Wright, Milton

D.D. (West field College, 111., 1878), United Brethren in Christ; b. in Rush County, Ind., Nov. 17, 1828; educated at Hartsville College, Ind., 1853; became a member of the "White River Conference, Ind., 1853; ordained, 1856; was pastor at Indianapolis, 1855-56; at Andersonville, Ind., 1856-57; mi ionary in Oregon, where he was pastor at Sublimity and most of the time president of Sublimity College (a denominational institution), 1857-59; in the itinerancy in the White River Conference, 1859-69, during which he was presiding elder (1861-64, 1866-68), and pastor at Hartsville,Ind.,and teacher of theology in Hartsville College (1868-69); was editor of The Religious Telescope (church organ), Dayton, O., 1869-77 (being elected two terms); bishop (a igned to West Mi i ippi District), 1877-81; presiding elder in White River Conference, 1881-85 (editor and publisher of The Richmond Stai; Richmond, Ind., 1883-85); re-elected bishop for the term of four years, and sent to the Pacific Coast District, 1885. His writings are wholly journalistic, except a few tracts.