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Samuel Hart Wright (1825–1905) was a farmer, astronomer, botanist, teacher, and almanac editor.[1][2][3] He accumulated and maintained a large collection of plants. He catalogued Hartwrightia and it is named for him. He served as an editor of the Farmers' Almanac.

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Wright was from Peekskill, New York and later lived in Jerusalem, New York. He taught at Dundee Academy.[2]

He helped produce The Illustrated Family Christian Almanac for the United States in 1867.[4]

He corresponded with John Torrey in 1870.[5]

Wright published a regular column including a mathematics problem.[6]

Malacologist Berlin Hart Wright (1851–1940) was his son.[7][1]

Charles Willison Johnson wrote about him in 1906 in The Nautilus.[8]

The standard author abbreviation S.H. Wright is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[9]

References

External links

• Samuel Hart Wright at Find a Grave

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