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Wright Brothers Bishop Milton Wright and Susan Catharine Wright had four sons, Reuchlin, Lorin, Wilbur, and Orville, and one daughter Katharine. Little did Susan Wright know that she had given birth to one of the world's most famous inventive partnerships. Wilbur was born on April 16, 1867, near Millville, Indiana. Orville was born 4 years later on August 19, 1871, in the families newly built home at 7 Hawthorn Street in Dayton, Ohio. A minister in the Church of the United …

…sufficiently well controlled and stable enough to allow Wilbur to make a flight of 20 miles in the United States. During the next few years the brothers and their Wright Company continued building airplanes, but their competitors gained ground. In 1912 Wilbur died in Dayton, Ohio, of typhoid fever. But the legacy of Wilbur and his brother will go on forever as being known as the first men ever to fly in a heavier-then-air machine. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**