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  1. Apr 2, 2014 · Wilbur Wright was born on April 16, 1867, near Millville, Indiana, the middle child in a family of five children. His father, Milton Wright, was a bishop in the Church of the United...

  2. 1922 Movement started by State of Indiana to purchase the 5.6 acre farm where Wilbur Wright was born. 1923 Orville, Katherine, Lorin and Ivonette Wright visited the Wilbur Wright Birthplace on April 15. 1923 William & Lula Smeltser lived in Birthhouse and kept visitor records

  3. Born Aug. 19, 1871 - Died Jan. 30, 1948. Orville and Wilbur Wright, American inventors and aviation pioneers, achieved the first powered, sustained, and controlled flight of an airplane. The Wright brothers are considered inseparable in their aeronautical work.

  4. Orville Wright was one of the seven children born to Milton Wright and Susan Catherine Koener in Dayton, Ohio. While his father belonged to English and Dutch ancestry, his mother had a German and Swiss lineage. As a child, young Orville was mischievous so much so that he was once expelled from elementary school due to the same.

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  5. Aug 19, 2016 · Today in 1871, aviator and inventor Orville Wright was born to Milton and Susan Catherine Koerner Wright. Orville was the sixth of seven children born to the Wrights. At an early age he was intrigued by mechanical things. One of his first interests was printing. As a teenager, Orville began a printing business with his boyhood friend, Ed Sines.

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  7. Orville Wright. Wright brothers, were American inventors and aviation pioneers who achieved the first powered, sustained, and controlled airplane flight (1903). Wilbur Wright (April 16, 1867, near Millville, Indiana, U.S.—May 30, 1912, Dayton, Ohio) and his brother Orville Wright (August 19, 1871, Dayton—January 30, 1948, Dayton) also built ...

  8. Orville Wright, working with his brother Wilbur, made the first heavier-than-air, powered, controlled flight by man, leading the world into the aviation age. Family Life. Orville was born to Milton and Susan Wright in Dayton, Ohio on August 19, 1871. Orville was the sixth child of seven, but two of his older siblings did not survive infancy.

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