When James Wright was born on 15 October 1883, in Park City, Summit, Utah, United States, his father, William Shields Wright, was 48 and his mother, Jennet Robertson, was 31. He died on 11 May 1886, at the age of 2, and was buried in Midway City Cemetery, Midway, Wasatch, Utah, United States.
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The largest union group in the United States during the first half of the 20th century. It still exists today but merged with The Congress of Industrial Organization.
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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