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Orville Wright

Wright Brothers - Aviation Pioneer

Dan Wright

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• • Great-grandfather of Orville Wright — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 8 
  • Father:
  • Benoni Wright 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Smith   
  • Birth Date:
  • 7 Apr 1757 
  • Birth Location:
  • Lebanon, New London, Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • 10 Sep 1832 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Bethel Cemetery, Bethel, Miami, Ohio 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah Freeman
  • Marriage Date:
  • 3 Feb 1785 
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  • Child:

  Dan Wright Jr. (Ahnentafel No:4 )

• Sources for Dan Wright

  • ¹ Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906, Birth record for Dan Wright.
  • ² Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A130713.
  • ³ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 11/20/2012).
  • ⁴ 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.
  • ⁵ 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.
  • ⁶ Kelly, Fred C., The Wright Brothers: A Biography, Mineola, New York: Dover Publications, Inc. (1989), 21.
  • ⁷ National Park Service, "Milton Wright's Family Tree", (accessed 01/28/2014).
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 11.
  • ⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 37.
  • ¹⁰ 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.