His parents moved four years later, to Springboro, Warren County, Ohio, where he grew up.
[1] He began the study of medicine with his sister's husband, John T. Plummer, M. D., of Richmond, Indiana, and later spent two years at Yale Medical School, where he graduated in 1836.
[1] After seventeen years practicing medicine in New York, Wright returned to Springboro with his family.
[1] In 1870, Wright and other education-minded Quakers founded in the area of Springboro a manual labor school, Miami Valley College.
Wright served as president for a period of nine years and contributed financially to the college.