This encouragement led Orville to discover an early interest in business, and he started his own print shop while he was still in high school. The boys also had one younger sister, Katharine Wright, who lived with them, and two older siblings, Reuchlin and Lorin, who lived elsewhere.īishop Wright was eager to encourage his boys' education, but he did let them skip school if they wanted to take advantage of the books at home instead. Their mother was Susan Koerner Wright, who would later die of tuberculosis when the boys were in their early twenties. Their father, Bishop Milton Wright, encouraged his children to be open-minded and hard-working, and made sure their modest home was well stocked with books. The brothers had a modest upbringing in Dayton, Ohio, which was the state’s fifth-largest city at the time. But he was also more cheerful and more adept at the business side of things. Orville, on the other hand, was a gentle soul who was more sensitive to criticism than Wilbur.
Wilbur was the more scholarly of the two, and with his nerves of steel, he was clearly the unspoken leader. Not only did they eat meals together and keep a joint bank account, they even had similar handwriting.īut they did have their own unique personalities.
The two were virtually inseparable throughout their lives. Wilbur Wright was the older of the two brothers, born April 16, 1867, four years before Orville, born August 19, 1871. You probably know that the Wright brothers invented the airplane – but do you know how they got to the remarkable moment when their aircraft took its first flight? Let’s go back to where it all started.
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