Excerpt from An Address Delivered in St. James' Church, Wilmington, N. C., At the Interment of Dr. Thomas H. Wright, Monday, September 23d, 1861 Dr. Thomas H. Wright was born on the 17 th of January. 1800. In the town of Wilmington, where he resid during his entire lite. When prwepmd h r College he enter4 (1 the University 01 North Carolina, and graduated there In 1820. After his graduation he studied mt dioine and practisrd his prolc8el0) for several years, but not finding it congenial with his ta two it as abandoned. In January, 1842, he was elr cted Cashier of the Bank of Cape Ft ar. Which office he held until May, 1847, when he was made President of that institu tion, and continued to occupy that position to the period of his death, which occurred lt September, 1861. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.