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  William Wright and Mable Huthman Family Homepage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Ancestors and descendants of William Wright of Anstey, Leicestershire, England and Mabel Huthman of Morrison, Jefferson, Colorado.
William Wright was born 06/15/1878 in Anstey, Leicestershire, England to William Wright and Mary Ann Hunt.
William Wright and Mabel Huthman are buried in Roselawn Cemetary in Sulphur, Louisiana.
home.bellsouth.net /p/s/community.dll?ep=16&ext=1&groupid=193391&ck=   (624 words)

  
 Frank Lloyd Wright
The famous American architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, was born as the son of William C. Wright and Anna Lloyd Jones in the United States in the small rural community of Richland Center, Wisconsin in 1867.
Wright himself was so overwhelmed that it took him ten years to recover his confidence and return to more stable existence.
While Wright was designing extravagant metaphors for millionairs trying to escape from the city, he was also trying to build inexpensive houses for the poor, in such a way as they might escape the city too.
www.ds.arch.tue.nl /education/students/MultiMedia/FallingWater/FLW.HTM   (1794 words)

  
 Frank Lloyd Wright
Wright worked for Silsbee for about a year before he left to take a better paying drafting job with Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler, who were working on the design of the Auditorium Theater in Chicago at the time.
Wright referred to Sullivan as his Lieber Meister (beloved master) and was the only architect that Wright would acknowledge had an influence on him.
Wright believed that everyone should have an architect design a house specifically for them no matter what the price of the house was instead of living in a "cookie cutter" house.
www.prairiestyles.com /wright.htm   (1568 words)

  
 William Wright
Wright, W.G., E. Marcus, and T.J. Carew.  Dissociation of monosynaptic and polysynaptic contributions to dishabituation, sensitization, and inhibition in Aplysia.
Wright, W.G.,  E.A.Marcus,  H. Thaker, and T.J. Carew 1988.  A cellular analysis of tail-shock induced inhibition in the siphon withdrawal reflex of Aplysia.
Wright, W.G.  Aspects of the ecology and behavior of the owl limpet, Lottia gigantea.
www.chapman.edu /wilkinson/biosci/faculty/wwright_cv.html   (1009 words)

  
 Wright Ancestors
William Wright is the only one who received a land grant of 160 acres in 1816 from President James Madison.
William must have moved with Zadock to western PA around 1780 or before, but moved to Virginia (it may have been to one of the northern counties of today's West Virginia) a short time after 1782, where he was married and lived for some time.
William lived the rest of his days, in Butler County, and it was there where he applied for the military pension described earlier on.
physics.bgsu.edu /~stoner/gen/wright.htm   (5241 words)

  
 Wright   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
N.Y.C. rank Lloyd Wright was born on June 8, 1867, in Richland Center, Wisconsin, to Anna Lloyd-Jones Wright, a teacher whose large Welsh family of farmers and ministers settled the valley that became Taliesin, and William Russell Cary Wright, a preacher and musician.
Wright picked up on the philosophy of Sullivan and was so loyally devoted to his employer that he soon moved ahead of Alder in importance within the firm.
Wright was associated with the Oak Park Unitarian Universalist congregation when they asked him to design a new church after their wooden church burned during a storm in 1905.
ah.bfn.org /a/archs/wright/bio   (2846 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Obituaries -- William C. Wright, 68; attorney with a passion for aviation
William C. Wright took his aviation hobby to new heights when he restored a 1948 Luscombe aircraft and flew it to 48 states in 48 hours.
Wright and his late wife, Bridgette Herron-Wright, founded a memorial scholarship fund in honor of two of his stepchildren who were killed that year in an auto accident: Laura Ann Herron, 16, and Jacob J. Herron, 13.
Wright, an El Cajon resident, was born in Joliet, Ill. As a standout high school pitcher in Wilmington, Ill., his fastball attracted major league scouts.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/obituaries/20031011-9999_1m11wright.html   (567 words)

  
 Canadian Mining Hall of Fame - William H. Wright   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Wright was born in England, and came to Canada in 1907, after serving in the Boer War.
Sylvanite was sold, however, when Harry Oakes wanted one of Wright's claims for his Lakeshore property; Wright had the foresight to exchange the claim for shares and a vice­presidency.
Wright is reported to have kept a packsack and prospector's kit in the closet of his bedroom in his Barrie mansion until the day he died.
www.mining.ca /halloffame/english/bios/wright-w.html   (569 words)

  
 William Wright, 1707-1776, of Augusta Co
This William Wright was dead in 1755 and therefore could not be the William Wright who made his will in 1775 and bought land in 1748.
William Wright acquired the 413 acres from William Beverley in 1740 prior to Augusta County being organized.
Wright was one of the signers, 14 Aug 1741.
www.hal-pc.org /~wmewrght/wmwright.html   (4823 words)

  
 GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY - WILLIAM W. WRIGHT COLLECTION: COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Wright served with the Pennsylvania Railroad in various capacities until 1854, when he was principal assistant engineer in charge of the Western Division.
Wright then joined the Waynesburg Branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad until the outbreak of the Civil War (1861-1865) during which he served in the Military Railroad Department.
In 1870, Wright was appointed chief engineer of the Shenandoah Valley Railroad in Virginia, and supervised surveys for that railroad.
gulib.lausun.georgetown.edu /dept/speccoll/cl178.htm   (780 words)

  
 WILLIAM H. Wright Packing Plant   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
William H. Wright of American Fork built a produce packing plant in 1946 at 381 West Center in Pleasant Grove.
Wright's produce was shipped to New Jersey, Washington D.C., Canada, and the Midwest states of Nebraska, Missouri, and Iowa.
William H. Wright was the first in Utah to airfreight, express-rush, cherries to Denver in 1946.
www.plgrove.org /Historical/packingplant.htm   (264 words)

  
 The Descendants of William Wright   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
William Wright was a Loyalist refugee who came from Westchester County, New York.
William built a log cabin, thatched with seaweed and chinked with moss and mud.
William was the first shoemaker in the area, but since wooden clogs and sealskin moccasins were worn, business was probably not good, but he lived long enough to see 34 years of change to the Island and have over fifty decendants call him Grandfather.
www.islandregister.com /wright1.html   (326 words)

  
 Wright brothers: Wilbur and Orville Wright   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Bishop Milton Wright and Susan Catharine Wright had four sons, Reuchlin, Lorin, Wilbur, and Orville, and one daughter Katharine.
Although Bishop Wright was a firm disciplinarian, both parents were loving and the family was a close one.
The Wright articles page has links to articles prepared by the brothers describing their invention of the airplane.
www.wam.umd.edu /~stwright/WrBr/Wrights.html   (735 words)

  
 William Wright   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Wright was the manager of Kinchega, a sheep and cattle station on the west bank of the Darling.
Wright was then given the job of returning to Menindie, where Burke had left most of his men, animals and supplies, and bringing them up to reinforce the camp at Cooper's Creek.
Wright received perhaps the severest criticism of any individual in the official inquiry into the Expedition.
www.slv.vic.gov.au /burkeandwills/explorers/wright.html   (162 words)

  
 FRANCES WRIGHT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Like William Maclure and the five children of Robert Owen who resided in New Harmony, Frances Wright, known in her day as Fanny Wright, was born in Scotland.
That same year, Wright urged Congress toward A Plan for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery in the United States Without Danger of Loss to the Citizens of the South, and she purchased 640 acres near Memphis, naming the tract Nashoba.
Among Wright's themes were the liberalizing of divorce laws, birth control, free state-run secular education, the political organization of laborers, equal rights for women, and objectionable ecclesiastical influences in politics.
faculty.evansville.edu /ck6/bstud/wright.html   (442 words)

  
 Donna Speer Ristenbatt Genealogy/Joshua WRIGHT Sr.
Joshua's brother, Thomas Wright, apparently came over sooner on the "Flie Boat Martha" arriving "at the end of summer 1677" with 114 passengers.
Another brother, Samuel Wright, came over also in 1679, as one of his daughters was born at sea on 25 October 1679.
Elizabeth, dau of Samuel Wright of Nottingham, the latter executor and residuary legatee.
www.ristenbatt.com /genealogy/main_jw.htm   (2388 words)

  
 WILLIAM T. WRIGHT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Bill Wright is an attorney and shareholder / partner in the law firm of Jacobsen, Orr, Nelson, Wright & Lindstrom, P.C. in Kearney, Nebraska.
Wright´s law practice includes representation largely of defendants in a wide variety of civil litigation to include personal injury, product liability, civil rights, political subdivision municipal liability and employment law litigation under various Fair Employment Practice Acts.
Wright is a graduate of the University of Nebraska College of Law (1978).
www.jonlaw.com /wright.html   (392 words)

  
 WILLIAM WRIGHT Biography-Massac County, ILTrails   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
A typical example of viral manhood of Southern Illinois is found in William Wright, the widely known Justice and Notary of Metropolis, whose offices are across the street South of the Court House.
Wright served on the Board of Education a number of years, as its sec'y.
William Wright is one of the stable and dependable men of this community and we are pleased that he is represented in this paper.
www.iltrails.org /massac/bios/bios020.html   (388 words)

  
 Active Skim View of: William Hammond Wright
Wright was among the pioneers in the developing field of spectroscopy.
With the quartz spectrograph, Wright discovered in nebulae the continuous spectrum which extends beyond the limit of the Balmer series of hydrogen.
The south polar cap as photographed in longer wavelengths was reduced to a small central white core which appeared to rest on the surface of the planet.
www.nap.edu /nap-cgi/skimit.cgi?isbn=0309025494&chap=376-396   (694 words)

  
 William E. Wright
Wright, a partner, serves as head of the Commercial Litigation practice group.
Wright's practice involves claims against directors and officers, attorneys or certified public accountants.
Wright has served as a speaker on numerous programs dealing with a variety of issues, including attorney liability, accountant liability, ethics, lender liability, construction law and alternative dispute resolution.
www.dkslaw.com /attorneys/wright.html   (748 words)

  
 Handbook of Texas Online: WRIGHT, WILLIAM LEE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Wright participated in the transition of the Texas Rangers from their horseback era in the early 1900s to the modern rangers of the Texas Department of Public Safety
Wright's belief that there should be less political interference and patronage in ranger affairs became one of the axioms of the new order.
Wright rejoined the rangers in 1935, served during the era of the Department of Public Safety, and left the service in 1939.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/WW/fwrds.html   (517 words)

  
 William Janes Wright
WRIGHT, William Janes, mathematician, born in Weybridge, Vermont, 3 August, 1831.
Wright has published "Tracts on Higher Mathematics," including treatises on determinants, trilinear co-ordinates, and invariants (London, 1875-'9).--His wife, Julia McNair, author, born in Oswego, New York, 1 May, 1840, was the daughter of John McNair, a well-known civil engineer, whose father emigrated from Scotland in 1798.
She was educated at private schools and academies, married Dr. Wright in 1859, and has devoted her life mainly to literary work.
www.famousamericans.net /williamjaneswright   (434 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: William Wright
The Catholics had been discouraged by the fall of the archpriest Blackwell, who had taken, and publicly commended, the condemned oath of allegiance (see OATHS, ENGLISH POST-REFORMATION, II); Wright's brother Thomas, an ex-Jesuit and a brilliant scholar, supported him (see bibliography).
William Wright disputed publicly against the oath with great vigour and effect; and the Gages, whom he had instructed, courageously refused to take it.
Wright's fine qualities drew to him many converts.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/15715c.htm   (312 words)

  
 Peace Corps Online | November 12, 2002 - Princeton Packet: Burkina Faso RPCV William Wright opens new African Art ...
Wright, 58, recently relocated to Montgomery Township, bringing with him an extensive trove of sculptures and statues, all hailing from the Dark Continent.
Wright has been working on his house since 1988, when he bought a barn in Griggstown for just $1.
Wright took it apart and moved it to an acre lot lopped off the south side of the vineyard property and commenced re-assembling and restoring the barn, rising at dawn each day to put some work in before commuting to Manhattan.
peacecorpsonline.org /messages/messages/2629/1010675.html   (1142 words)

  
 Wright Family Genealogy
Sir THOMAS WRIGHT, Lord of Kelvestone Hall, Norfolk, England, given as the earliest known member of this line; died in 1509.
William born 8 Dec 1680 Oyster Bay LI NY; died 1759; married Elizabeth Rhodes; daughter of William Rhodes and Esther (unknown).
Zervia married 1736 John Wright; son of William Wright and Elisabeth (unknown).
www.angelfire.com /ny/chickened/wrightoystrbayfamily.html   (852 words)

  
 William Wright ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Frank Lloyd Wright ’s Price Tower was his pioneering experiment in the multi-use skyscraper: a slim, tall, richly detailed structure, originally designed to combine business offices, shops and apartments.
There is a quiet grace in the works of Judith Wright, which are not only sublimely beautiful but also often thought provoking and deeply moving.
Travelling with the exhibition to India, Wright's projections inhale the experience of her contact with different physical and cultural landscapes bringing them back to the body and summoning up the extraordinary effect such experiences have on o...
wwar.com /masters/w/wright-william.html   (869 words)

  
 GAR--Commander-in-Chief William Parkinson Wright
Original Member, Illinois Commandery, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the U.S. William Parkinson Wright was the last Commander-in-Chief to have actually served in the War of the Rebellion, and with him, our series comes to an end.
One of the early members of the Grand Army of the Republic, Captain Wright served as Commander of the Walter Blanchard Post in Napierville, Illinois and of the Abraham Lincoln Post in Chicago.
William Parkinson Wright was elected a Companion of the First Class of MOLLUS through the Illinois Commandery on July 24, 1894.
suvcw.org /garcinc/wpwright.htm   (682 words)

  
 WILLIAM JOE WRIGHT Graveside services
Graveside services for William Joe Wright, 90, of Kilgore, formerly of Dallas, will be at Kilgore Cemetery on Thursday, Oct. 13, 2005 at 2:00 p.m.
He was born Aug. 14, 1915 to William and Verna Wright of Childress.
Wright served in the United States Navy during W.W.II.
www.kilgorenewsherald.com /news/2005/1012/Obits/016.html   (107 words)

  
 MTV.com - Movies - William Wright   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
After accumulating experience at the Pasadena Playhouse, William Wright launched his film career in the late '30s.
Signed to a Columbia contract in 1942, Wright showed up in roles of varying sizes in the studio's crime melodramas and Ann Miller musicals.
William Wright died of cancer at the age of 47.
www.mtv.com /movies/person/112488/bio.jhtml   (140 words)

  
 WRIGHT, WILLIAM ALDIS (1836— ) - Online Information article about WRIGHT, WILLIAM ALDIS (1836— )   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
WRIGHT, WILLIAM ALDIS (1836—) - Online Information article about WRIGHT, WILLIAM ALDIS (1836—)
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encyclopedia.jrank.org /WIL_YAK/WRIGHT_WILLIAM_ALDIS_1836_.html   (272 words)

  
 William Edward Wright   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
William Edward Wright, 87, of Lynchburg, died Monday, January 27, 2003, at Lynchburg Health and Rehabilitation.
He was born at Massie’s Mill, VA, April 13, 1915, the son of the late William Clarence Wright and Lula Sprouse Wright.
He was preceded in death by a brother, Homer K. Wright.
www.bhsbees.com /williamwright.htm   (324 words)

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