When Jack Orville Wright was born on 8 May 1916, in Prineville, Crook, Oregon, United States, his father, Francis Fletcher Wright, was 33 and his mother, Flora Lee Frogge, was 29. He married Dora Mae Benson on 6 April 1945, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Election Precinct 18 Terrebonne, Deschutes, Oregon, United States in 1940 and Fossil, Wheeler, Oregon, United States in 1950. He died on 22 September 1967, in Prineville, Crook, Oregon, United States, at the age of 51, and was buried in Prineville, Crook, Oregon, United States.
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U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.
Thousands of soldiers were assigned to the U.S. Army Spruce Production Division to provide wood for airplanes and ships during World War I. Poor working conditions in 1917 caused the men to strike which slowed the logging production in the area. The demands of the strikers were rejected by the lumber companies. As the need was ever-present for lumber during the war, the government stationed soldiers to do the work. Over 230 spruce soldier camps were built and occupied throughout the Pacific Northwest at this time.
The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.
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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