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Robert William Wright

(1816-1885)
Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Connecticut

Robert William Wright was born in Ludlow, Vermont on February 22, 1816. He graduated from Harvard in 1842 and became a school teacher in Boston. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1845. He moved to Wisconsin where he practiced law in Waukesha. In 1856 he moved to Waterbury, Connecticut, practiced law, and edited the Waterbury Journal. He served for one year as judge of probate in Waterbury. He then edited the Hartford Daily Post (1858), and then the New Haven Daily News (1859). He then moved on to the Richmond, Virginia, where he edited the State Journal. He afterward made his home at Cheshire, Connecticut where he resided until his death.

[Source: James Grant Wilson & John Fiske, Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1889)][online text]

Poetry

Horatius Flaccus, The Church Knaviad, or, Horace in West Haven a slight touch of the serio-comic, touching church knavery (New Haven: Dr. Faustus, 1864)

Writings

Horatius Flaccus, The Vision of Judgment, or The South Church: Ecclesiastical Councils Viewed from Celestial and Satanic Stand-points Author: Flaccus, Horatius, 1816-1885. Publication: New York, Van Evrie, Horton & Co., 1867

_____________, Opera Omnia (London: Bell, 1874)

_____________, The Poetry and Poets of Connecticut ([New Haven], 1877)(Excerpt from New Haven Colony Historical Soc. Papers, 1877, v. 2, pp. 93-115)

_____________, Biographical Record of the Class of 1842 of Yale College Author: Flaccus, Horatius, Corp Author: Yale University., Class of 1842. Publication: New Haven, Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, printers, 1878

_____________, Life, Its True Genesis (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1880)