Hendrick Bradley Wright (Dickinson Chronicles)
Scholarship
John Osborne and James W. Gerencser, eds., “Hendrick Bradley Wright,” Dickinson Chronicles, http://chronicles.dickinson.edu/encyclo/w/ed_wrightHB.htm.
Hendrick Bradley Wright was born on April 24, 1808, the oldest child of a farming and merchant family at Plymouth, Pennsylvania. He attended local schools and the Wilkes-Barre Academy. In May 1829, he entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania with the class of 1831 but did not graduate. Instead, he returned to Wilkes-Barre in early 1831 to study law.