New Britain herald., 1915-08-04
MEDICAL EXAMINER
 WRIGHT TO RESIGN
Will Leave City After October 1
 to Live in New York
IN OFFICE FOR s2 YEARS

Venerable Physician Is Now Eighty
 One Years of Age and Will Retire
 From Active Work After Enviable
 Career.
 pr. Theodore G. Wright, medical examiner for New Britain and Plain Vile, will resign his position on october l and remove with his daugh- ter from this city to New York, where he will make his home in the future, IL became known today. Dr. Wrights decision to retire from active work, While 1t will occasion some surprise, will not cause anywhere near the sur prise as will the announcement that he is to leave New Britain, for he has lived here much over a quarter of century and has come to be regarded as one of New Britain-s most staunch old timers. His passing from this city, where he has been held in such high esteem for so many years will occa- sion much regret
 In Office Thirty two Years.
 record such as Dr. Wright has to look back upon falls to the lot of but feW- For over thirty-two years medi- cal examiner for New Britain and Plainvilie and for many years of that time successful practicing physician, pr. Wright may well lay aside the cloak of his duties and spend the rest of his days, which his friends expect and hope will be many, in rest and recreation.
 Is Eighty-one Years Old.
 pr. Wright was born at Wilbraham, Mass, on March 3, 1884, being at pres ent eighty-one years of age. Although bls hair has been whitened by the winds of over four score years and his limbs are somewhat enfeepled by the ravages of age, his eighty-one years test lightly on his shoulders and dur ing his entire career up to the present 0ay there never has been storm too severe nor a wintry night too cold or .blustry to hinder him from answering the call of duty and going out into the elements to relieve a stricken patient or to investigate death.
 Graduated Fifty Years Ago. x When young man pr. Wright pre- rared for New York University. where he took a medical course and was graduated with the class of 1865. Inn mediately after his graduation, the Civil war being at it's hegf1t, he was drafted to serve in the Union army, but he was never called upon to go to the front as he entered the employ of the Freedmens Bureau and until 1867 was engaged in educational ser vice in. the South. He was then called to New York city, where he was placed in a responsible and lucrative position es head physician and surgeon in one of the leading hospitals. His desire for further knowledge in his profes- sion prompted Dr. Wright to again go tc studying and in 1870 he spent an- other year at the College vr Physicians and Surgeons. &
 Starting out to acquire a private practice, Dr. Wright first went to Conn.,, where he remained for six years. He then moved to Plainville and thirty-two years ago was appointed as the medical ex- aminer for that town ana the city of New Britain. For many years pr. Wright practiced medicine in PIain- vile and then moved to this city, where for the past thirteen years he has made his home at 24 Camp street.
 Loves His Own Home.
 Tn 1896 Dr. Wright's wife died sud- denly and since her death, nineteen years ago. he has been away from homo oyer night only three times. the last time being on June of this year, when he attended the fiftieth an- liversary of his class at New York At that time pr. Wright | and his family were the guests of 1 Chancellor Elmer E. Brown of the university Dr. Wright has two daughters, Miss Harriet s. Wright, as- ,istant librarian at the New Britain Institute, and Miss Mary L. Wright, a ! New York school teacher.
 Throughout the country pr. Wright l enjoys an extensive acquaintance and l s personal friend of the Rev. Lyman 1 Abbott D, Dssyone of the most famous | hedIog gians In fthe country.
 f All of Dr.fMrtght's ancestors lived l C advaiiced 4ges Hand the local phy- | ,ician expects that this family ten- | lency will be manifest in himself i lis two great grandfathers fought the | 8ritish in the Revolutionary war and | lis own father was a prominent min- ster in Wilbraham.
 Called on Many Cases.
 During the years that pr. Wright las been the medical examiner of this istrict he has attended to over housand cases, among which have cen all of the murders that have aken place in this city and Plainville n over three decades. or the many aurders and suicides and other tragic eaths which Dr. Wright i1as been alled to investigate during his long areer he does not hesitate to declare nat the double murder or Rev Joseph ebris and Eva Gilmanaitis in this city n February of this year was the sost brutal and bloodtnirsty