Bishop Milton Wright

• General Notes
  • [Wright family information provided  by Dr. Gary Bradshaw's website:
    www.wam.umd.edu/~stwright/WrBr/Wrights.html (webmaster
    Steve Wright)]
    
    Bishop Milton Wright and Susan Catharine Wright had four sons, Reuchlin, Lorin, Wilbur, and Orville, and one daughter Katharine. Wilbur, their third son, was born on a small farm near Millville, Indiana April 16, 1867, while Orville (1871-1948) and later Katharine were born at 7 Hawthorn Street in Dayton. Bishop Wright moved frequently from job to job, so the Wrights shifted houses frequently, though the house on 7 Hawthorn Street remained long in the family's possession.
    
    The Wright household was a stimulating place for the children. Orville wrote of his childhood: "We were lucky enough to grow up in an environment where there was always much encouragement to children to pursue intellectual interests; to investigate whatever aroused curiosity." The house had two libraries: Books on theology were kept in the bishop's study, while the downstairs library had a large and diverse collection. Although Bishop Wright was a firm disciplinarian, both parents were loving and the family was a close one.
    
    The family moved from Richmond, Indiana back to Dayton in June of 1884, the month Wilbur was to have graduated from high school. Wilbur left Richmond without receiving his diploma, and returned to Central High School the next year for further studies in Greek and trigonometry.
    
    Probably during the winter of 1885-1886, Wilbur was hit with in the face with a bat while playing an ice-skating game. The injury at first did not seem serious. In the Bishop's words, "In his nineteenth year when playing a game on skates at an artificial lake at the Soldier's Home near Dayton, Ohio, a bat accidentally flew out of the hand of a young man... and struck Wilbur, knocking him down, but not injuring him much. A few weeks later, he began to be affected with nervous palpitations of the heart which precluded the realization of the former idea of his parents, of giving him a course in Yale College." For the next four years, Wilbur remained homebound, suffering perhaps as much from depression as from his vaguely-defined heart disorder. During this period, Wilbur cared for his mother Susan, who was dying from tuberculosis.
    
    During the years 1900, 1901, 1902, and 1903, the two brothers developed the first effective airplane.
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    [Wright  ancestors and the following references provided  by John
    Camp's website: New Netherland Notables]
    
       1.  Lemaster, Howard Marshall, Gano Family U.S.A., 1970.
            Privately Published, 1970.  189
       2.  Ibid., p. 188.
       3.  Ibid., p. 166-167.
       4.  Ibid., p. 9.
       5.  Ibid., p. 6-7.
       6.  Andrews, Alfred Stokes,
            The Andrews Clapp Stokes Wright Van Cleve Genealogies.
             Privately published, 1985.  450.
       7.  Ibid., p. 424-425.
       8.  Ibid., p. 395.
       9.  Ibid., p. 397.
      10.  Ledley, Wilson V., C.G., The Van Cleef Family.
             New Orleans:  Polyanthos, Inc., 1976.  184.
      11.  Ibid., p. 179-180.
      12.  Ibid., p. 39-40.
      13.  Ibid., p. 17-18.
      14.  Ibid., p. 5-7.
      15.  Riker, David M., Genealogical and Biographical Directory to Persons
           in New Netherland from 1613 to 1674.  CD-ROM. Cambridge: The
           Learning Company, 1999.  1515.
      16.  McCracken, George, Ph.D., F.A.S.G., "Catalyntje Trico Rapalje,"
             The American Genealogist, 35 (1959):  193-202.
      17.  Aitken, William Benford, Distinguished Families in America
             Descended from Wilhelmus Beekman and Jan Thomasse Van Dyke.
             New York:  The Knickerbocker Press, 1912.  185.
      18.  Ibid., p. 174-175.
      19.  Cocheu, Lincoln C. "The Van Kouwenhoven-Conover Family."
             The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 70 (1939):
               230-225, 353-356; 71 (1940):  69-74, 157-162, 273-276, 365-367;
               81 (1950):  123-125, 172-178, 225-230; 82 (1951):  34-42, 89-97,
               175-183, 211-236; 83 (1952):  86-91, 147-152.
      20.  Hoffman, William J., "An Armory of American Families of Dutch
             Descent - Van Ness - Van den Burchgraeff,"
             The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record,
              72 (1941):  148-155.
      21.  In Andrews, this couple is called John Benham and Catherine
             Van Dyke.  It is far from certain (in my mind) that this is the same
              couple as Jan Benham and Geatje Van Dyke.  Geatje would have
              been about 44 years old when she gave birth to their supposed
              son Peter Benham.
      22.  Riker, op. cit., p. 1025.
      23.  Riker, op. cit., p. 191.
      24.  Riker, op. cit., p. 1352.
      25.  Riker states that she is either (name unknown) or Elizabeth,
             possibly the daughter of Gerrit Gerritszen (Van Wagoner).
             Unsourced information on  the World Wide Web claims that she is
             Mary Stillwell, and that she may possibly be the daughter of Richard
             Stillwell (son of Nicholas Stillwell and Ann (__)) and Mary Holmes.
      26.  McCracken, George, Ph.D., F.A.S.G., "Catalyntje Trico Rapalje,"
             The American Genealogist, 35 (1959):  193-202.
      27.  Koenig, Dorothy A., and Pim Nieuwenhuis, "Further Information
             about Cataline Trico," New Netherland Connections, 1 (1996):
             89-93.

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