Brief Life History of Bryan Lyon
When Bryan Lyon Wright was born on 27 August 1896, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, his father, Joseph Edward Wright, was 29 and his mother, Katherine Goddard Lyon, was 26. He married Rula Eleanor Ward on 16 January 1922, in Weber, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He immigrated to Seattle, King, Washington, United States in 1920 and lived in Intermountain Election Precinct, Ada, Idaho, United States in 1940 and Seattle, King, Washington, United States in 1950. He died on 10 June 1970, in Brier, Snohomish, Washington, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Abbey View Memorial Park, Brier, Snohomish, Washington, United States.
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- Bryan L Wright, "United States 1950 Census"
- Bryan L Wright, "Utah, Weber County Marriages, 1887-1939"
- Bryan Lyon Wright, "Utah, World War I County Draft Board Registers, Name Index, 1917-1918"
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1897 · The Amalgamated Sugar Company
The Amalgamated Sugar Company was founded in Logan and later moved to Boise. The company was formed by the combination of two other sugar companies, the Ogden Sugar Company and the Logan Sugar Company. During 1902, the company reported processing over 10,500 tons of sugar from 97,000 tons of sugar beets.
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
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.
Name Meaning
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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