1885 Wright CONSTITUTIONS US & WI Civil War Bull Run

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Madison, WI: Midland Publishing Company. 1885. Small 8vo (12.5 x 19 cm). 303, 174, 2pp ads., with each book having its own title page. Bound in green cloth, with gilt lettering on spine and pictorial front cover blind-stamped with an illustration of the Wisconsin State Capitol Building. Binder's ticket on front pastedown: (Bound by/W. J. Park/& Co./Booksellers/Madison/Wis). Light toning to the pages, with small chips to top of rear free endpaper.

Minor rubbing and edgewear - Very Good.

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Wright, Albert Orville 1842 - 1905

Congregational clergyman, educator, author, b. Rome, N.Y. He graduated from Beloit College (1864) and served in the 40th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. He graduated from Union Theological Seminary in 1867, moved to Wisconsin, and was ordained in the same year. He was pastor at Waterloo (1867-1870) and at New Lisbon (1870-1875). In 1875 he moved to Fox Lake, where he was pastor (1875-1877) and also served as principal of the Wisconsin Female College (1875-1880). The author of several books, articles, and pamphlets, his most widely used textbooks were An Analysis and Exposition of the Constitution of Wisconsin (1873) and An Exposition of the Constitution of the United States (1880), both books passing through almost 100 editions. He was an officer or member of numerous state and national service organizations, including the state board of normal regents, and was secretary of the Wisconsin State Board of Charities and Reform (1880-1891). From 1898 until his death he was supervisor of Indian schools for the Interior Department. He was a trustee of Wisconsin Female (Milwaukee-Downer) College from 1875 until his death. Cong. Year-Book, 1906 (Boston, 1906); F. N. Dexter, comp., 100 Years of Cong. Hist. in Wis. ([Fond du Lac] 1933); H. A. Miner, Hist. of Downer College (n.p., 1920?); A. O. Wright Papers.
[Source: Dictionary of Wisconsin biography]

 

Captain A. J. Langworthy:

Was Captain of Company K, 2nd, at the famous civil war battle of Bull Run, and later became Chairman of the Green Bay Relief Society, who oversaw the relief efforts to the victims of the Great Peshtigo Firestorm of 1871.

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