Samuel Hart Wright (c. 1825–1905) was a farmer, astronomer, botanist, teacher, and almanac editor. 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 ''Farmers' Almanac'' is an annual American periodical that has been in continuous publication since 1818. Published by Geiger of Lewiston, Maine, the ''Farmers' Almanac'' provides long-range weather predictions for both the U.S. and Canada. Th ...

''. Wright was from

Peekskill, New York Peekskill is a city in northwestern Westchester County, New York, United States, north of New York City. Established as a village in 1816, it was incorporated as a city in 1940. It lies on a bay along the east side of the Hudson River, across fr ...

and later lived in

Jerusalem, New York Jerusalem is a town in Yates County, New York. The population was 4,405 at the 2020 census. The town is named after the city of Jerusalem. The Town of Jerusalem is on the south border of the county and is southwest of Geneva, New York. Hist ...

. He taught at Dundee Academy. He helped produce ''The Illustrated Family Christian Almanac for the United States'' in 1867. He corresponded with

John Torrey John Torrey (August 15, 1796 – March 10, 1873) was an American botany, botanist, chemist, and physician. Throughout much of his career, he was a teacher of chemistry, often at multiple universities, while he also pursued botanical work, focus ...

in 1870. Wright published a regular column including a mathematics problem.

Malacologist Malacology, from Ancient Greek μαλακός (''malakós''), meaning "soft", and λόγος (''lógos''), meaning "study", is the branch of invertebrate zoology that deals with the study of the Mollusca (molluscs or mollusks), the second-largest ...

Berlin Hart Wright (1851–1940) was his son. Charles Willison Johnson wrote about him in 1906 in ''

The Nautilus ''Nautilus'' is the fictional submarine belonging to Captain Nemo featured in Jules Verne's novels ''Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas'' (1870) and '' The Mysterious Island'' (1875). Description ''Nautilus'' is described by Verne as ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wright, Samuel Hart 1820s births 1905 deaths Almanac compilers Scientists from New York (state) People from Jerusalem, New York People from Peekskill, New York 19th-century American botanists 19th-century American astronomers Farmers from New York (state)