When Ralph William Wright was born on 9 March 1877, in Americus, Lyon, Kansas, United States, his father, John Charles Fremont Wright, was 24 and his mother, Elizabeth Jane "Libbie" Curtis, was 25. He married Grace Blanch Lineback on 25 July 1899, in Lyon, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in El Monte, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1930 and El Monte Judicial Township, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1940. He died on 14 March 1959, in Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Rose Hills Memorial Park, Whittier, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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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