Carroll Davidson Wright 

 I 840-1909 



Carroll Davidson Wright died at his home in Worcester, 

 Mass., February 20, 1909. He was one of the small body of men 

 who gave aid and counsel in inaugurating and maturing the 

 plans of the Institution. He was from the beginning a Trustee 

 and a member of the Executive Committee, serving as Chairman 

 of this Committee from 1904 to 1908, and his experience and 

 advice were of signal service to the Institution. He gave much 

 time and thought to the organization of research work in Eco- 

 nomics and Sociology, and when in 1903 the Board of Trustees 

 established a department devoted to these subjects, he was 

 appointed to direct its affairs. 



In the early days of the civil war Mr. Wright enlisted as a 

 private in the Fourteenth New Hampshire Volunteers, and he 

 reached the rank of colonel in that regiment. He was a member 

 of the State Senate of Massachusetts in 1872-73, and chief of the 

 Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics of Labor from 1873 to 1878. 

 From 1885 to 1905 he was United States Commissioner of Labor, 

 and during that period he served as a member and recorder of the 

 United States Anthracite Strike Commission and supervised the 

 completion of the Eleventh Census. He was also professor of 

 social economics at the Catholic University of America, professor 

 of statistics and social economics at the Columbian University, 

 and University lecturer on wage statistics at Harvard University. 

 In 1902 he became president of Clark College and remained in 

 that position until his death. His efficient labors in the cause of 

 education, as teacher, lecturer, and administrator were character- 

 ized by broad sympathies, sound judgment, and keen appreciation 

 of the developing needs of the generation in which he lived, and 

 all his life work was marked by earnest and unselfish devotion 

 to the highest ideals of citizenship. 



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