Dr. James Homer Wright (1869-1928) was an early and influential American pathologist, who for many years was chief of pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital.
In 1915 he joined with Dr. Richard C. Cabot to begin publication of the Case Records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. These began regular publication as the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal which later became the New England Journal of Medicine.
In 1924 Wright, along with Dr. Frank B. Mallory, published Pathological Technique: a Practical Manual for the Pathological Laboratory. The book saw eight editions and for many years was the standard textbook in the field.
Wright was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and was Chief of Pathology from 1896 to 1926.
Wright and John A. Wright received $40 from W.O.H.P (William Oliver Hazard Perry) Cowden as part of the fifth distribution of the estate of R.C. Cowden.
In 1912 Lucy Wright and her children James, Lillie and Bert with his wife Della Mae Swan (Schwaberow) moved to Montana and homesteaded on land west of Big Sandy.
James Sheridan was born 6 November 1873 in Missouri and died 4 July 1948 in Fort Benton, Chouteau County, Montana.
JamesHomerWright, a native of Pittsburgh, who become the first full-time pathologist of the hospital in 1896, that pathology came upon the hospital stage as a major discipline and service.
A major development midway through Dr. Wright’s term as Chief of Pathology was the initiation of the clinicopathological conferences that became famous as “Case Records of the Massachusetts General Hospital”.
Dr. Wright was succeeded as Chief of Pathology by Dr. Tracy B. Mallory (a son of Dr. Frank B. Mallory) in 1926.
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