Wright, Carroll Davidson. Educator, economist, statistician. Born in Dunbarton, NH, July 25, 1840. Academic education (A. M., LL. D., Tufts; Ph. D., Dartmouth; LL. D., Wesleyan and Clark universities. Served in Civil War, private to colonel, 14th New Hampshire volunteers. Member of Massachusetts senate, 1872-73. Chief of Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics of Labor, 1873-88. United States Commissioner of Labor, 1885-1902. Also, 1893-97, completed eleventh United States census. Honorary professor of social economics, Catholic University of America, 1895-1904. Professor of statistics and social economics, school of comparative jurisprudence and diplomacy, Columbia University, 1900. University lecturer on wage statistics, Harvard University, 1900-01. President of Clark College, Worcester, MA, 1902-1909. Appointed by President member and recorder of United States Anthracite Strike Commission, 1902. Trustee of Carnegie Institute, Washington. Author: "The Factory System of the United States," "Relation of Political Economy to the Labor Question," "The Social, Commercial, and Manufacturing Statistics of the City of Boston," "History of Wages and Prices in Massachusetts, 1752-1883," "The Industrial Evolution of the United States," "The Public Records of Parishes, Towns, and Counties in Massachusetts," "Outline of the United States Census." Died 1909.

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