Samuel Hart Wright

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File:Wright Survey.jpg by Samuel Hart Wright in 1879]]

Samuel Hart Wright (c. 1825–1905) was a farmer, astronomer, botanist, teacher, and almanac editor.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9tt2CQAAQBAJ&q=samuel+hart+wright&pg=PT43|title=Curiosities of the Finger Lakes: Hidden Ancient Ruins, Flying Machines, the Boy Who Caught a Trout with His Nose and More|first=Melanie|last=Zimmer|date=May 13, 2014|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|via=Google Books|isbn=9781625845450}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.crookedlakereview.com/articles/67_100/68nov1993/68cleveland.html|title=Biography of Samuel Hart Wright, M.D., A. M.|website=www.crookedlakereview.com}}{{cite web |title=Wright, Samuel Hart (1825-1905) on JSTOR |url=https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.person.bm000335046 |website=Global Plants |publisher=JSTOR }} He accumulated and maintained a large collection of plants. He catalogued Hartwrightia and it is named for him. He served as an editor of the Farmers' Almanac.

Wright was from Peekskill, New York and later lived in Jerusalem, New York. He taught at Dundee Academy.

He helped produce The Illustrated Family Christian Almanac for the United States in 1867.{{cite web | url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/724720 | title=Samuel Hart Wright | the Family Christian Almanac for the United States, for the year of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, 1867 }}

He corresponded with John Torrey in 1870.{{Cite web|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/159177|title=Samuel Hart Wright and John Torrey correspondence, 1870|first=Samuel Hart|last=Wright|date=November 5, 1870|website=Biodiversity Heritage Library}}

Wright published a regular column including a mathematics problem.{{Cite web | url=http://bullock1.com/MathDeptYatesCountyChron.pdf | title=The mathematical department of the Yates County Chronicle | access-date=2024-06-19}}

Malacologist Berlin Hart Wright (1851–1940) was his son.{{Cite web|url=https://www.jaxshells.org/heckscher.htm|title=What's In A Name Or Two?|website=www.jaxshells.org}}

Charles Willison Johnson wrote about him in 1906 in The Nautilus.{{Cite journal|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/95286|title=Samuel Hart Wright|first=Charles Willison|last=Johnson|date=November 5, 1906|journal=The Nautilus|volume=19|pages=105–106}}

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