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- http://books.google.com/books?id=GqAsAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA178&lpg=PA178&dq=%22laura+hoar%22+wright&source=bl&ots=vF2dXPWrSN&sig=GQnt58U-NQXENHsPujSfqt59cOY&hl=en&ei=wcyKSr7kK4-kMZX3zcAP&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3#v=onepage&q=gerrish&f=false
William H. P. Wright, son of Nathaniel Wright, was born in Lowell, Mass., in 1827, and was educated at the public schools. In 1847 he went to Lawrence, Mass., where his brother Thomas, recently established in the law, was about to open an office, and entered on his law studies in the office of Daniel Sauuders and later in that of Wright & Flanders, a firm of which his brother was the senior member. He was admitted to the Essex county bar in 1849 and settled in Lawrence for life. He was early in his practice appointed clerk of the Lawrence Police Court and subsequently associate justice of that court. In 1861 and 1862 he was chosen mayor of the city, and the duties devolving on him at the beginning of the war were promptly and ably performed. In 1867 and 1868 he was a representative, and for ten years or more afterwards he was actively engaged in the practice of his profession. He married a daughter of Thomas Gerrish of Lowell, and died in Lawrence in 1891.
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