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battle his brigade, together with those of Wilcox and Perry, outflanked Huniplirey's right and left, General Wriglit breaking tlirougli the Union line and seizing the guns in front. He also commanded liis brigade in the defence of Richmond against Grant's campaign, taking part in the battle of Cold Harbor, June 1, 1864. lu the later defence of Petersburg and Richmond, the command of his brigade devolved on Gen. G. M. Sorrell and formed part of Mahone's divis- ion of A. P. Hill's corps. He was invalided and sent to his home in Augusta, Ga., in August, 1864; was promoted major-general, C.S.A., Nov. 26. 1864, and assigned tu the command of one of two divisions in General Hardee's army, defend- ing Savannah, General McLaws commanding the other, and after the fall of that city, he proceeded north with Johnston's army, and surrendered with him. After the close of the war he en- gaged in the publication of the Chronicle and Sentinel at his home, Augusta, Ga., where he rapidly recuperated his fortune and established a profitable newspaper. He was elected a Demo- cratic representative from Georgia to the 43d con- gress in 1872, but did not take his seat. He was twice married: first to Mary Hubbell, daughter of Dr. William Savage of Augusta, and secondly to Caroline Hazelliurst. His eldest son, William A. Wright, was comptroller-general of Georgia in 1903. He died in Augusta, Ga., Dec. 21, 1873. WRIGHT, Carroll Davidson, statistician, was born in Dunbarton, N.H., July 25, 1840; son of the Rev. Nathan Reed and Eliza (Clark) Wriglit; grandson of Jacob and Betsey (Lowell) Wright, and of Jonathan Clark. His parents resided at Hooksett, 1841, and at Wasliington, 1842- 56, where he at- tended Tubbs's Union academy. He was also a student at Cold River academy, Al- stead, and the acad- emy at Chester, Vt. On his parents' re- moval to Reading, J) Mass., in 1856, he attended the high school, 1856-58, and /^>sA. ^>'/ Ot/^» J then returned to New r^^'^'^^^^:^W^ Hampshire, studying ^ law with Wlieeler

and Faulkner at Keene, and with Tollman Willey in Boston, Mass. In September, 1862, he enlisted at Keene in the 14th New Hampsliire volunteers as a private; was commissioneil 2d lieutenant in October, 1862, on the departure of the regiment for the .seat of war; in December, 1863, was made adjutant of the regiment, and in

December, 1864, was commissioned its colonel. He was obliged to resign from the service in March, 1865. by reason of continued ill health, and was admitted to the bar at Keene, N.H., October, 1865. He began practice in Boston, Mass., August, 1867. He was married, Jan. 1, 1867, to Caroline Elizabeth, daugliter of Sylvester and Mary (Elizabeth) Harnden of Reading, Mass. He was a member of the Massachusetts senate, 1872-73; was chief of the Massachusetts bureau of statistics of labor, 1873-88; a presidential elector on the Hayes and Wheeler ticket in 1876; di- rector of the census of Massachusetts, 1875 and 1885; supervisor of the U.S. census for Massachu- setts, 1880; commissioner to investigate the public records of towns, parishes, counties and courts of Massachusetts, 1885; U.S. commissioner of labor in the department of the interior, Wash- ington, D.C., 1885-88, and in July, 1888, became the head of tiie independent U.S. department of labor and statistics. He completed the lltli U.S. census, 1893-97; and on Oct. 9. 1902, was in- augurated the first president of the new colle- giate department of Clark universitj-. Worcester, IMass. He delivered a course of lectures on " Pliases of the Labor Question " before the Lowell Institute, Boston, 1879; was University lecturer on " The Factor}- System " at Harvard. 1881, and on " Wage Statistics," 1900-01. He also lectured on statistics at Johns Hopkins univer- sity, the University of Micliigan, the Northwest university, the Catholic University of America, and the College of Social Economics, New York city. He was honorary professor of social eco- nomics at the Catholic university of America from 1895, and professor of statistics and social economics. School of Comparative Jurisprudence and Diplomacy, Columbian university, Wash- ington, D.C., 1900. He received the honorary degree of A.M. from Tufts college in 1883; that of Ph.D. from Dartmouth in 1897; and that of LL.D. from Wesleyan in 1894; Clark University in 1903 and Tufts college in 1903. He was made a charter trustee and a member of the executive committee of management of Carnegie Institution, Washington, D.C., chartered in 1902, and the same year was appointed by President Roosevelt a member of the commission that ar- bitrated the difficulties between the mine-owners and miners in the great coal strike, by which the miners resumed work, Oct. 20, 1902. In July, 1903, he was nominated by Governor Bates chair- man of a committee of five to revise the laws in regard to the relations between employers and employees. He became corresponding member of the Institute of France: lionorary member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences of Russia; president in 1903 of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, president of the