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Philip Green Wright, noted economist and former member of the Advisory Board of the Tariff Commission and of the staff of Brookings Institution. died yesterday at Garfield after an illness of several months. He was in his seventy-third year.
Dr. Wright, who made his home at Forest Olen, Md., joined the Tariff Commission in 1917, and five years later went to Brookings. He retired in 1939. Since then, he has done research work for the institute of Pacific Relations, and last year made a study for the Duke Foundation of the effect of inflation on handling of endowment funds.
He was for years a prolific writer on economic subjects and more recently had studied extensively the problems growing out of the depression. in connection with this, publishing a pamphlet on unemployment - "Outcasts of efficiency." Dr. Wright also published several volumes of poems, and aside from these labors found time to cultivate a flower garden at his home that is one of the show places of the suburbs. He served as president of the Capitol View Citizens' Association. He also was a member of the Cosmos Club.
Wright was born in Boston, the grandson of Elizur Wright, who often is called "the father of life insurance in the United States" by reason of the improvements he obtained in life insurance laws.
His early education was received in Tufts College, and then followed a year in Harvard from which he received his master's degree in 1885. Afterward Dr. Wright taught economics and mathematics at Lombard College. Galesburg. Ill., which conferred upon him the degree of LL D. i in 1930.
In 1889 Dr. Wright married Elizabeth Quincy Sewall of St. Paul who, with three sons, survives him. They are Sewall Wright, professor of genetics at the University of Chicago; Quincy Wright, professor of international law at the same institution, and Theodore Wright, manager of the Curtiss Aircraft Corp, at Buffalo. Evening Star, 5 September 1934.⁴

Joanna C. (Wyman) Sewall, age 76, of Pembroke, died at her home, Friday, Jan. 13, 2012.
Born in Boston, Joanna lived her entire life in Pembroke, growing up on West Elm St., before moving to her home on Center St. She was an active member of the First Church of Pembroke for many years and worked at the Pembroke Post Office for many years as a mail carrier. Joanna loved spending time with her family and cats. She also enjoyed gardening. Joanna was the beloved wife of the late Richard Sewall; devoted mother of James Richard Sewall and his wife Carol of MD, William Lang Sewall of Plymouth, Barbara Ann Reed and her husband William of Pembroke, Harold Dean Sewall and his wife Kim of CA and Ericjohn Sewall and his wife Sherri of Pembroke; loving grandmother of Philip, Julia, John, Chad, Jenna, Joanne, Greg, Lucas, Emily and great-grandmother of Hayley and Daylen; dear sister of William "Ritchie" Wyman of Pembroke and John H. Wyman of Boston. Calling hours at the Shepherd Funeral Home, 7 Mattakeesett St., (Rte. 14), Pembroke, Monday, Jan. 16, from 4-8 p. m. Her funeral service will be held at the First Church of Pembroke, 105 Center St., Pembroke, Tuesday, Jan. 17 at 9:30 a. m. Interment will follow at the Center Cemetery, Pembroke.⁴