Eminent Americans : comprising brief biographies of leading statesmen, patriots, orators and others, men and women who have made American history . ere the incipient measures which led to agreat result. Mr. Wright was very active, until operations were suspended bythe war with Groat Britain. They were resumed, with vigor, in 1816, whenJudge Goddes and Mr. Wright were charged with the construction of the ErieCanal. Under their direction the work went steadily on, until 1825, when thestupendous undertaking was completed. In 1814, Mr, Wright was appointed one of the judges for Oneida county; andd
Eminent Americans : comprising brief biographies of leading statesmen, patriots, orators and others, men and women who have made American history . ere the incipient measures which led to agreat result. Mr. Wright was very active, until operations were suspended bythe war with Groat Britain. They were resumed, with vigor, in 1816, whenJudge Goddes and Mr. Wright were charged with the construction of the ErieCanal. Under their direction the work went steadily on, until 1825, when thestupendous undertaking was completed. In 1814, Mr, Wright was appointed one of the judges for Oneida county; andduring the remainder of his ITe, he was either a consulting or chief engineer inthe construction of almost every important work of internal improvement through-out the country. In 1835, he went to Cuba, by invitation of the authoritiesand capitalists there, to consult respecting a railroad from Havana to the in-terior of the island. After that he did not engage much in active life; and onthe 24th of August, 1842, he died, in the city of New York, when in the seventy-second year of his age. 1. Sco sketch of Dewitt Clinton. 864 ADONIRAM ADONIRAM JUDSON. IN the little parlor of the late Professor Stuart, at Andover, Massachusetts, ona sultry day in June, 1810, a few grave men consulted upon the expediencyof forming a Foreign Missionary Society. A few pious and zealous young men,students in the Andover Theological Seminary, who ardently desired employ-ment in the missionary field of far-oS India, had urged the propriety of such ameasure. That consultation was favorable, and at the meeting of the GeneralAssociation, the following day, at Bradford, an earnest memorial was presented,signed by four of those young men. The American Board of Commissioners forForeign Missions, was then established;^ and in Februarj^, 1812, three of thesigners of that memorial sailed for India, the pioneer American missionaries tothe heathen in distant lands. The three were Adoniram Judson, jr. (au
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