Thomas Temple Wright was born at Locust Grove, Caroline County, Virginia, May 21, 1883. He was tutored at home, entered Richmond College in 1900, received the B.A. in 1904, and was graduated from the Engineering College at Cornell University, in 1907. Wright roomed with Jenkens at the "Cottage." His intimate friends knew him as "Those," after the abbreviated form of his name. The fifth member of the Fraternity, he was one of the two founders who returned to college in September, 1902, and as treasurer of the group, signed the corporate charter secured from the Commonwealth of Virginia on October 22, 1902. Wright started his professional career as a United States surveyor with the Mississippi River Commission in Vicksburg, Mississippi. He later became a railroad civil engineer, first with the Canadian Pacific Railroad in Ottawa, Canada, then with the Canadian Northern Railroad on construction in Ontario, and finally with the Baltimore and Ohio. In 1917, "Those," on leave from the B & O, was construction engineer for the United States Army Camp Taylor at Louisville, Kentucky. The following year, he became head of the Warsaw and Fredericksburg offices of the Henrico Lumber Company, making his home in Warsaw, Virginia. In 1933, he and his brothers formed Wright Brothers, Inc., with offices in Richmond, West Point, Tappahannock, and Philadelphia. He continued to be active with this firm for many years. He died on February 15, 1958.

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