Milton Wright Diaries: 1893

Bishop Milton Wright, father of Wilbur and Orville Wright, regularly recorded entries in his diary from 1857 until his death in 1917. This diary’s entries began on January 1893 and continue until December 1893. Wright records a variety of information regarding his travels, family history, and expenditures. Of particular note, this diary includes a record of the Wilbur and Orville attending the World Columbian Exposition in Chicago, which the researcher might find of interest. View the transcript of the Milton Wright diaries.https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/milton_wright_diaries/1021/thumbnail.jp

Milton Wright Diaries: 1882

Bishop Milton Wright, father of Wilbur and Orville Wright, regularly recorded entries in his diary from 1857 until his death in 1917. This diary’s entries begin on January 1882 and continue until December 1882. Wright records a variety of information regarding his travels, family history, and expenditures. View the transcript of the Milton Wright diaries.https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/milton_wright_diaries/1010/thumbnail.jp

Milton Wright Diaries: 1915

Bishop Milton Wright, father of Wilbur and Orville Wright, regularly recorded entries in his diary from 1857 until his death in 1917. This diary’s entries began on January 1915 and continue until December 1915. Wright records a variety of information regarding his travels, family history, and expenditures. Of particular note, this diary includes a records of Orville being sick with neuralgia and more. View the transcript of the Milton Wright diaries.https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/milton_wright_diaries/1044/thumbnail.jp

Milton Wright Diaries: 1916

Bishop Milton Wright, father of Wilbur and Orville Wright, regularly recorded entries in his diary from 1857 until his death in 1917. This diary’s entries began on January 1916 and continue until December 1916. Wright records a variety of information regarding his travels, family history, and expenditures. Of particular note, this diary includes a records of Milton, Katharine, and Orville taking a trip to Waubec Island, Orville\u27s purchase of Lambert Island, and more. View the transcript of the Milton Wright diaries.https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/milton_wright_diaries/1045/thumbnail.jp

Milton Wright Diaries: 1906

Bishop Milton Wright, father of Wilbur and Orville Wright, regularly recorded entries in his diary from 1857 until his death in 1917. This diary’s entries began on January 1906 and continue until December 1906. Wright records a variety of information regarding his travels, family history, and expenditures. Of particular note, this diary includes a record of the Wright Brothers receiving a patent #821,393 for a flying machine, which the researcher might find of interest. View the transcript of the Milton Wright diaries.https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/milton_wright_diaries/1034/thumbnail.jp

Milton Wright Diaries: 1916

Bishop Milton Wright, father of Wilbur and Orville Wright, regularly recorded entries in his diary from 1857 until his death in 1917. This diary’s entries began on January 1916 and continue until December 1916. Wright records a variety of information regarding his travels, family history, and expenditures. Of particular note, this diary includes a records of Milton, Katharine, and Orville taking a trip to Waubec Island, Orville\u27s purchase of Lambert Island, and more. View the transcript of the Milton Wright diaries.https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/milton_wright_diaries/1045/thumbnail.jp

Milton Wright Diaries: 1908

Bishop Milton Wright, father of Wilbur and Orville Wright, regularly recorded entries in his diary from 1857 until his death in 1917. This diary’s entries began on January 1908 and continue until December 1908. Wright records a variety of information regarding his travels, family history, and expenditures. Of particular note, this diary includes a record of the Wright Brothers signing a formal contract with the U.S. Signal Corps for airplanes, Wilbur flying at Le Mans, and a the first crash that kills Thomas Selfridge and injures Orville. which the researcher might find of interest. View the transcript of the Milton Wright diaries.https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/milton_wright_diaries/1036/thumbnail.jp

Milton Wright Diaries: 1881

Bishop Milton Wright, father of Wilbur and Orville Wright, regularly recorded entries in his diary from 1857 until his death in 1917. This diary’s entries begin on January 1881 and continue until December 1881. Wright records a variety of information regarding his travels, family history, and expenditures. Of particular note, this diary includes a record of Wright being defeated in an election for bishop and Wilbur Wright completing high school, which the researcher might find of interest. View the transcript of the Milton Wright diaries.https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/milton_wright_diaries/1009/thumbnail.jp

On the Aviation Trail in the Wright Brothers\u27 West Side Neighborhood in Dayton, Ohio

The West Side Dayton neighborhood where Wilbur and Orville Wright lived, worked and invented the airplane includes five historic buildings or building sites, all within a block or two of each other, that represent the five major periods in the brothers\u27 lives. This paper tells the story of the five sites at three different periods in time: 1) when they were occupied by the Wrights during the turn of the last century, 2) when they were discovered by Aviation Trail in 1981 and 3) today, in 2001. The stories of the earliest period show the historical significance of each of the sites. The 1981 stories tell what happened to each site and the surrounding neighborhood between the time of the Wrights\u27 era and the year they were discovered by Aviation Trail. The 2001 stories tell what has happened to the sites and the neighborhood during the 20 years since they were found by Aviation Trail. Paper presented in the symposium Following the Footsteps of the Wright Brothers: Their Sites and Stories , at Wright State University, Dayton, OH, 28 September 2001

Letter, May 18, 1925, Katharine Wright to Harry [Henry J. Haskell]

In this letter, Katharine Wright writes to Henry Haskell about two articles, one written by Haskell and the other a story about Wilbur and Orville Wright, a bit about the Wright parents, more on the continuing conflict with the Smithsonian, and a meeting with Robert Small. She touches on aging, giving advice, and other aspects of her daily life.https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/special_ms700_correspondence/1050/thumbnail.jp