When Bessie Mae Wright was born on 2 September 1862, in Ingham Township, Ingham, Michigan, United States, her father, Solomon Williams Wright, was 45 and her mother, Flora Lorinda Bartholomew, was 33. She married Stanley Partridge on 19 June 1899, in Lansing, New Hope, Bucks, Pennsylvania, United States. She lived in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1920 and San Diego, San Diego, California, United States for about 10 years. She died on 3 March 1949, in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
The first transcontinental railroad reached San Francisco in 1869. The Western Pacific Railroad Company built the track from Oakland to Sacramento. The Central Pacific Railroad Company of California built the section from Sacramento to Promontory Summit Utah. The railroad linked isolated California to the rest of the country which had far-reaching effects on the social and economical development of the state.
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
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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