He attended the district school during the winter months, working for the neighboring farmers the rest of the year.

He saved up a small sum of money and entered Lancasterian University in Ithaca, New York State.

In April 1865, Wright was sent by the American Missionary Society to Beaufort, South Carolina, as a teacher and laborer among the freed slaves.

He was the convention vice-president and helped draft the judiciary section of the State Constitution, which remains today.

[3] His death was covered on the front page of the Charleston News and Courier including the statement that "one more relic of Reconstruction disappears.