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- Henry Newell Wright - June 30, 1817 - June 22, 1872. Son of Newell and Ruth Sprague Wright. Husband of Sarah C. Wright.
Newspaper Obituary - Thursday, June 27, 1872 Pulaski Democrat - Pulaski, New York - Died - June 22d, in this village, of asthmatic consumption, Hon. Henry N. Wright, aged 55 years. The deceased was born in Ballston, Saratoga County. In early youth he removed with his parents to Cazenovia. He entered the University of Middletown, Connecticut, and left that college for Hamilton, Clinton, New York, graduating finally at Union College in 1839. He came with his parents in 1840 to this place, studied his profession, and established himself in the legal practice. He had the first election as Special County Judge in this county, under the law authorizing such elections. He was appointed Deputy Collector under President Pierce's administration, at the Custom House in New York City. He was appointed Postmaster under the administration of President Buchanan, and also held the office for six months under the administration of President Johnson. For 25 years he has held the office of Justice of the Peace, and such has been his high reputation for legal ability, learning and integrity that he has never failed to secure his election to this office, even when the political party opposed to himself, held a decided majority. The deceased held high rank for his superior intellectual abilities, both in his collegiate and legal career. He was a finished and elegant writer, a forcible and eloquent speaker, active in political life, generous and high-minded in all matters of educational and public interest or improvement. For the last twenty years he has been a sufferer from the painful and frustrating disease that last terminated his life, but such has been his extraordinary figure of will, that he continued to perform the duties of his office and the labors of business almost to the day of his death. He leaves a wife and two children to mourn the loss of an affectionate and devoted husband and father.
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1817 - 1872 (54 years)