Wheelwright (disambiguation)

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A wheelwright is a person who builds or repairs wheels.

Wheelwright person who builds or repairs wooden wheels

A wheelwright is a craftsman who builds or repairs wooden wheels. The word is the combination of "wheel" and the archaic word "wright", which comes from the Old English word "wryhta", meaning a woodworker as in Wheelwright, Shipwright and Arkwright This occupational name eventually became the English surname Wheelwright, akin to Arkwright and Wright, the latter pertaining to all woodworkers, or to metal workers being called Smith.

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Wheelwright may also refer to:

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Wheelwright, Kentucky City in Kentucky, United States

Wheelwright is a home rule-class city in Floyd County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 780 at the 2010 census, down from 1,042 in 2000.

Wheelwright, Massachusetts human settlement in Massachusetts, United States of America

Wheelwright is a village in the town of Hardwick, Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States, about 20 miles (32 km) northwest of the city of Worcester, Massachusetts. Named after George W. Wheelwright who owned the village's paper mill around the turn of the 20th century. Mostly residential now there is still a small plastics manufacturing shop on the mill site.

General López Department Department in Santa Fe, Argentina

The General López Department is an administrative subdivision (departamento) of the province of Santa Fe, Argentina. It is located in the south of the province. Its head town is Melincué, and its largest city is Venado Tuerto.

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Wheelwright is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Piast the Wheelwright fictional human

Piast Kołodziej was a semi-legendary figure in medieval Poland, the founder of the Piast dynasty that would rule the future Kingdom of Poland.

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The Worshipful Company of Wheelwrights is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London, England. An organisation of Wheelwrights and Coachmakers petitioned for incorporation in 1630. The petition was granted forty years later, in 1670, when a Royal Charter was granted to the Wheelwrights. The Wheelwrights' Company was granted the status of a Livery Company in 1763. Over the years, wheel making has changed from being made by craftsmen to being made by machines. Thus, the Company is no longer a trade association for wheelwrights. Instead, it functions as a charitable body.

Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian

The Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian is a museum devoted to Native American arts. It is located in Santa Fe, New Mexico and was founded in 1937 by Mary Cabot Wheelwright, who came from Boston, and Hastiin Klah, a Navajo singer and medicine man.

A wainwright is a tradesperson skilled in the making and repairing of wagons.

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John Wheelwright Colonial American clergyman

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William Wheelwright American businessman

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Thomas Leavitt (settler) American settler

Thomas Leavitt (1616–1696) was an English Puritan who was one of the earliest permanent settlers of the Province of New Hampshire. A farmer, Leavitt apparently followed Rev. John Wheelwright to his settlement of Exeter, New Hampshire. Later Leavitt moved on to Hampton. He was seldom involved in town business, and was described by one writer as "a quiet, useful citizen." He was not remarkable, except insofar as those who crossed the Atlantic, swept by storms startling to Englishmen, to settle an unknown continent, peopled by tribes with which they were unfamiliar, were unremarkable.

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William Wentworth (1616–1697) was a follower of John Wheelwright, and an early settler of New Hampshire. Coming from Alford in Lincolnshire, he likely came to New England with Wheelwright in 1636, but no records are found of him in Boston. When Wheelwright was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for his role in the Antinomian Controversy, he established the settlement of Exeter, New Hampshire, and Wentworth followed him there and then to Wells, Maine. After Wheelwright left Wells for Hampton, New Hampshire, Wentworth went to Dover, New Hampshire, and this is where he lived the remainder of his life. He was the proprietor of a sawmill, and held several town offices, but is most noted for being an elder in his Dover church for nearly 40 years. He had 11 children with two wives, and has numerous descendants, including many of great prominence.

Mary Cabot Wheelwright American anthropologist

Mary Cabot Wheelwright was an American anthropologist and museum founder. She established the museum which is now called Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, in 1937 along with Hosteen Klah.