Ancestry of
Orville Wright

Wright Brothers - Aviation Pioneer

Orville Wright

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • Milton Wright 
  • Mother:
  • Susan Catherine Koerner   
  • Birth Date:
  • 19 Aug 1871 
  • Birth Location:
  • Dayton, Montgomery, Ohio 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 30 Jan 1948 
  • Death Location:
  • Dayton, Montgomery, Ohio 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum, Dayton, Montgomery, Ohio 
  • Notes: 
  • Co-inventor of the first successful airplane.

• Sources for Orville Wright

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 11/20/2012).
  • ² 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), 192-202.
  • ³ Kelly, Fred C., The Wright Brothers: A Biography, Mineola, New York: Dover Publications, Inc. (1989).
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 11.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 37.
  • ⁶ 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.
  • ⁷ Wikipedia, "Wright brothers", (accessed 11/20/2012).