Wright Brothers Research Guide

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Surname(s):
Wright
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Benham
Van Cleve
Place(s):
Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, United States
Oakwood, Montgomery County, Ohio, United States
Kitty Hawk Beach, Dare, North Carolina, United States
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Genealogical Materials on Orville and Wilbur Wright

Circulating books at the Dayton Metro Library main library – these may be requested through your local library’s interlibrary loan program.

Bradley, Thomas. The Wright Brothers: Why We Were What We Are. Dayton, Ohio: T. Bradley, 2003. Contains the Wright family tree, information on the Wright family and numerous photographs of Wright family tombstones. Biographies B92 W954BR 2003.

Crouch, Tom. The Bishop’s Boys: A Life of Wilbur and Orville Wright. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1989. Biographies B W954CR.

Wright, Milton. Diaries, 1857-1917. Dayton, Ohio: Wright State University Libraries, 1999. Biographies B W95254 1999.


Non-circulating books at the Dayton Metro Library main library

Andrews, Alfred Stokes. The Andrews, Clapp, Stokes, Wright, Van Cleve genealogies : compiled with Ainsworth, Black, Crowe, Dickey, Elston, Garibaldi, Heller, Patterson, Ross, Scott, Sanford, Urbine and Wilson family connections 1985 edition. Fort Lauderdale, Fla. : Andrews, 1985. Dayton Collection B92 A572AN 1985.

Boyer, Chip. The Door: A Narrative and Commentary Concerning the Funerals of the Wright Brothers and of Wright Family Members, 1912-1948. Dayton, OH: C. Boyer, 2002. Dayton Collection B92 W954B 2002.

Wattles, Lucille Rogers. Benham Family Including the Nutt and Miller Families. Cooper City, FL: L. R. Wattles, March 2007. Gen R B92 B466W 2007.

Wright, Curtis. Genealogical and Biographical Notices of Descendants of Sir John Wright of Kelvedon Hall, Essex, England; in America, Thomas Wright of Wethersfield, Conn., Dea. Samuel Wright, of Northampton, Mass., 1610-1670, 1614-1665. Carthage, MO: 1915. Rare Books B92 W954WC

Websites

Dayton Metro Library has a Wright Brothers’ Collection. http://home.dayton.lib.oh.us/archives/wbcollection/wbtoc1.htm

Part of the Dayton Metro Library’s Wright Brothers’ Collection is a book compiled by the Wright family. This book has been scanned and the full text is available on the library’s web site. The images appear small, but if you click on each image it is enlarged. Some images do not display well on the computer monitor, but when printed are quite legible.

http://home.dayton.lib.oh.us/archives/wbcollection/WBGenealogy/WBGenealogy.html

Wright State University has an extensive Wright Brothers’ Collection, including letters, manuscripts, and genealogical information.

http://www.libraries.wright.edu/special/wright_brothers/

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