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 | Milton Wright, father of aviators Wilbur and Orville Wright, was a bishop in the United Brethren Church. |
| Susan Koerner Wright (1831-1889), mother of aviators Wilbur and Orville Wright, was born in Virginia in 1831. |
| Reuchlin Wright, the eldest brother of aviators Wilbur and Orville Wright, was born on the family's farm in Grant County, Indiana on March 17, 1861. |
| What Dreams We Have (Chapter 12) (8357 words) |
| The Wright Memorial Committee also contacted the landscape architecture firm Olmsted Brothers in regards to planning "a suitable enclosure and approaches to this marker [that Borglum was designing]." The committee had retained one acre at the Huffman Prairie Flying Field from Torrence Huffman for the location of the memorial. |
| The subjects of the four plaques are the Huffman Prairie Flying Field, the names of early aviators, the contribution of Wright Field, and the prehistoric mounds located on the memorial grounds. |
| The Wright Flyer III was reconfigured in 1908 and flown at Kitty Hawk prior to the demonstration flights in France and Ft. Myer. |
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