This following URL is on a server at the U. of Rochester

http://www.history.rochester.edu/canal/bib/whitford/1906/

It's got the majority of Noble Whitford's 1906 history of the NY canals.

For information of Wright, see chapters 1, 2 and 24 in Volume I and the
chapter on the Biographies of Engineers in Volume II.

Bill Carr
Ballston Lake, NY