Brief Life History of Merlin L
When Merlin L Wright was born about 1900, in Beloit, Rock, Wisconsin, United States, his father, Charles Raymond Wright, was 25 and his mother, Jennie Eliza Rutledge, was 19. He married Estella Hamlett on 13 December 1919, in Winnebago, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died on 17 February 1957, in San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, United States, at the age of 58, and was buried in San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, United States.
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- Merlyn Wright, "United States Census, 1930"
- Merrill Lister Wright, "Wisconsin Births and Christenings, 1826-1926"
- Merlin Wright, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
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World Events (8)
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
1901 · Spindletop Oilfield Discovered
Spindletop, located south of Beaumont, becomes the first major oil well to be discovered in Texas. Other fields were discovered in shortly after, which ultimately led to the highly impactful "oil boom".
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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