Excerpt from Halls of New England, Page 223:
(Family 201.) MARY A. FORBUSH7, pedigree as before: b. 1825; m., 1845, Norman F. Wright, of Vermont, b. March 25, 1815; Mr. Wright and his twin brother Truman K. Wright, were students in Burr Seminary at Manchester, Vt., from the time it was opened for students, May, 1833, to the fall of 1835, when they entered Middlebury College, and graduated in 1839. Since that time they have been engaged in teaching schools and academies. Norman F. Wright, was superintendent of schools at Binghamton, N. Y., when he received the appointment of professor of Latin and Greek in the State Normal school at Cortland, New York. He was a Presbyterial commissioner in 1874 or 7, in the general assembly of the Presbyterian church. Truman K. Wright, has been the principal for nearly 30 years of the Monroe Collegiate Institute, at Eldridge, Onondaga Co., N. Y. The Wright brothers had for classmates at Burr Seminary, Rev. Anson H. Parmelee (see Middletown Halls), Rev. Lathrop Taylor of (???), Ill. (see Medford Halls, 5th part). Rev John Du Bois, of Wurtsborough, N. Y. Rev. James DUBUAR of Northville, Mich. Rev. (???) Kidder of Michigan. Prof. Richard K. Todd of Illinois. Rev. Dr. Samuel J. White of Connecticut; and many others, who commenced study at mature age with limited means, and found a cheap and at the same time an efficient school in Burr Seminary, without which they could never have obtained their education. It was a manual labor institution, where they could keep up |