When George Washington Wright was born on 25 January 1852, in Bath, Virginia, United States, his father, Ezekiel Bennett Wright, was 23 and his mother, Sally, was 27. He married Emily Annie Woodzelle on 13 April 1876, in Bath, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 7 daughters. He lived in Victoria Township, Custer, Nebraska, United States in 1885. He died on 17 January 1917, in Boise, Ada, Idaho, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Morris Hill Cemetery, Boise, Ada, Idaho, United States.
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On May 30, 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide whether or not they wanted to allow slavery within their borders. This Act repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820.
The Battle of Manassas is also referred to as the First Battle of Bull Run. 35,000 Union troops were headed towards Washington D.C. after 20,000 Confederate forces. The McDowell's Union troops fought with General Beauregard's Confederate troops along a little river called Bull Run.
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
English and Scottish: occupational name for a craftsman or maker of machinery, mostly in wood, of any of a wide range of kinds, from Middle English and Older Scots wriht, wright, wricht, writh, write (Old English wyrhta, wryhta) ‘craftsman’, especially ‘carpenter, joiner’. The term is found in various combinations (for example, Cartwright and Wainwright ), but when used in isolation it often referred to a builder of windmills or watermills. This surname is also very common among African Americans.
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