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Milton Wright (November 17, 1828 – April 3, 1917) was the father of aviation pioneers Wilbur and Orville Wright, and a bishop of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ.
Bishop Milton Wright formed his own Constitutional Committee from conservatives and the group held annual meetings as they prepared for the showdown that was coming in 1889. He also started yet another newspaper to champion the conservative cause, the Christian Conservator. His wife Susan, meanwhile, continued to slowly succumb to tuberculosis.
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November 17th, 1828 – April 3rd, 1917. Milton, a bishop in the Church of the United Brethren in Christ, was born in Rush County, Indiana, to farmers Dan Wright, Jr., and Catharine Reeder. He was their fifth child (of an eventual seven) and fourth son.
Place of Burial: Dayton, Ohio. Cemetery Name: Woodland Cemetery & Arboretum. Milton, a bishop in the Church of the United Brethren in Christ, was born in Rush County, Indiana, to farmers Dan Wright, Jr., and Catharine Reeder. He was their fifth child (of an eventual seven) and fourth son.
Bishop Milton Wright, with his two famous sons. The Church Divides. By 1889, the United Brethren church had grown to over 200,000 members. We had six bishops, plus a full-blown denominational bureaucracy. But trouble was brewing. The controversy centered around the desire to make three changes in the Constitution.
Telegram, Orville Wright to Bishop Milton Wright announcing the first successful powered flight, 17 December [1903]. Created / Published. 17 December 1903. Headings. - Inventors. - Inventions. - Aeronautics. - Airplanes. - Kitty Hawk (N.C.) - North Carolina. - Telegrams. - Wright, Orville (1871-1948) - Manuscripts. Genre. Manuscripts. Notes.
Milton Wright, a bishop in the Church of the United Brethren in Christ, is probably most famous as the father to aviation pioneers, Wilbur and Orville Wright. Though typically referred to as Bishop Milton Wright due to his devotion and involvement in the church, Wright was also a keen genealogist and a committed diarist.
