Boardman Wright was born in New York City on July 24, 1867, at 113 East 23rd Street, with Dr. Alfred Underhill and Dr. J. E. Taylor of Bellevue Hospital in attendance. He was the first child of George William Wright and Cornelia Elizabeth Schroeder. As a child he was raised in both New York City and New Milford, Conn., and received his preliminary education through tutors at home. His formal education was received at Saint Pauls Academy, Concord, New Hampshire, from 1881-1885. There he maintained high grades, standing 1st of 28 in his class. After graduating from Saint Pauls Academy in 1885 he was accepted to and entered Trinity College, Hartford, Conn. Before graduating he was forced to leave due to an infection of tuberculosis of the lungs. To relieve him of the infection, his mother and he traveled to Colorado Springs and the southwest to take advantage of the dry climate. When they returned he entered the University of the State of New York, from which he received a degree of Law in 1894. He was admitted to the Bar of the County and State of New York the same year and immediately went into practice with offices at 146 Broadway, New York. In 1899 he moved his practice to 56 Pine Street in N.Y.C., and in 1900 removed his practice again to 280 Broadway where in 1902 he was joined by Theodore Sutro to form the firm of Sutro and Wright.
On May 1st, 1906 Boardman Wright married Isabel Stewart Cable of Northampton, Mass. She was born in New Orleans, La. on August 2, 1883. Isabel Cable was the daughter of the Southern novelist, George W. Cable and his wife Louise Burling Stewart. She was a graduate of Smith College of Northampton, Mass. After they were married they settled in Montclair, New Jersey at 12 Melrose Place. Here their three children were born; Isabel Cable, 10/27/1908, Boardman Jr., 4/24/1911 and George Cable, 5/19/1912. They later in 1916 moved to 56 Warren Place in Montclair where they remained until the late 1920's when after the crash of the stock market and a rocky marriage they separated and were finally divorced in 1950.
During the early 1930's Boardman suffered a stroke and made the decision to close the law practice and retire to his boyhood home of New Milford where his brother,
Dr. George Herman Wright still resided. Later he lived in New Preston just six miles north of New Milford and was known to walk the six miles back and forth from time to time. On December 17, 1950 he passed away at home in New Preston and is buried in Center Cemetery, New Milford.
Boardman Wright was a member of the Society of Medical Jurisprudence and the New York Bar Association. He was also a member of the New York Alumni Association of the Alpha Chi Chapter of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, and the Delta Kappa Epsilon Association of New York City.