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M. B. WRIGHT, M. D.
"WHY, there is Dr. Wright; how
lifelike!" was many times remarked by the thousands who had the
pleasure of seeing the hundreds of noble faces on the walls of the
Memorial Gallery. It is probable that this remark was owing to the fact
that Dr. Wright was not only one of our oldest but, without a single
exception, the most generally known, of any physician in Cincinnati.
.For more than forty years he was one of the solid men of this great
city, loved and revered by all who knew him, rich and poor alike.
Dr. 'Wright was born at Pemberton,
Burlington County, New Jersey, November 10, 1803. He commenced the study
of Medicine when only sixteen years of age, and graduated when less than
twenty. In 1822, the father, who had formerly been very wealthy, in
Trenton, New Jersey, removed to Columbus, Ohio, dying the next year,
leaving a widow and seven children without support. Marmaduke Burr
Wright, the young, beardless physician, assumed the task of caring for
the family, and well and faithfully did he perform his duty.
On the 4th of February, 1835, Dr. Wright
was married to one of the most beautiful and accomplished ladies of the
capital city, Miss Mary Lavinia, daughter of Col. P. H. Olmstead.
In 1838, having been elected a professor
in the Medical College of Ohio, Dr. Wright removed to this city, which
henceforth was to be his home. At the time he came here, or soon
afterwards, the old college numbered among its teachers Dr. John
Moorehead, John Eberly, R. D. Mussey, J. P. Kirtland, John Locke, Daniel
Ordke, Jr., John T. Shotwell, L. M. Lawson, John Bell, and Daniel Oliver—verily
a congregation of intellectual giants.
Dr. Wright was kind to the poor,
attentive to his patients, whether he would ever get his pay or not;
loved his family and friends With unfaltering devotion was ever ready to
aid the student or young physician who needed advice, was pleasant and
agreeable to other physicians; but woe unto the man who drew the sword
and sent forth a challenge for debate! M. B. Wright never
failed to respond. He could not have done so if he would; and we do not
now remember a single instance in which he was ever worsted.
Sometimes these intellectual combats were of the most bitter and
acrimonious character—just like lawyers have in court—but they never
left wounds too deep to be healed ; and, in later years, Dr. Wright and
his early contestants enjoyed many a hearty laugh over their early-time
fights, and "the ways that were dark and tricks that were
vain," resorted to to bring their respective colleges out on
top. Prof. Wright was thoroughly scholarly, an eloquent and
impressive lecturer, careful in the examination of a case; but when his
mind was once made up as to the nature of a disease, his treatment was
extraordinarily rapid and successful.
He was a fine writer, and as such was the
author of many valuable contributions to the medical literature of his
times; every article of which is still recognized as authority on the
subject of which it treats.
In 1879 the labors of this great
physician closed, and he now rests from all care in Spring Grove
Cemetery—a widow, daughter, four sons, and a countless number of
friends remembering, with most cherished regard, the kind heart which
has forever ceased its
beatings. DE
B.
Source: In Memoriam
Cincinnati 1881, Cincinnati, A. E. Jones, Publisher, 1881.
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