DID YOU KNOW?
A Biography of
the Wright Brothers
Submitted by Michael Joseph Lynch
Otis, and Ida, were born and died in 1870. Orville arrived a year later, followed by sister Katharine.
The family then moved to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in 1878; then to a farm near Richmond, Indiana, in 1881; and back to Dayton in 1884. Wilbur and Orville were the only members of the Wright family who did not attend college or marry. During this time Wilber was caring for his mother, who died of tuberculosis in 1889.
Following their mother’s death, Orville persuaded Wilbur to join him in establishing a print shop. In addition to normal printing services, they edited and published two short-lived local newspapers. They developed a local reputation for the quality of the presses that they designed, built, and sold to other printers.
In 1892, the brothers opened a bicycle sales and repair shop, and they began to
This article is about the Wright brothers who are from Dayton, Ohio, which is not far from where I currently live, and I visited years ago at different FREE museums. Also, I lived in the Carolinas for four years and I was able to visit the Outer Banks at Kitty Hawk in 2007 where they made their first flight.
Anyway, the Wright brothers were American brothers, inventors, and aviation pioneers who achieved the first powered, sustained, and controlled airplane flight in 1903. Wilber Wright was born April 16, 1867, in Indiana, and his younger brother Orville Wright was born August 19, 1871, in Dayton.
Wilbur and Orville were the sons of Milton Wright, an ordained minister, and Susan Catherine Koerner-Wright, whom Milton had met while he was training for the ministry. Two boys, Reuchlin and Lorin were born to the couple before Wilbur was born, then a pair of twins,