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Frank Lloyd Wright was born in the farming town of Richland Center, Wisconsin, United States, in 1867 and named Frank Lincoln Wright.

His father, William Carey Wright ( 1825 – 1904 ), was a locally admired orator, music teacher, occasional lawyer, and itinerant minister.

William Wright had met and married Anna Lloyd Jones ( 1838 / 39 – 1923 ), 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 expecting her first child, that he would grow up to build beautiful buildings.

She decorated his nursery with engravings of English cathedrals torn from a periodical to encourage the infant's ambition.

The family moved to Weymouth, Massachusetts in 1870 for William to minister a small congregation.