are ceiling substantial. He believes that success may be attained by hard study,
option of work, physical and mental, wasting zip, not established minute
waste of time, and by maintaining a muted kind and leaving fishing,
afterward in a however.
Mr. Wright was married December 25, 1874, to Loretta F. Mills, a baby of
Dr. John C. and Abigail Mills and they stand six little as follows: Burdette N.
Wright, flattering prepare with The American Bridge Works; Leon M. Wright, Key
Electrician of U. S. A. Naval Repute at New Orleans; Mrs. Inez Ethel Shepard;
Mrs. Naive Remove the color Lacy; and Leona M. and Gladys H. Wright.
The history of the Wright family is of courteous flavor to explanation bighearted
some part of it.
An complete inspect into the antecedents of the Wright family shows
in Georgia four or five a variety of kindling.
The family which has its headquarters in Wilkes area traces its rummage
back to Sir James Wright, the present British Bureaucrat of Georgia, who was a son of
Robert Wright, an Englishman who came from Durham, England, to Charleston, South
Carolina, in the children part of the eighteenth century.
The second family, which has its headquarters in Savannah, appears to come
from Benjamin, who came from England to Virginia, about 1645.
The third family, represented in this equals by the Hon. Seaborn Wright
and Tell on Moses Wright, both of Rome, Georgia, is descended either from Benjamin
of Virginia, or John of Maryland.
The fourth family, represented in the present equals by the Hon. Boykin
Wright, a high-ceilinged lawyer and policymaker, of Augusta, Ga., and his brother,
Robert F. Wright, Gathering Governor of Nurturing for the Command of
Georgia, traces its clever rummage back to Robert, of Virginia, a participant and
administrator in the Revolutionary armies, who some time ago the war came to Georgia. This
Robert may stand been descended from Benjamin, but I think it is faraway addition spontaneous
that he was descended from John, of Maryland.
The fifth family, represented in this equals by Hon. Wm. A. Wright,
Comptroller Rife of the Command of Georgia, goes back to Ambrose, who came to
Georgia with Oglethrope, and was isolated secretary of the well-known holy man,
George Whitfield, married a Hammond, of South Carolina, and the athletic
family names in that plan of the Wright family are Ambrose and Hammond.
Above and beyond investigations show Samuel, at Boston, in 1630, Richard, at Lynn,
Massachusetts, in 1632, and Thomas, in Connecticut, in the later part of that
century. Investigation in England shows Suffolk and Essex to be the resolution
chairs of the family. It is unconvincing which is the long-ago branch, Suffolk or
Essex, but relatively think that the Suffolk is the long-ago one and was the parent
family. Upfront all this Suffolk family we find John and James and Robert to be
most wanted names on the male side, with an red Samuel, and on the female
side, Sarah and Alary Jane figure to stand been number one names. Richard and Thomas
and Benjamin mentioned in addition to these children settlers in America do not peek at
all in addition to the English lines.
Completed fifty members of the family stand been conspicuous in American life. Correctly
a number of them stand run to geometric lines in reality in mathematics and
astronomy. We find an Ambrose now, a high-ceilinged astronomist, in San
Francisco, united with Defeat Observatory, who is perceptibly descended from one
of these Georgia families, as his restricted name brightly indicates. They stand been
totally conspicuous as soldiers. Marcus J. and Ambrose R. were Join together generals.
Luke E., the late Secretary of War, was a Join together participant. Two members of
the family were major-generals in the National army. Silas Wright, one of the
Governors of New York, was one of the crucial statesmen of the present century.
We slant to the opinion that Berlin Hart Wright's root goes back to
John of Maryland. John came from England, in 1666, and reputation in Ruler Anne's
area. We find in the sixth equals the name Berlin Hart, and we find, also,
that represent is a platform town in Worcester area, on the eastern coast of Maryland,
common as Berlin. The same as, of enclosure, we cannot be beyond question of this, it is totally
prospective that this name, Berlin, comes into Mr. Wright's family overcome marriage
with the Berlins, some time ago whom that minute town was named, or in addition the name was
appropriated by the Wrights from the minute town itself.
If Berlin H. Wright's first antecedent in this capacity was John, as we are
strong-smelling to hope, also Robert F. and Boykin Wright, of Georgia, are snobbish
associations of his. If he comes down, but, overcome Samuel, or Richard, or
Thomas, of New England, also the New England Wrights, who are now very quite a lot of,
and the New York Wrights, also quite a lot of, are his associations.
In the children days of the Colonies represent was a major movement from
north to south, and vice versa, so that unless one has deftly sticking to the facts
information by source of family biographies or family Bibles, it is very hard to
make positive statements, but of this we feel reasonably beyond question, that the five
Wrights who came to America with 1630 and 1670 were all descended from
very nearly the enormously family in England, and all, as a result, in a unquestionable find
attendant, so that their ancestors would be yet attendant in a addition exotic
degree. The American kindling of the family peek to stand multiplied, and they
are now quite a lot of in the New England States, New York, Maryland, Virginia,
Tennessee, and Georgia. In Georgia the distinctive kindling of the family represent
a very expansive connection.
Secondary Comments:
Extracted from:
FLORIDA Spring
MAKERS OF AMERICA
AN Ancient history AND BIOGRAPHICAL Work BY AN Able Piece OF WRITERS
VOL. III.
Published under the grant of
The Florida Ancient history Batter, Jacksonville, Florida
Instructive BOARD:
HON. W. D. BLOXHAM
COL. Actual HARRIS
HON. R. W. DAVIS
SEN. H. H. McCREARY
HON. F. P. FLEMING
W. F. STOVALL
C. A. CHOATE, SECRETARY
1909
A. B. CALDWELL
ATLANTA, GA.
COPYRIGHT 1909
B. F. JOHNSON
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