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Eminent as one of the founders of sound life insurance in Massachusetts

Miss Wright graduated from the Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois., A.B., 1866, A.M., 1868. She taught in Plainwell, Michigan, being the first woman superintendent of the graded schools of a town in that state, and subsequently devoted herself to the promotion of the higher education of women and the woman suffrage movement. She became principal of the Girls' Classical school, founded by her husband in Indianapolis, Indiana, 1882; and in 1891-92, traveled extensively in Europe in the interests of the Congress of Representative Women at the Columbian exposition, 1893, of which, as the president of the National Council of Women of the United States of America, she was the organizer. She was chairman of the executive committee of the National Woman Suffrage association, 1882-89; member of the Indiana commission in the board of World's Fair commissioners, 1892-93; president of the National Council of Women, 1891-95 and again, 1896-99, and in 1899 was made honorary president. She was president of the International Council of Women, 1899-1904, and was sent as a delegate to the Universal Congress of Women in Paris, 1889, where she delivered addresses in French; to Halifax, N.S., 1897; to Ottawa, Canada, 1898; to London, 1897 and 1898, and to The Hague, 1898.

She was a U.S. commissioner to the Paris exposition, 1900, and to the various congresses held during the same year. She was also officially connected with many literary, historical, artistic, and reform organizations at home and abroad; organized the Annual Peace Demonstration by Women of the United States in 1899, and originated the New Internationalism. She is the author of several books, pamphlets and monographs, and became widely known as a lecturer and contributor to current periodicals.¹

Professor of international law at the University of Virginia.

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. 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