Peter Clark Wright

Background

Wright, Peter Clark was born on November 27, 1870 in Merton, Wisconsin, United States. Son of Charles and Phoebe Robinson (Mead) Wright.

Education

Graduate Wayland Academy, Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, 1891. Bachelor of Arts, Brown U., 1895, Doctor of Divinity, 1917. Bachelor of Divinity, Division School, University of Chicago, 1902.

Career

Ordained Baptist ministry, 1895. Pastor successively Central Church, Norwich, Connecticut, Gethsemane Church, Philadelphia, Asylum Avenue Church, Hartford, Connecticut, until 1920.

Membership

Member of the board and Executive Committee Connecticut Baptist Convention, 1902-1913. Member Ministers and Missionaries Benefit Board, Northern Baptist Convention, 1911-1920, recording secretary, 1911-1926, associate secretary, 1920-1926, executive secretary, 1926-1940. Member Advisory Committee Federal Council Churches of Christ in America, 1933-1940.

Member Universal Christian Council for Life and Work, American Section, 1932-1940.

Connections

Married Alice Eugenia McIntyre, June 25, 1895 (died June 16, 1929).; married second,Corelia M Parish-Updyke, 1932, married 3d, Irene M. Lamb, September 24, 1937. Children: Charles Eugene, Burchard Updyke, Stuart Mead, Harmon McIntyre.

Father:

Charles Wright

Mother:

Phoebe Robinson (Mead) Wright

Spouse:

Alice Eugenia McIntyre

Spouse:

Corelia M Parish-Updyke

Spouse:

Irene M. Lamb

child:

Charles Eugene Wright

child:

Burchard Updyke Wright

child:

Stuart Mead Wright

child:

Harmon McIntyre Wright