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Wilbur Wright

Wright Brothers - Aviation Pioneer

Dan Wright Jr.

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• • Grandfather of Wilbur Wright — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 4 
  • Father:
  • Dan Wright 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Freeman   
  • Birth Date:
  • 3 Sep 1790 
  • Birth Location:
  • Thetford, Orange, Vermont 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 6 Oct 1861 
  • Death Location:
  • Orange, Fayette, Indiana 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Wright Cemetery, Orange, Fayette, Indiana 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Catherine Reeder
  • Marriage Date:
  • 12 Feb 1818 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Centerville, Montgomery, Ohio 
  • Children:
  
  

  Sarah Wright

  Milton Wright (Ahnentafel No:2 )

• Sources for Dan Wright Jr.

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A130713 and #A117460.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 11/20/2012).
  • ³ Baldwin, Edgar M., The Making of a Township: Being an Account of the Early Settlement and Subsequent Development of Fairmount . . ., Fairmount, Indiana: Edgar Baldwin Printing Company (1917), 226.
  • ⁴ Drury, Rev. Augustus Waldo, History of the City of Dayton and Montgomery County Ohio, Vol. 1, Chicago-Dayton: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co. (1909), 195.
  • ⁵ Kelly, Fred C., The Wright Brothers: A Biography, Mineola, New York: Dover Publications, Inc. (1989), 21-22.
  • ⁶ National Park Service, "Milton Wright's Family Tree", (accessed 01/28/2014).
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 37.
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 386.
  • ⁹ Wikipedia, "Milton Wright (bishop)", (accessed 11/20/2012).