When Ernest Whitney Wright was born on 27 December 1885, in Coalville, Summit, Utah, United States, his father, William James Wright, was 39 and his mother, Rose Carr Eaton, was 32. He married Millie Robinson on 4 April 1907, in Coalville, Summit, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in United States in 1949 and World for about 5 years. He died on 28 March 1957, in Coalville, Summit, Utah, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Coalville Cemetery, Coalville, Summit, Utah, United States.
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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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