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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Elizur Wright (1804–1885)

Wright, Elizur. An American reformer, journalist, and author; born in South Canaan, CT, Feb. 12, 1804; died in Medford, MA, Nov. 21, 1885. He was identified with the antislavery movement in 1833; was editor of the newspapers The Emancipator, and Human Rights, and the quarterly antislavery Magazine. He published several works on life insurance, ‘Savings Banks Life Insurance’ (1872); ‘The Politics and Mysteries of Life Insurance’ (1873), etc.; and was Insurance Commissioner of Massachusetts. He wrote an introduction to Whittier’s poems (1844); and published a translation in verse of ‘La Fontaine’s Fables’ (1859).