Phyllis WRIGHT ( - )

1 Phyllis WRIGHT^1,2 ( - ) [10009].

From the New York Times.

May 18, 1941 - "Announcement has been made of the engagement of Miss Phyllis Wright, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Austin Tappan Wright of Cambridge, Mass., and niece of Miss Amy Fay Stone of this city, to Lowell King, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence King of Silvermine, Conn.
Miss Wright attended the Buckingham School, Cambridge, Mass., and is completing her studies at Bryn Mawr College. Her father was a former professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania, and her grandfather, Dr. John Henry Wright, was at one time dean of the Graduate School of Harvard University.".

2 Austin Tappan WRIGHT^1,3 (1883-1931) [9993]. Born 20 Aug 1883, Hanover, NH.^1,3 Died 17 Sep 1931, Bernal, NM.^3,4 Cause: Auto accident.

From a biography of Austin Tappan Wright by Dr. Andrew Wood, member of the faculty of San Jose State University.

"Austin Tappan Wright was born on 20 August, 1883 in Hanover, New Hampshire to John Henry Wright (Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University) and Mary Tappan Wright (a novelist). He was educated at Harvard College (1905), and Harvard Law School (1908), where he edited the Harvard Law Review and graduated cum laude. He married Margaret Garrad Stone and had four children, William Austin, Sylvia, Phyllis, Benjamin Tappan. After serving in the Boston law firm of Louis Brandeis, Wright took faculty positions at the University of California law school at Berkeley (1916-1924) and the University of Pennsylvania law school (1924-1931). He died on 18 September, 1931 in a
car accident.

Islandia

From his early childhood, Wright spent much of his private time developing an imaginary realm called Islandia, a community on a small subcontinent in the South Pacific. As he advanced in his career as a legal philosopher and teacher, Wright amassed thousands of pages detailing the geography, language, religion, history, and even the peerage of his own private Utopia. After his death, Wright's widow taught herself to type and organized a two-thousand page novel from his papers. Her daughter edited the typescript to just over a thousand pages and persuaded Farrar & Rinehart to publish Islandia in 1942, eleven years after Wright's death. The book sold approximately 30,000 copies.

In the novel, a pre-industrial civilization confronts early twentieth century colonialism in a struggle to reconcile their happily unadorned culture with the excesses of modem technology. The protagonist, John Lang, attempts to mediate this culture clash as a United States consul - but gradually comes to appreciate Islandian life. Eventually, he brings his New England bride to the Island and rejects American culture altogether. Despite some elements of Islandia which contain a distressingly racist tinge; the novel's progressive attitude towards the stale of women in Wright's time (and our own) made
this novel a classic in Utopian literature."

From the Hartford Courant (Hartford, CT)

September 20, 1931 - "Philadelphia, Sept. 19, - (AP)- Word was received here today that Austin Tappan Wright, 48, a native of Hanover N.H., and a professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania for six years was killed Thursday in an automobile accident at Bernal, N.M. He was motoring from California with his son, William, to his home here.
Mr. Wright practiced law in Boston from 1908 to 1915 and formerly taught in the University of California.".

4 John Henry WRIGHT² ( - ) [10017].

3 Margaret Garrad STONE^3,5 (1886-1937) [9971]. Born 19 Jul 1886.^3,6 Died 1 Sep 1937, England.³

From the Fay family papers collection, 1800-1953, Radcliffe College.

"Margaret ("Margot") Stone, mother of Sylvia (Wright) Mitarachi, was born on July 19, 1886. She attended the Buckingham School in Cambridge, took courses at Radcliffe College, studied French in Paris and Brussels, and was trained as a pianist. On November 14, 1912, she married a neighbor, Austin Tappan Wright, a Harvard Law School graduate who later taught at the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Pennsylvania. After ATW's death in an automobile accident is 1931, MSW returned to Cambridge with her four children and worked as a secretary at the Browne and Nichols Lower School; during this time she typed the manuscript of ATW's novel, Islandia (New York and Toronto, 1942). She died in England on September 1, 1937."

The Stone-Jackson Family Papers, 1819-1954, at the Massachuestts Historical Society report Margaret's middle name as Gerrad while Fay papers show Garrad.

6 William Eben STONE^5,6 (1845-1921) [9968]. Born 27 Nov 1845, Walpole, MA.⁵ Marr Katharine Marie FAY 22 Jun 1871, Cambridge, MA.⁵ Died 1921.⁶

From the Stone-Jackson Family Papers, 1819-1954, at the Massachusetts Historical Society.

"William Eben Stone (1845-1921), the son of Ebenezer (b.1797) and Elizabeth Holbrook Hawes Stone (1809-1860), graduated from Brown University in 1866 and received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1868. He served as the treasurer of the Champion Iron Co. of Michigan in Boston from 1882-1903 and had homes in Cambridge, Mass. and Fisher's Island, N.Y.
Stone married Katharine Marie Fay (1849-1928), the daughter of Charles Fay, in 1871. They had four children: Pauline Fay Stone Jackson (1874-1961), Reginald Stone (1877-1892), Amy Fay Stone (b. 1884), and Margaret Herrad Stone Wright (b. 1886).

12 Ebenezer STONE⁶ ( - ) [10004].

13 Elizabeth Holbrook HAWES⁶ ( - ) [10005].

7 Katharine Marie FAY^5,6 (1846-1928) [9967]. Born 6 Jul 1846, New Orleans, LA.⁵ Died 1928.⁶

14 Charles FAY^5,7 (1808-1888) [9919]. Born 21 Jul 1808.⁵ Marr Charlotte Emily HOPKINS 5 Sep 1833, Burlington, VT.⁵ Marr Sophronia B. ADAMS 9 May 1864.⁵ Died 6 Nov 1888, New York City, NY.⁷ Buried Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge MA.⁷

From the Chicago Tribune.

November 16, 1888 - "Death of a Venerable Episcopal Minister.
The Rev. Dr. Charles Fay, some time a resident of this city, died at the house of Mrs. M.F. Peirce, No 7 East Thirty-first street, New York, the morning of Tuesday, Nov. 6, 1888. He was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass, upon the Friday following.
Dr. Fay was born in Cambridge July 21, 1808, and was therefore in his 81st year. He was the son of the Hon. S.P.P. Fay and his wife, Harriet Howard Fay. He was graduated at Harvard - as were his father, grandfather and great-grandfather - in the celebrated class of 1829, of which he was the valedictorian. Among his classmates were the Rev. James Freeman Clarke, Dr. Oliver Wendal Holmes, Prof. Benjamin Peirce, the Rev. Charles F. Smith, the Rev. Samuel May, William Gray, and other noted men, and was the fiftieth of his class to depart this life. Twelve survive, several of whom were present at his funeral. He was married twice; his first wife was a daughter of the Rt. Rev. J.H. Hopkins, Bishop of Vermont, and his second, who survives him, is a daughter of the Hon. Samuel Adams of Grand Isle. He leaves seven children, several of whom were residents of this cit
He was for forty years a successful minister of the Protestant Episcopal Church, chiefly in the Diocese of Vermont, but had long retired from active service.".

15 Charlotte Emily HOPKINS⁸ (1817-1856) [9934]. Born 4 May 1817, the Hermitage, PA.⁵ Died 23 Sep 1856, St. Albans, VT.⁵

Sources

1	"From a biography of Austin Tappan Wright by Dr. Andrew Wood, member of the faculty of San Jose State University.".

2	"Engagement announcement of Phyllis Wright and Lowell King in the New York Times, May 18, 1941".

3	"Fay family papers collection, 1800-1953, Radcliffe College".

4	"Obituary of Austin Tappan Wright in the Hartford Courant (Hartford, CT), September 20, 1931".

5	"Fay Genealogy: John Fay of Marlborough and his Descendants by Orlin P. Fay, 1898".

6	"Stone-Jackson Family Papers, 1819-1954, at the Massachusetts Historical Society".

7	"Obituary of Rev. Charles Fay in the New York Times, November 7, 1888".

8	"History of Chuttenden County, Vermont edited by W.S. Rann, 1886".