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DR. C.
O. WRIGHT.
Charles Olmsted Wright, M. D., is a native of Columbus,
Ohio, born December 26, 1835, oldest child of Dr. I.
Marmaduke Burr Wright and Mrs. Mary L. (Olmsted) Wright.
Her father, Philo H. Olmsted, was in his day one of the most
prominent men in Central Ohio, and for | many years was editor
of the State Journal, of that city. The elder Wright was the
famous physician of that name, who spent a large part of his
professional life in this city, and is appropriately noticed
in our chapter on medicine in Cincinnati. He survived until
August 15, 1879, when he died here, full of years and honors.
Mrs. Wright is still living, in a hale and vigorous age.
Charles was but three years old, when the family
was removed to Cincinnati by a call to his father to occupy
the chair of Materta Medica in the Ohio Medical college. His
primary and in part higher education was taken in the public
schools of the city, but stopped when a member of the Hughes
high school without graduating, in 1852, with the intention of
accompanying his parents to Europe. This intention was
abandoned, for the sake of the younger children, who needed
his care; and he took instead a special course of one year in
the Ohio Wesleyan university at Delaware. Leaving this
institution in 1853, he began practice in civil engineering at
the tunnel then being constructed under Walnut Hills, as is
elsewhere related in this history; but was soon compelled by
ill health to seek a more quiet, indoor life. In 1855 he began
the study of medicine with Dr. W. W. Dawson, with whom
he read for a year, when, under friendly advice, he went to
California and engaged in merchandizing there for about six
months, during which he had great experience of the rough and
tumble side of life. He was presently burnt out, however,
losing his entire stock, and was then seized with the spirit
of adventure, pushed across the Pacific to the Sandwich
Islands and thence to the Chinese coast, where he enjoyed a
breadth and minuteness of observation then not often
vouchsafed to a foreigner. Thence he made his way home the
rest of his journey around the world, via Japan, Siam,
Calcutta, Bombay, through the Chusan Archipelago, the island
of Manilla and along the west coast of Africa. From San
Francisco to Cincinnati he occupied three years with his
voyages and land journeys. While in China he found an
extensive field for the observation of skin diseases, and
decided that, if he followed his father's vocation, he would
pay some especial attention to such ailments. Arriving at
home, he promptly resumed his medical studies, becoming a
member of the Ohio Medical college, and enjoying in addition
the instructions of both his father and Dr. Dawson. He
took his diploma of Doctor of Medicine in the summer of 1862,
went immediately before the State board at Columbus, for
examination as a candidate for appointment in the army, passed
it successfully, and was appointed assistant surgeon in the
Thirty-fifth Ohio volunteer infantry. He was captured at
Chickamauga, and for three years was detained as a prisoner at
Atlanta and in the famous Libby prison, at Richmond. He was,
however, as a medical man, allowed some favors, and was
presently released by special exchange, arranged by his
friends at "Washington. He rejoined his regiment at
Chattanooga, during the cold winter of 1862-3 and the
starvation period experienced by the army there. He resigned
on the day of the battle at Kenesaw Mountain, during the
Atlanta campaign, from ill health, and returned home. He had
then reached the full grade of surgeon. Returning home, he was
made a resident physician in the Cincinnati hospital, and also
went into private practice. In this he had his father's
invaluable advice and aid, and soon undertook the same
specialities of practice—obstetrics and diseases of women and
children. He became a member of the staff of the Good
Samaritan hospital and lecturer on skin diseases, and was
afterwards one of the physicians in charge of the dispensary.
He has always maintained a large private practice, but has
found time to write occasional papers for the professional
societies and press, and is an active member of the Cincinnati
academy of medicine, the Obstetrical society and the State
Medical society. He has been called to much service as a
medical examiner for the large life-insurance companies,
having been examiner, among others, for the Mutual Benefit of
New Jersey for sixteen years. He is supreme medical examiner
of the Knights of the Golden Rule for the United States, and
grand medical examiner for the Ancient Order of United Workmen
in Ohio. He does not take a very active part in politics, but
retains his membership in the Grand Army of the Republic.
Dr. Wright was married, in March, 1870,
to Miss Eva, daughter of David K. and Ann
Eliza Cady, of Cincinnati, the former a member of the city
school board for thirty years. They have three children
living, and one, a little girl, in the grave. The surviving
children are David Cady, a boy of nine years;
Marmaduke B. (named from the paternal grandfather), in his
fourth year; and Ann Eliza (from the maternal
grandmother), aged two years. Mary L. died an infant in
1874.
(Submitted by Sharon Wick) |
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