Wright was the brother of classical archaeologist Lucy Wright Mitchell, the husband of author Mary Tappan Wright and the father of legal scholar and utopian novelist Austin Tappan Wright and geographer John Kirtland Wright.
Wright was the brother of classical archaeologist Lucy Myers Wright Mitchell. He married the author Mary Tappan Wright, and was the father of legal scholar and utopian author Austin Tappan Wright, and the geographer John Kirtland Wright.