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The Wright Family. Orville and Wilbur Wright were the sons of Milton and Susan Wright. Milton was born on the Indiana frontier in 1828. He served as an educator; a minister; and later, a bishop in the Church of the United Brethren in Christ. Susan Koerner Wright was born near Hillsboro, Virginia in 1831. Wilbur Wright at age 12.
When Reuchlin Wright was born on 17 March 1861, in Fairmount, Fairmount Township, Grant, Indiana, United States, his father, Milton Wright, was 32 and his mother, Susan Catherine Koerner, was 29. He married Lulu B. Billheimer on 27 April 1886, in Montgomery, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters.
1860 April 16, 1867 Wilbur Wright born to Reverend Milton Wright and Susan Catherine Koerner Wright near Millville, Indiana. He is their third child; his older siblings are Reuchlin (b. 1861) and Lorin (b. 1862).
Feb 5, 2018 · Lorin, the second son of Milton and Susan Wright, was born in Fairmont, Indiana, in the home of his grandparents. Named by his parents for a community chosen randomly from a map, Lorin moved with his parents and siblings to Dayton, Ohio, in 1870. As a child, Lorin developed a close relationship with his elder brother Reuchlin.
Dayton. Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum. Created by: Helen L. Smith Hoke Genealogical Research. Added: Aug 31, 2002. Find a Grave Memorial ID: 6738292. Sponsored by William C. Helvey. Source citation. Otis Wright, son of Milton and Susan C. Wright, brother to Orville and Wilbur, was a Twin to Ida Wright.
Dec 20, 2022 · A portrait of Lorin Wright. Image courtesy of Wright State University Libraries. Lorin, another of Milton and Susan’s children, found it difficult to make a living in Dayton and left for Kansas City in 1886. He struggled, briefly returned to Dayton, and then headed west again. He scraped out a living on the Kansas frontier for two years.
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