When Hugh Parker Wright was born on 5 May 1900, in Macon, Missouri, United States, his father, Robert Owens Wright, was 23 and his mother, Daisy Dean Shannon, was 20. He had at least 2 sons and 1 daughter with Mabel N. Broyles. He lived in Morrow Township, Macon, Missouri, United States in 1920 and South Sugar Creek Township, Randolph, Missouri, United States in 1930. He died on 24 June 1949, in Moberly, Randolph, Missouri, United States, at the age of 49, and was buried in Moberly, Randolph, Missouri, United States.
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President William McKinley was shot at the Temple of Music, in the Pan-American Exposition, while shaking hands with the public. Leon Czolgosz shot him twice in the abdomen because he thought it was his duty to do so. McKinley died after eight days of watch and care. He was the third American president to be assassinated. After his death, Congress passed legislation to officially make the Secret Service and gave them responsibility for protecting the President at all times.
After the Assassination of William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt was sworn in as the Twenty-sixth President of the United States. During his first term he didn't have a Vice President but for his second term Charles W. Fairbanks filled the position.
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 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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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