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maiden name was Mary Peabody Colburn, lived on the original home- 

 stead, while five uncles and an aunt were married and settled upon 

 adjoining farms. 



In the spring of 1855 George Frederick Wright left the Whitehall 

 home and came to Oberlin, Ohio, to enter Oberlin College, where he 

 was graduated in the class of 1859, having met a part of his expenses 

 by teaching in country schools each winter. Through the next three 

 years he was a student of the Oberlin Theological Seminary, being gradu- 

 ated in 1862. At the beginning of the Civil War, in April, -1861, he 

 enlisted in a company formed of Oberlin students, which was enrolled 

 as Company C in the Seventh Begiment of Ohio Volunteers; but soon, 

 on account of severe exposure in picket duty, he was prostrated with 

 pneumonia, which disqualified him for further war service. 



From his theological graduation, Wright was during nearly twenty 

 years a Congregational pastor, at first for a decade in Bakersfield, a small 

 village in the northwestern part of Vermont, and next, from 1872, for 

 the Free Church in Andover, Massachusetts. 



Thence, in 1881, he was called to the chair of Xew Testament Lan- 

 guage and Literature in the Oberlin Theological Seminary, where he 

 was a professor through twenty-six years, his department from 1892 

 being the Harmony of Science and Eevelation. In 1907 he retired from 

 active teaching and became a professor emeritus, receiving a Carnegie 

 pension, with more full opportunities for research and literary work. 



About two years after his coming to the professorship at Oberlin the 

 publication of the Bibliotheca Sacra, a quarterly journal devoted to re- 

 ligion and theology, was removed thither from the theological seminary 

 in Andover, where Wright had frequently contributed to its pages. From 

 1881 he was an associate editor, was advanced in 1883 to its editorial 

 board of three members, and since 1900, with able associates and many 

 contributors, he was its sole responsible editor. 



Having returned in 1901 from a journey across Asia and Europe, he 

 joined with some others, including his son, Frederick Bennett Wright, 

 in establishing at the city of Washington the Records of the Past, begun 

 as a monthly journal, but later issuing six numbers yearly, which con- 

 tinued through twelve years. This magazine, under the editorial direc- 

 tion of Professor Wright and his son, was "designed to bring before the 

 public the most important facts brought out by archaeological excavations 

 and studies the world over.'* It was merged in 1914 with Art ami 

 Archaeology, published by the Archaeological Institute of America. 



His first special studies of the drift formations, in Bakersfield, com- 

 prised a beautiful sand plain or low plateau on which that village is 

 built, with a gravel ridge or esker marking the course of a glacial drain- 



