When Arthur Wright Riley was born on 1 October 1901, in Millcreek, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, Francis Alfred Riley, was 32 and his mother, Harriet Josephine Wright, was 28. He married Violet Augusta Wellman on 3 June 1922, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Election Precinct 4, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1920. He died on 2 January 1954, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 52, and was buried in Magna, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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A law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.
Natural Bridges National Monument was designated a National Monument in 1908 by President Theodore Roosevelt. It is Utah’s first National Monument but didn’t get many visitors until after the uranium boom of the 1950s. Today the Monument and its park became the first International Dark Sky Park certified by the International Dark-Sky Association.
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.
English (Lancashire and Yorkshire): habitational name chiefly from High Ryley in Accrington (Lancashire) and Riley in Kirkburton, which was in the manor of Wakefield (Yorkshire). In some cases the name may derive from Riley Farm in Eyam (Derbyshire), Royley in Royton (Lancashire), or Rylah in Scarcliffe (Derbyshire). The placenames all come from Old English rȳge ‘rye’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
Irish: from Ó Raghailligh ‘descendant of Raghailleach’, Old Irish Roghallach. This is the name of a chieftain family in Cavan, related to the O'Rourkes. In Anglicized form it has also been confused with Ó Raithile found in Munster, usually Anglicized as O'Rahilly or Rahilly . See O'Reilly .
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