Frank Lloyd Wright: A Brief Biography

Frank Lloyd Wright was born in Frankling Wright in the farming town of Richland Center , Wisconsin, United States, in 1867. His father, William Carey Wright, was an orator, music teacher, occasional lawyer, and itinerant minister. William Wright met and married Anna Lloyd Jones, a county school teacher, the previous year when he was employed as the superintendent of schools for Richland County .Originally from Massachusetts , William Wright had been a Baptist minister, but he later joined his wife's family in the Unitarian faith. Anna was a member of the large, prosperous and well-known Lloyd Jones family of Unitarians, who had emigrated from Wales to Spring Green, Wisconsin. One of Anna's brothers was Jenkin Lloyd Jones , who would become an important figure in the spread of the Unitarian faith in the Western United States. Both of Wright's parents were strong-willed individuals with idiosyncratic interests that they passed on to him. According to his biography, his mother declared when she was …show more content…
During this time, Edwin Cheney granted Mamah a divorce, though Kitty still refused to grant one to her husband. After Wright returned to the United States in October 1910, I persuaded his mother to buy land for him in Spring Green , Wisconsin. The land, bought on April 10, 1911, was adjacent to land held by his mother's family, the Lloyd-Joneses. Wright began to build himself a new home, which he called Taliesin , by May 1911. The recurring theme of Taliesin also came from his mother's side: Taliesin in Welsh mythology was a poet, magician, and priest. The family motto was Y Gwir yn Erbyn y Byd which means "The Truth Against the World"; It was created by Iolo Morgannwg who was also called Taliesin, and the motto is still used today as the cry of the druids and chief bard of the Eisteddfod in