{{short description|American physician}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Aron Wright | office = President of Miami Valley College | honorific_suffix = | image_size = | term = 1870 - 1879 | birth_date = September 30, 1810 | birth_place = Monlallan, Adams County, Pennsylvania | death_date = {{death date and age|1885|12|15|1810|9|30}} | death_place = Brooklyn, New York | alma_mater = Yale Medical School }} '''Aron Wright''' (September 30, 1810 – December 15, 1885) was an American physician and educator. He was the founder and president of Miami Valley College.
==Life== Wright was born in Monallan, Adams County, Pennsylvania, September 30, 1810. His parents moved four years later, to Springboro, Warren County, Ohio, where he grew up.<ref name=yaleobit>{{cite web|url=http://mssa.library.yale.edu/obituary_record/1859_1924/1885-86.pdf|title=Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale College, 1885-1886|publisher=Yale College|accessdate=March 23, 2020}}</ref>
He began the study of medicine with his sister's husband, John T. Plummer, M. D., of Richmond, Indiana, and later spent two years at Yale Medical School, where he graduated in 1836. After graduation, he practiced for three years in Springboro, but moved to New York City in 1840.<ref name=yaleobit />
After seventeen years practicing medicine in New York, Wright returned to Springboro with his family. He there engaged in the care of landed property left to him by his father.<ref name=yaleobit />
In 1870, Wright and other education-minded Quakers founded in the area of Springboro a manual labor school, Miami Valley College. The school was notable for admitting both men and women. Wright served as president for a period of nine years and contributed financially to the college. The college closed in 1883, soon after he left.<ref name=historicwarren>{{cite book|title= Historic Warren County: An Illustrated History|last=Pauwels|first=Cynthia L.|year=2009|publisher=HPN Books|isbn= 9781935377092|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vx2OQrBhSN4C|pages=38–39}}</ref><ref name=yaleobit />
In 1880, he moved back to New York, where he lived in Brooklyn. He died there in December 15, 1885.
Wright was a prominent member of the Society of Friends. His daughter Mariana Wright Chapman became noted as a Quaker suffragist.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.swarthmore.edu/Library/friends/ead/5260mwch.xml|title=An Inventory of the Family Papers of Mariana Wright Chapman, 1808-1983|last=|first=|date=|website=Swarthmore College|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070419185853/http://www.swarthmore.edu/Library/friends/ead/5260mwch.xml |archive-date=2007-04-19 |access-date=}}</ref>
== References == {{Reflist}}
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==External links== *{{find a Grave|146934391}}
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