Where Was I
" Where Was I?" may refer to:
Eli Todd Tappan
Eli Todd Tappan( 1824–1888) was an American educator, mathematician, author, lawyer and newspaper editor who served as president of Kenyon College, among other public distinctions.
He was the son of Senator Benjamin Tappan and the father of author Mary Tappan Wright.
The Test (Wright novel)
The Test is a novel by Mary Tappan Wright.
It was first published in hardcover by Charles Scribner's Sons in February, 1904.
It was Wright's second published novel and third published book.
Mary Tappan Wright
Mary Tappan Wright (1851–1916) was an American novelist and short story writer best known for her acute characterizations and depictions of academic life.
She was the wife of classical scholar John Henry Wright and the mother of legal scholar and utopian novelist Austin Tappan Wright and geographer John Kirtland Wright.
Austin Tappan Wright
Austin Tappan Wright( August 20, 1883 – September 18, 1931) was an American legal scholar and author, best remembered for his major work of Utopian fiction," Islandia".
He was the son of classical scholar John Henry Wright and novelist Mary Tappan Wright, the brother of geographer John Kirtland Wright, and the grandfather of editor Tappan Wright King.
Tappan Wright King
Tappan Wright King( born 1950) is an American editor and author in the field of fantasy fiction, best known for editing" The Twilight Zone Magazine" and its companion publication" Night Cry" in the late 1980s.
Much of his work has appeared under a shorter form of his name, Tappan King.
He is the grandson of legal scholar and utopian novelist Austin Tappan Wright and the husband of author and editor Beth Meacham.
He and his wife live near Tucson, Arizona.
John Henry Wright
John Henry Wright (February 4, 1852 – November 25, 1908) was an American classical scholar born at Urumiah (Rezaieh), Persia.
He earned his Bachelors (1873) and Masters (1876) at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire.
After junior appointments (first in Ohio and then at Dartmouth) in 1886 he joined Johns Hopkins as a professor of classical philology.
In 1887, he became a professor of Greek at Harvard, where, from 1895 to 1908, he was also Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
Some of Wright's most notable works are "A History of All Nations from the Earliest Times" (1905), a 24–volume history of the world; the translations "Masterpieces of Greek literature" (1902); and "The Origin of Plato's Cave" (1906).
He was active in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philological Association, and similar organizations.
From 1889 to 1906 he co-edited the "Classical Review" (later "Classical Quarterly") and from 1897 to 1906 he was chief editor of the "American Journal of Archaeology".
In 1893 Wright met the Indian Hindu monk Swami Vivekananda, who greatly influenced him; Wright described Vivekananda as "more learned than all our learned professors put together."
Wright received LL.D.s from Dartmouth and Case Western Reserve University in 1901.
He died on 25 November 1908 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
John Kirtland Wright
John Kirtland Wright( 1891–1969) was an American geographer, notable for his cartography, geosophy, and study of the history of geographical thought.
He was the son of classical scholar John Henry Wright and novelist Mary Tappan Wright, and the brother of legal scholar and utopian novelist Austin Tappan Wright.
He married Katharine McGiffert Jan. 21, 1921 in New York, N.Y.
They had three children: Austin McGiffert Wright, Gertrude Huntington McPherson, and Mary Wolcott Toynbee.
Having completed a PhD in history at Harvard University, in 1920 Wright was employed as librarian by the American Geographical Society; between the years of 1920 and 1956 he also served as an AGS editor, personal academic contributor, and eventually director.
As a result of his prolific academic and professional life, three main themes have emerged in John K.
Wright ’s published works.
These include: the overlapping of academic disciplines( mainly history) with geography, the power of the mind and the supernatural realm in creating subjectivity in geographic research, and the importance of sharing academic knowledge.
Austin Tappan Wright
Austin Tappan Wright( August 20, 1883 – September 18, 1931) was an American legal scholar and author, best remembered for his major work of Utopian fiction," Islandia".
He was the son of classical scholar John Henry Wright and novelist Mary Tappan Wright, the brother of geographer John Kirtland Wright, and the grandfather of editor Tappan Wright King.
Mark Saxton
Mark Saxton
( November 24, 1914 – January 7, 1988) was an American author and editor.
He is chiefly remembered for helping edit for publication Austin Tappan Wright ’s Utopian novel" Islandia", and for his own three sequels to Wright's work.

Question: Where did Mary Tappan Wright's husband die?