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Deacon Samuel Wright of Wrightsbridge, Essex County (b. 1606, d. 1665) married Margaret Stratton (b. circa 1604, d. 1681) in 1625. While still in England, they had four children – Samuel Jr., Margaret, Hester (or Esther), and Lydia. About 1636, they sailed to America where they had four more – James, Judah, Mary and Helped.
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Middle John died in Wrightsbridge in 1558 when he was just...
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Benoni Wright and Elizabeth (Eliza Betsy) Smith tied the...
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Dan Wright Jr., 1790 to 1861. Dan Wright Jr. was born in...
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We can trace Wilbur’s and Orville’s ancestry back to just...
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Apr 11, 2024 · Katharine Wright's Role as Archivist. High-profile events aside, much of Katharine’s work took place out of the public eye. While Wilbur and Orville set and broke flight records, she helped ...
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Katharine Wright was the youngest of five and the only of her siblings to graduate from college. After finishing Oberlin, she took a job teaching Latin at Steele High School, where "she would flunk many of Dayton's future leaders." Brilliant, sociable, and vivacious, she provided an unshakable foundation of support for her brothers in all their end...
For Wilbur and Orville, achieving the impossible and actually building a working airplane wasn't enough. The Wrights faced the challenge of showing people that their airplane actually existed. People simply didn't believe it. Long after the Wright Flyer was zipping through the skies of Ohio, Scientific American ran a skeptical and dismissive piece ...
Eventually, the furor in Paris became too much, and Wilbur beseeched his sister to come to Europe and act as his "social manager." She agreed, bringing Orville with her. In addition to caring for the greatly weakened brother while in Europe, she took public pressure off of Wilbur by wining and dining the world's aristocracy, who simply could not ge...
Wilbur Wright. (April 16, 1867 – May 30, 1912) Orville Wright. (August 19, 1871 – January 30, 1948) The Wright Brothers, Wilbur and Orville, were the two youngest boys of Milton and Catherine Wright’s seven children. The family moved around often during the boys’ childhood due to Milton’s profession as a bishop in the Church of the ...
May 30, 2012 · One hundred years ago, at the end of May 1912, Wilbur Wright passed away. A local group of aviators and historians thought that instead of recalling his death, it would be a good idea to celebrate his life. To take a look at this enigmatic man and go beyond the stern image of Wilbur Wright’s portrays its made a century ago.
Wright Brothers. Orville and Wilbur Wright were the sons of Milton and Susan Wright. Milton rose from circuit preacher to bishop of the Church of the United Brethren of Christ. Susan Wright attended Hartesville College in Indiana where she studied literature and science and was the top mathematician in her class.
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Wilbur Wright is the oldest of the two brothers, born 16 April 1867, near Millvale, Indiana. Orville Wright followed on 19 August 1871 in Dayton, Ohio. There were three other siblings in the family, and Wilbur was born the third to parents Milton and Susan Catharine Koerner Wright. Their parents married in 1859 while she was a student and he ...
