When Marjorie Maebelle Wright was born on 4 December 1913, in Charter Oak, Crawford, Iowa, United States, her father, Bertram Legrand Wright, was 33 and her mother, Lillian Merle Jones, was 34. She married Calvin Ross Messinger in 1937, in Armour, Douglas, South Dakota, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Douglas, South Dakota, United States in 1935 and United States in 1949. She died on 8 June 1965, in Spokane, Spokane, Washington, United States, at the age of 51, and was buried in Lewiston, Nez Perce, Idaho, United States.
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Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
The Boeing Aircraft was named and created by William Boeing. The first two planes were Bluebill and Mallard and the first flight was July 15, 1916. Boeing aircrafts made their debut during WWI.
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
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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