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Isaac Metcalf, of the seventh generation, and the sixth child of Peletia and Lydia, was born at Royalston, Massachusetts, where he was a very successful teacher, both there and in adjacent towns, and later in Boston. Isaac Metcalf married for his first wife Lucy Heywood, daughter of Silas and Hannah (Goddard) Heywood. For his second wife he married Anna Mayo (Stevens) Rich, widow of Charles Rich of Warwick, Massachusetts, and a daughter of Wilder Stevens of War- wick and Elizabeth Mayo of Roxbury. Charles Wilder Rich, who lived on Sixteenth Street in Elyria, was the oldest child of Charles and Anna Mayo (Stevens) Rich, and was the father of George Rich, still living on the home place in Lorain County. Charles W. Rich married Albina S. Kittridge of Milo, Maine, and they moved to Elyria in 1865. The youngest child of Charles and Anna Mayo Rich was Anna Elizabeth Rich, who was born at Warwick, Massachusetts, was a teacher, first in a private school in Boston and then for twelve years in Bangor, Maine, was later assistant principal at Westfield Academy at Westfield, New York, and in charge of a young ladies seminary in Racine, Wisconsin. In 1853 she married Elijah DeWitt, M. D., of Elyria, and resided in Elyria until her death in 1897.
Anna Mayo Stevens Rich was one of the pupils of Isaac Metcalf in Warwick, Massachusetts, while a girl, and after her second husband's death she lived among her children in Elyria, where she died in 1866. Isaac and Anna Stevens Metcalf had four children, one of whom, the oldest, was Isaac Stevens Metcalf, who resided in Elyria, and was the father of Gen. W. S. Metcalf of Lawrence, Kansas, above referred to, and of Dr. Henry Martin Metcalf, also of Elyria, and father of John M. P. Metcalf, the educator above mentioned.
The fourth child of Isaac and Anna Stevens Metcalf was Eliab Wight Metcalf, whose name stands at the head of this article and who was thus in the eighth successive generation of the American branch of the family. From 1851 to 1865 E. W. Metcalf was in the lumber, ship chandlery and ship building business in Bangor, Maine. Though unable to join the army because of physical disability, he spent most of the time during the war with the army as confidential agent of President Lincoln
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and in the Christian Commission service. After the war he removed with his family to Elyria, which was already the home of his brother Charles W. Rich and Isaac Stevens Metcalf and of his sister Anna Rich De Witt. After coming to Lorain County he dealt in timber land, chiefly in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. Having lost a vessel burned by the English-built cruiser Shenandoah, he spent twelve winters in Washington urging that the forty-nine marine insurance companies who claimed many millions of the Geneva award, were entitled to noth- ing unless they could show actual loss above war premiums received. Congress finally adopted this view and the vessel owners were paid from the Geneva award all the actual losses caused by all the Confederate cruisers for which the losers had received no indemnity and also about a third of the proved losses by the payment of war insurance premiums. Having won this long fight Mr. Metcalf served as attorney before the court of claims collecting claims for many others as well as himself. In his twelve years' fight against the insurance companies he received practically no financial or other assistance. He was fighting for a prin- ciple, and a vigorous stand for justice and truth seems to have been a prevailing and dominating trait of character in the Metcalf family. He later had important lawsuits before the Supreme courts of Wisconsin and the United States, involving new principles of law which were carried to successful issues. He was from young manhood much inter- ested in temperance legislation, first in Maine, later in Ohio. He aided in organizing the Anti-Saloon League and wrote the local option bill which has been the basis of the local option legislation in many states. From 1880 until his death in 1899 he was a trustee of Oberlin College. Throughout his life he was, with his wife, active in church work, local missionary work and philanthropy. From its organization he was a member of the republican party, always avoiding office himself, but influ- ential in its councils in early days in Bangor and later in Elyria effect- ive in overthrowing local bosses. Among his friends were many of the most prominent figures in our national life.
E. W. Metcalf married Eliza Maria Ely, daughter of Rev. William and Harriet (Whiting) Ely, and descended from a long line of ministers and physicians, most of whom were graduates of Yale University. Her parents lived at Easthampton, Massachusetts. Before her marriage Mrs. Metcalf was "lady principal of Williston Seminary." E. W. Met- calf and wife were, during their residence in Bangor, members of the Central Avenue Congregational Church, and afterwards of the First Congregational Church of Elyria. They became the parents of five children, Irving W., Lucy H., Edith Ely, Wilmot V. and Maynard M.
Irving W. Metcalf, the oldest child, was born at Bangor, Maine, November 27, 1855, grew up in Lorain County, graduated A. B. from Oberlin College in 1878, subsequently pursuing his studies in the Andover Theological Seminary during 1879-80, and in 1881 graduated with the Divinity degree from Oberlin Theological Seminary. He was ordained for the Congregational ministry in 1882, served as pastor of a church in Columbus from 1881 to 1889, of Hough Avenue Church in Cleveland 1889 to 1894, as associate pastor of Pilgrim Church in Cleveland from 1894 to 1897, and though still continuing an influential connection with church affairs has since been in business. He was located at Lawrence, Kansas, from 1897 to 1899, and from that date in Elyria until 1892 and since then at Oberlin. He is president of the Duane Building Company, secretary of the Middleburg Stone Company, a director of the Elyria Savings and Banking Company, director of the Winton Motor Carriage Company of Cleveland. president of the S. Mills Ely Company of Binghamton, New York. From 1892 to 1897 he served as secretary of the Congregational City Missionary Society of Cleveland
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and of the Ohio Congregational Board of Ministerial Relief. He was moderator of the Congregational Association of Ohio in 1902, and since 1898 has been chairman of the church property committee of the National Council of Congregational churches. He is a trustee of Oberlin Col- lege, a trustee of the Ohio Anti-Saloon League, a trustee of Thessalonica Agricultural and Industrial Institute at Salonica, Turkey, and a trustee of the Oberlin Missionary Home Association. He is secretary of the Living Endowment Union of Oberlin College and a corporate member of the A. B. C. F. M. He is well known in Cleveland where he is a member of the Chamber of Commerce. He belongs to the National Municipal League, the Religious Educational Association, the National Geographic Society, and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He married May 20, 1885, Flora Belle Mussey of Elyria.
Lucy Heywood Metcalf, the second child, married Rev. Augustus G. Upton, who was a teacher in Oberlin College, then a Congregational pastor and later president of Weiser Academy in Idaho, but is now deceased.
Edith Ely Metcalf was a student of art for some years at Boston, London and Paris, and is now living in Chicago, where she has built a home including rooms for a free kindergarten and has done much service among the poor of that city.
Wilmot V. Metcalf, who graduated A. B. and M. A. from Oberlin College and Ph. D. from Johns Hopkins University, afterwards con- tinuing his studies in physical chemistry in Wuerzburg, Bavaria, and in Leipsic, served as professor of chemistry in Carleton College in Minne- sota, professor of physics at Fisk University in Tennessee, and is now engaged in private study of chemistry at his home in Oberlin. Novem- ber 4, 1889, he married Caroline G. Soule of Taunton, Massachusetts, who for a time was a teacher of Greek in Wellesley and also a teacher in the American missionary schools in the South.
Maynard M. Metcalf, the youngest of the children, was born at Elyria, March 12, 1868, graduated A. B. from Oberlin College in 1889, and received his Doctor of Philosophy degree at Johns Hopkins Uni- versity in 1893. He also has the honorary degree D. Sc. from Oberlin. From 1893 to 1906 he was associate professor and professor of biology in the Woman's College of Baltimore, was for several years professor of biology in Oberlin College, but is now engaged in the private study of zoology at his home in Oberlin. He is a trustee of the Marine Biologi- cal Laboratory at Woods Hole, Massachusetts, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a member of the American Society of Zoologists, of the American Society of Naturalists, the Biological Society of Washington, the Ohio Academy of Science, the National Geographic Society, the National Municipal League, the National Council of the National Economic League, the American Economic Asso- ciation, the Western Economic Association, and also belongs to the Authors Club of London. He has contributed scientific articles to both American and German publications and is author of "An Outline of the Theory of Organic Evolution." September 10, 1890, he married Ella M. Wilder of Elgin, Illinois.
EDGAR FRANKLIN ROSECRANS. For fully forty years Mr. Rosecrans has been one of the progressive and enterprising business men of Lorain County. He has been known as a butcher and retail meat dealer, as a successful farmer, a buyer and dealer in livestock, and his friends assert that he makes a success of every undertaking.
He was born in St. Lawrence County, New York, April 3, 1853, a son of Franklin and Frances (Hines) Rosecrans. Both parents were natives of St. Lawrence County where the father was born in 1816 and
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the mother in 1821. They were married in New York State and came to Lorain County in 1865, locating in Russia Township, where the father died in 1882 and the mother in 1891. Franklin Rosecrans bought 100 acres in Russia Township, and by much hard work cleared up and improved this place and was very successful. He had brought with him to Ohio a capital of about $4,000 and by good judgment as a farmer steadily prospered until his estate represented a much higher value at the time of his death. He was a republican in politics, active in public affairs, and his wife was an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Of their fourteen children nine are still living, and Edgar F. was fifth in order of birth. The maternal grandfather Hines, who spent his life in New York State, was an old time school teacher, and was proficient not only in the arts of instruction in the fundamentals but was also a noted writing or penmanship teacher in the early days.
Edgar Franklin Rosecrans was about twelve years of age when his parents came to Lorain County, and finished his education here in the district schools and also the schools in Oberlin. From early boyhood he showed special inclination for the handling of live stock, and he soon began buying and also became an expert butcher.
On December 7, 1876, he married Miss Ida M. Beam, a daughter of Peter Beam. Mrs. Rosecrans was born in Lorain County, and is the mother of seven children: Louise, wife of Lewis Morris, a butcher at Oberlin; Jesse, who is in the butcher business at Oberlin; Jennie, wife of Jesse Harris of Toledo; Arthur, who is a very prosperous stockman in the State of Idaho; Elmer, also in the stock business at Idaho; Gertrude, who lives with her brothers in Idaho; Ralph, who is employed as feeder of lambs for his brother in Idaho, and often has had the superintendence of as high as 2,200 lambs in a single season.
Mr. Rosecrans and family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is a Maccabee and in politics is a republican. A short time before his marriage be bought a farm in Russia Township, but later traded that for a 200-acre place in Carlisle Township, which was his home for five years. Selling out, he returned to the vicinity of Oberlin, and has since enjoyed one of the finest country homes in Lorain County, situated about a mile south of the college center. In 1910 he put up his beautiful two-story house, and he also has a number of substantial farm buildings. His farm there comprises about ninety-six acres. For many years he operated a slaughter house on his farm and for twenty years he sold meat over the country from wagons, after which he estab- lished a meat market in Oberlin and continued the business actively for a number of years. He now gives most of his time to buying and selling stock and is one of the largest stock dealers in this section of Ohio. Among other property he owns seven good lots in Elyria and one in the City of Lorain.
CAPT. RICHARD THEW. At the age of sixty-eight years, with the vigorous step and active mind of a man of fifty, Capt. Richard Thew still attends to the duties of his large interests, and keeps himself abreast in knowledge and sympathy of the new generation. One of the best known figures in shipping circles of Lake Erie, he is prominent also among the manufacturers of Ohio, and at Lorain has been active in the development of several industries that have been material con- tributors to the business prestige of this thriving and prosperous city.
Captain Thew was born in Marion County, Ohio, October 27, 1847, and is a son of William P. and Susan (Davis) Thew, natives of Lincoln- shire, England, who in Ohio were engaged in agricultural pursuits.
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Richard Thew was educated in the public schools and until reaching his twenty-sixth year was engaged in assisting his father in the work of the homestead place. He has always possessed a predilection for mechanics and much natural ability in that direction, and when he left the home farm secured a position with a manufacturing company at Ashland, where he remained one year. He next purchased an interest in a hardware and machinery business at Caledonia, Ohio, which he conducted for fourteen years, and then began building steamers on Lake Erie, including his own vessel, the freight steamer William P. Thew, an iron ore boat operating out of Lorain. It was while he was the owner of this vessel that he began the development of the harvest- ing and binding machinery, and in 1899 he came from Cleveland and established his plant at Lorain, this business including the manufacture of various kinds of machinery for large companies. In 1898 Mr .. Thew became the organizer of the Thew Automatic Shovel Company, of which he has since been vice president and manager, and erected a plant 75 by 200 feet. There, in the first year, the company employed fifty men and built twelve shovels, but to give an idea of the growth of the business, in 1915 the concern employed 400 men, mostly skilled labor, and manufactures 250 shovels. The present plant is 75 by 800 feet, while the new pressed brick office building is 45 by 65 feet, and two stories in height. Mr. Thew was the organizer also of the Lorain Casting Company, of which he is vice president and manager, and is well known in banking circles of Lorain as president of the Lorain Banking Company. He has always taken a keen interest in develop- ment work, both in Ohio and California, in which latter state half of his time is passed. In 1901 Mr. Thew went to Alaska, where, with others, he became interested in mining ventures, and in the Nome district developed several good and valuable properties. He is president of the board of trustees of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Lorain.
On October 14, 1873, Mr. Thew was married to Miss Sarah Priscilla Lawrence, of Marion County, Ohio, daughter of Rev. Richard Lawrence, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church. To this union there have been born three daughters: Susan Priscilla, who resides with her parents; Carol Belle, who is the wife of James R. Fauver, of Exeter, California, manager of various California properties and owner of several orange groves; and Edna Lawrence, who died at the age of twenty-four years.
GEORGE FREDERICK WRIGHT, A. M., D. D., LL. D., F. G. S. A., the son of Walter and Mary Peabody Colburn Wright, was born January 22, 1838, in Whitehall,. Washington County, New York. His boyhood was spent on a farm near the head of Lake Champlain, amid scenes replete with reminiscences of the struggle between the French and Eng- lish to take possession of Lake George and with those of Burgoyne's campaign. His preparation for college was made at the seminary at Castleton, Vermont. While but sixteen years old he taught his first district school in Hampton, New York, near the residence of the cele- brated William Miller, who created such a sensation throughout the country by prophesying the end of the world in 1843 to 1848.
In the fall of 1855, Mr. Wright entered the freshman class at Oberlin College, where he received the degree of A. B. in 1859. During his college course he taught winter district schools in Franklin, Madison, Fayette, and Belmont counties, thus early becoming familiar with the varied interests of Ohio. Immediately after graduating from college he entered the theological seminary at Oberlin, in the class that grad- uated in 1862. But on the outbreak of the war in 1861 he enlisted in
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Company C of the Seventh Ohio Volunteers. Early in the service a severe attack of pneumonia left him in such physical debility that he was discharged at the end of five months. On completing his theological course in 1862 he was married, August 28th, to Huldah Maria Day, daughter of Judge William Day of Sheffield, Lorain County, thus cementing still further his interest in the State of Ohio.
For the next nine years and a half, or until June, 1872, he was pastor of the Congregational Church in Bakersfield, Vermont, a township in the northwest corner of the state at the foot of the Green Mountains, and not far from the Canada line. Here in addition to his pastoral duties he pursued a comprehensive course of private study, reading his Bible through in Hebrew and in Greek, translating from the German Kant's "Critique of the Pure Reason," and from the Greek large por- tions of Plato's "Dialogues." Meanwhile, he was taking an active part in the agricultural interests of his parish and spending his spare time in studying the geology of the Champlain and the St. Lawrence valleys, giving the results of his studies in the local newspapers and at the same time attracting the attention of geologists outside the state. Before leaving Bakersfield he published his first important article in periodical literature, in the New Englander, the organ of Yale College. This was upon "The Ground of Confidence in Inductive Reasoning." This at- tracted wide attention, being highly commended in leading Scotch periodicals.
In June, 1872, he accepted a call to one of the Congregational churches in Andover, Massachusetts, where he at once came into inti- mate relations with the professors of Andover Theological Seminary, which was then in the height of its career. By the invitation of Prof. Edwards A. Park he began a series of contributions to the Bibliotheca Sacra, the oldest and one of the most learned of the theological quarter- lies in America, establishing a connection with this quarterly which has continued to the present time. Meanwhile, a scientific problem of great interest and importance connected with the Glacial Period was awaiting solution within a short distance of his parsonage. This was a series of gravel deposits, known as Indian Ridge, which had been described by President Hitchcock in a paper before the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1842 and later in his popular text-book on geology. These ridges he considered to be of marine origin, and this explanation was accepted until the appearance of Mr. Wright's explana- tion in 1875, when in a paper before the Essex Institute in Salem, Massachusetts, he pronounced them of glacial origin, marking lines of drainage in the closing stages of the period when stagnant ice continued to determine its course. This explanation was at once accepted and applied to deposits known in Europe as "kames" or "eskers." In 1876 a detailed statement of the facts leading to this explanation was made in a paper published by the Boston Society of Natural History entitled, "Some Remarkable Gravel Ridges in the Merrimac Valley;" and which at the same time announced a discovery, just made and communicated to Mr. Wright by Clarence King, of the great terminal moraine which borders southern New England. A year or two later a full report of these investigations was incorporated in the third volume of the New Hampshire Geological Survey.
In the summer of 1880 Mr. Wright was invited by Professor Lesley, the head of the Pennsylvania Geological Survey, to trace this moraine across that state. This he did in company with Mr. H. Carvill Lewis. The results of this survey were published as volume Z of the Pennsyl- vania report. Meanwhile, in 1880, Warren F. Draper, of Andover, published for Mr. Wright "The Logic of Christian Evidences," which
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has had extensive use as a text-book, six editions having been called for, amounting to several thousand copies. At the same time a collection of his essays was made and published two years later entitled, "Studies in Science and Religion." His statement in this of the Darwinian theory was pronounced by Darwin to be "most clear and powerful," while Profs. Asa Gray and J. D. Dana were constantly conferring with him in his attempts to adjust the relations between science and revelation. During the latter years of his residence in Andover he was a trustee of the Boston Society of Natural History, and in intimate relations with the eminent scientific men composing that society.
In 1881 Mr. Wright was called to the chair of New Testament Lan- guage and Literature in Oberlin Seminary. As this position afforded him three or four months' vacation in the summer, he was able to employ that leisure in exploring the glacial boundary west of Pennsylvania. This he did under the auspices of the Western Reserve Historical Society of Cleveland, whose president was Col. Charles .C. Whittlesey, and its secretary Judge C. C. Baldwin. Through the efforts of Judge Baldwin and of his brother, D. C. Baldwin-both of Elyria-funds were raised to pay the expenses of this survey through the following three years, at which time it was carried to the Mississippi River. Thus the glacial boundary between the Delaware and Mississippi rivers, which appears on all geological maps, is the result of Mr. Wright's field work.
His first report was published by the Western Reserve Historical Society as Tract Number 60, entitled, "The Glacial Boundary in Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky." Subsequently the United States Geological Survey employed him to complete various details of the survey and pub- lished his report in Bulletin Number 58, entitled, "The Glacial Boundary in Western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois." Meanwhile, besides publishing two volumes in the direct line of his professorship, namely, "The Relation of Death to Probation," in 1882, and "The Divine Authority of the Bible," in 1884, Mr. Wright led an expedition to Alaska in 1886, where he spent a month in camping beside the great Muir Glacier, and brought back with him the first detailed report upon any of the Alaskan glaciers. Here the United States authori- ties have attached his name to both a mountain and a glacier. The facts were so remarkable that his report secured for him an invitation to give a course of Lowell Institute lectures in Boston in 1887. Later, after having been given in Baltimore and other cities, these were expanded into a volume of 800 pages, entitled, "The Ice Age in North America and Its Bearing upon the Antiquity of Man," published by the Apple- tons in 1889 and the fifth edition by Bibliotheca Sacra Company in 1911. In 1891 Houghton, Mifflin and Company published for him the life of "Charles Grandison Finney." In 1892 there appeared in the International Scientific Series his "Man and the Glacial Period," which has passed through several editions.
Meanwhile, Mr. Wright spent one summer in the Rocky Mountains, and another in Europe, where he was warmly welcomed by the geologists both of England and of the Continent. In 1894 Mr. Wright and his son, Frederick B., accompanied Frederick A. Cook in his ill-fated expedi- tion to Greenland, where they were wrecked at Sukkertoppen, near the Arctic Circle. However, excellent opportunity was afforded to survey a portion of the great Greenland icefields that came down to Ikamiut Fiord, where the Danish survey has subsequently honored him by attach- ing his name to one of the most prominent nunataks in that region. The results of this expedition were recorded in "Greenland Icefields and Life in the North Atlantic; with a new Discussion of the Causes of the Ice Age," D. Appleton and Company, 1896. In 1892 Mr. Wright
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was invited to give another course of Lowell Institute lectures in Boston on the "Origin and Antiquity of Man," which twenty years later, in 1912, were expanded and rewritten and published in an illus- trated volume of 600 pages by Bibliotheca Sacra Company. Again in 1896 another course of Lowell Institute lectures was given on "Scientific Aspects of Christian Evidences," elaborated into a volume and pub- lished the following year by D. Appleton and Company. Meanwhile, in 1892, he had been transferred to a special professorship of the Harmony of Science and Revelation.
In 1900 Mr. Wright and his son, Frederick B., crossed the continent of Asia for the purpose of investigating the glacial phenomena supposed to exist in that region. On the way, six weeks were spent in giving scientific lectures in the principal centers of Japan, in recognition of which he was made one of the three foreign members of the Japanese Imperial Education Society. Crossing over to China they organized an expedition during the month of May which went from Peking to Kalgan and from Kalgan into the eastern portions of Mongolia, demon- strating the absence of glacial phenomena in that region. Returning to Peking they left the city on the last train before the breaking out of the Boxer Revolution. Crossing over to Port Arthur they were for- warded by Admiral Alexieff on a construction train which took them as far as Teling, a short distance beyond Mukden. From there they were forwarded 200 miles in Chinese carts, being entertained from time to time by the engineers who were constructing the railroad, and being guided and guarded from one section to another by Cossack soldiers, to the other terminus of the road, 100 miles south of Harbin. Thence, after going down the Sungari River to Khabarovsk and by rail to Vladi- vostok and back again, in July they started up the Amur River, all in ignorance of the progress of the revolution in China. At Vladivostok they paid $8 to send home by cable two words announcing their safety. But at Blagovestchensk they were detained a week during the bombard- ment of the city by the Chinese army which was investing it. Escaping from the city, they boarded, twenty miles above, a steamer which had been used to bring down Russian troops and was to return empty, and after two weeks reached the Siberian Railroad at Stretensk. Following this road 2,000 miles with pauses and short detours on the way, they left it at Omsk, and having ascended the Irtish River by steamer 200 miles, they bought a tarantass and drove 1,400 miles along the border of the Tianshan Mountains to Tashkend, in Turkestan. Thence by the Trans- caspian Railroad, with various pauses along the way (the longest of which was at Samarkand), they crossed the Caspian Sea, reaching the western shore at Baku, the great oil center of Russia. Thence, going through the Transcaucasus region, and pausing a while at Tiflis, they passed on to Batum on the Black Sea and thence to Trebizond, where they made a most important and significant discovery of a recently abandoned shore line 750 feet above the present level of the sea-indi- cating a recent elevation of the land to that extent. Returning to Tiflis, and crossing over the Caucasus Mountains by the celebrated Dariel Pass, they went on northward to Moscow and St. Petersburgh and thence to Odessa, taking, on the way, Kiev, where remarkable remains of glacial man had been discovered. The remainder of their trip took in Con- stantinople, Beirut, a horseback journey of ten days from Damascus to Jerusalem, an excursion to the southern end of the Dead Sea, a trip up the Nile to Assouan, a visit to Naples, Palermo, Rome, Florence, Paris and England. After fourteen months they reached home, having trav- eled, without accident, by every possible mode of conveyance, a distance of 44,000 miles. The results of this expedition appeared in papers pub-
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lished in the Journal of the London Geological Society, in the bulletins of the Geological Society of America, in McClure's Magazine, in the Review of Reviews, and in a series of articles in the New York Nation; and all is summed up in two highly illustrated volumes on "Asiatic Russia," published by McClure, Phillips & Company in 1902.
His first wife having died in 1899, Mr. Wright was married a second time, in 1904, to Miss Florence Eleanor Bedford of Springboro, Warren County, Ohio, and with her has made two visits to Europe. During the first they visited England, Denmark and Sweden; spent six weeks in Russia, visiting there St. Petersburgh, Moscow, Rostoff on the Don and the Crimea; and thence went to Constantinople, Smyrna and Beirut, from which an expedition was made also to the terminal moraine on which the cedars of Lebanon are growing, and a visit was made to Baal- bek and Damascus. In returning home, Egypt, Italy and Northern France were visited. In the second visit, Holland, Belgium and Northern France were visited preliminary to a six months' stay in Southern Eng- land, where glacial studies were continued.
In 1904 Mr. Wright was invited to give the Stone lectures at Prince- ton on "Scientific Confirmations of Old Testament History," the sub- stance of which appeared in a volume under that title published by Bibliotheca Sacra Company in 1906 and the third edition in 1913. This has been translated into Dutch, Swedish and German, and an edition has been sold in England.
The latest literary works of Professor Wright have been a small volume entitled, "See Ohio First," and the editing of the present history of Lorain County. Meanwhile he has been for twenty-five years a member, and for the last six years president, of the Ohio State Arch- æological and Historical . Society, whose museums at Columbus and Fremont are among the most interesting and creditable institutions of the state, and indeed of the whole country. During the last thirty-two years, also, he has been the editor of Bibliotheca Sacra, the oldest theological quarterly of the country, now in its seventy-third year, and for twelve years associated with his son in Washington as editor of Records of the Past. In conducting Bibliotheca Sacra he is supported by the ablest and most advanced scholars in Germany, Holland, Sweden, Great Britain, and the United States, in the defense of the historical truth of the Bible. For eight years he has been relieved from profes- sional duties in college, receiving a Carnegie pension. He is in vigorous health, and hopes to accomplish much more in the completion of the literary work for which his experience has prepared him.
He had four children by his first wife, all of whom are living-Mary Augusta (Berle) now in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Frederick Bennett in Washington, D. C .; Etta Maria, helping him at home; and Helen Marcia, engaged in settlement work.
In 1887 Mr. Wright was made Doctor of Laws (LL. D.) by Drury College, and Doctor of Divinity (D. D.) by Brown University. He is one of the charter members of the Geological Society of America (F. G. S. A.).
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