CLASS OF 1854

William Chandler Wright, a non-graduate member of this class in the Chandler School, died of apoplexy in Los Angeles, Cal., February 15, 1909. His parents were John and Irene (Smith) Wright, and he was born in Thetford, Vt., April 22, 1834. His preparation was at Thetford Academy. He entered mercantile business in New York, and continued in that city, in Chicago, and in San Francisco until 1900, when he retired on account of ill health. Since the great conflagration of April, 1906, he had made his home in Los Angeles. July 20, iB6O, he was married to Julia Augusta Thompson of Brooklyn, N. Y., who died in San Francisco, Dec. 3, 1901. They have one son, Frederick William, who is in the hardware business in San Francisco.

Secretary, Benjamin A. Kimball, Concord, N. H.