WRIGHT. Carroll Davidson, American statistician and sociologist : h. Dunbarton, N. H., 28 July 1840; d Worcester, Mass., 20 Feb. 1909.
After studying law, he enlisted in the 14th New Hampshire volunteers at the outbreak of the Civil War, and in 1864 became its colonel. In 1865 he was admitted to the bar at Keene. N. H., in 1867 began practice at Boston, in 1872-73 was a member of the Massachusetts senate, and in 1873-88 chief of the Massa chusetts Bureau of Labor Statistics. He was appointed national commissioner of labor in 1885, and he continued in this office for some time after his election as president of the col legiate department of Clark University (Wor cester, Mass.) in 1902. In 1895 he became hon orary professor of social economics in the Co lumbian University (now George Washington). and delivered lectures in numerous institutions. He was chosen president of the Amencan Statistical Association, •in 1902 chairman of the section on social and economic science in the American Association for the Advancement of Science and vice-president of the associa tion, and in 1903 president. He was re
corder of the commission appointed by the President to arbitrate in connection with the anthracite coal strike in the fall of 1902 In 1906 the order of Saints Maurizio e Laz zaro was conferred upon him by the king of Italy in recognition of his services as political economist. Besides numerous con tributions to periodicals, he has published 'The Industrial Evolution of the United States' (1895) ; 'Outlines of Practical Sociology' 'Some Ethical Phases of the Labor uestion' (1902); 'Battles of Labor' (1906); he Apprenticeship System in its Relation to Industrial Education' (1908). Consult Wallin. H. G., 'Carroll Davidson Wright: a Memorial' (Boston 1911).