CLASS OF 1867

Amos Willets Wright died November 7 at his home in New York city.

He was born in New York city, November 20, 1845, his parents being Dr. Aaron and Mary (Willets) Wright. He prepared for college at the preparatory department of Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, and was for some time a member of that college in the class of '65, being later in Miami University, and entering Dartmouth at the beginning of junior year. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi.

His life was devoted chiefly to journalism, in which he showed marked literary ability and achieved success. From 1868 to 1871 he was editor of the Fort Wayne (Ind.) Gazette; then night editor of the Chicago Inter-Ocean for a year and a half; associate editor of the "Milwaukee Sentinel for the same period; lecturer on English literature at Miami Valley College for a short time; associate editor of the St. Louis Globe-Demo-crat; editorial writer on the New York World for four years; an editorial writer on Harper's Weekly.

January 21, 1869, he was married to Dot Eunice Head of Kenosha, Wis. They had no children.