Wright

(Elizur), American reformer, b. South Canaan, Litchfield Co., Connecticut, 12 Feb. 1804. He graduated at Yale College, ’26. Having warmly embraced the principles of the Abolitionists, he became secretary of the American Anti-Slavery Society, and edited the Abolitionist and Commonwealth . He was a firm and uncompromising Atheist, and a contributor to the Boston Investigator , the Freethinker’s Magazine , etc. Died at Boston, 21 Dec. ’85. His funeral oration was delivered by Col. Ingersoll.