When Lucy Amelia Pettit Wright was born on 23 June 1901, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, her father, Edwin Wright, was 29 and her mother, Katie Amelia Pettit, was 29. She married John Alden Bowers on 24 September 1926, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Forest Dale, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1910 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1920. She died on 16 December 1977, in Bethesda, Montgomery, Maryland, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, 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.
Utah is home to one of the oldest coasters in the world that is still operational. The Roller Coaster, at Lagoon Amusement park, is listed number 5.
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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