PROFESSOR GEORGE FREDERICK WRIGHT, D.D., LL.D., 



was born in Whitehall, N. Y., January 22, 1838. He graduated in the 

 classical course of Oberlin College in 1859 and from the Theological 

 Seminary in 1862. From 1862 to 1871 he was pastor of a Congregational 

 Church in Bakersfield, Vermont. He there commenced to give attention 

 to the study of local geology, getting suggestions from Professor C. H. 

 Hitchcock and writing on the glacial phenomena for the papers. 



In 1871 he became pastor at Andover, Mass., where he pursued a more 

 systematic study of glacial phenomena, making the happy acquaintance of 

 Professor Asa Gray, of Harvard, and Professor Alpheus Hyatt, of the Boston 

 Society of Natural History, pursuing a very active intellectual career, 

 and as early as 1876 his extended observations were reported at length in 

 the proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History. While thus 

 engaged, Mr. Clarence King gave him information of the terminal moraine 

 south of New England. From that time on, the subject was never out of 

 his mind, and his summer months, with much other spare time, were devo- 

 ted to it. 



He spent four seasons in New England, and, in company with Professor 

 H. Carvill Lewis, followed the line already surveyed by Professors Cook 

 and Smock through New Jersey. 



These two were then invited by Professor Lesley to survey the boundary 

 line in Pennsylvania. Their report is Volume Z of the 2d Penn. Geological 

 Survey. 



In 1881 he became professor in the Oberlin Theological Seminary. 

 Shortly after, the Billiotheca Sacra was moved from Andover to Oberlin, to 

 be placed under his editorship, and he has been one of its editors ever since. 



His duties as professor have, since that time, given him several months 

 each year ; all devoted to glacial studies. 



In 1882-83 he followed the limits of the great ice sheet through Ohio, 

 Kentucky and Indiana. The results partly appeared in the American 

 Journal of Science for July, 1883, and a full report with maps in Tract 

 60 of the Western Reserve Historical Society. The line was continuously 

 traced and in the^above report maps are given for the States and for every 

 county in Ohio. The report was reprinted verbatim by the State of 

 Pennsylvania. 



In 1884 he was employed by the United States Geological Survey to 

 trace the line to the Mississippi River and to review the field in Ohio and 

 Pennsylvania. 



The condensed report of his work was issued in 1890, and contained 

 the result of observations made to that year. (Bull. 58,U. S. Geol. Survey.) 



