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Orville Wright

Wright Brothers - Aviation Pioneer

Milton Wright

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• • Father of Orville Wright — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2 
  • Father:
  • Dan Wright Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Catherine Reeder   
  • Birth Date:
  • 17 Nov 1828 
  • Birth Location:
  • Rush County, Indiana 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 3 Apr 1917 
  • Death Location:
  • Hawthorn Hill, Oakwood, Montgomery, Ohio 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum, Dayton, Montgomery, Ohio 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Susan Catherine Koerner
  • Marriage Date:
  • 24 Nov 1859 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Indiana 
  • Children:
  
  

  Wilbur Wright

  Orville Wright (Ahnentafel No:1 )

  • Notes: 
  • Bishop of the Church of the United Brethen in Christ

• Sources for Milton Wright

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 11/20/2012).
  • ² 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.
  • ³ 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.
  • ⁴ Kelly, Fred C., The Wright Brothers: A Biography, Mineola, New York: Dover Publications, Inc. (1989), 21-23.
  • ⁵ National Park Service, "Milton Wright's Family Tree", (accessed 01/28/2014).
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 37.
  • ⁷ 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.
  • ⁸ Wikipedia, "Milton Wright (bishop)", (accessed 11/20/2012).