Editing Wright brothers (section)

==Childhood==
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Wilbur and Orville Wright were two of seven children born to [[Milton Wright (bishop)|Milton Wright]], a clergyman, and [[Susan Catherine Koerner Wright|Susan Catherine Koerner]].<ref name="wb-dayton-online">{{cite web|url=http://www.daytonhistorybooks.com/the_wright_brothers_2.html|title=The Wright Brothers, Chapter Two|publisher=Dayton History Books Online|access-date=May 26, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150123025900/http://www.daytonhistorybooks.com/the_wright_brothers_2.html|archive-date=January 23, 2015|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="wb-loc-papers">{{cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/collection/wilbur-and-orville-wright-papers/about-this-collection/|title=Wilbur and Orville Wright Papers at the Library of Congress |publisher=Library of Congress|access-date=May 26, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150407222923/http://www.loc.gov/collection/wilbur-and-orville-wright-papers/about-this-collection/|archive-date=April 7, 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> Milton Wright's mother, Catherine Reeder, was descended from the progenitor of the [[Vanderbilt family]]&nbsp;– one of America's richest families&nbsp;– and the [[Huguenot]] Gano family of [[New Rochelle, New York]].<ref>Wright, Milton. The Reeder Family. The Making Of A Township: Being an Account of the Early Settlement and Subsequent Development of Fairmount Township Grant County, Indiana 1829–1917, pages 223–227.</ref> Wilbur was born near [[Millville, Henry County, Indiana|Millville, Indiana]], in 1867; Orville in [[Dayton, Ohio]], in 1871.<ref name="The Wright Brothers">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NzVl2tA6rpUC&q=wright+brothers+Samuel+Wright&pg=PA4|title=The Wright Brothers|isbn=9781900747448|last1=Gibbs-Smith|first1=Charles Harvard|year=2002|publisher=NMSI Trading }}</ref> The brothers never married. The other Wright siblings were Reuchlin, Lorin, [[Katharine Wright|Katharine]], and twins Otis and Ida (died in infancy).<ref name="The Wright Brothers"/>

None of the Wright children had middle names. Instead, their father tried hard to give them distinctive first names. Wilbur was named for [[Willbur Fisk]] and Orville for [[Orville Dewey]], both [[clergymen]] that Milton Wright admired.<ref>McCullough, 2015, "The Wright Brothers", p. 11.</ref> They were "Will" and "Orv" to their friends and in Dayton, their neighbors knew them simply as "the Bishop's kids", or "the Bishop's boys".

Because of their father's position as a [[bishop]] in the [[Church of the United Brethren in Christ]], he traveled often and the Wrights frequently moved – twelve times before finally returning permanently to Dayton in 1884. In elementary school, Orville was given to mischief and was once expelled.<ref>Wallechinsky and Wallace 2005, p. 12.</ref> In 1878, when the family lived in [[Cedar Rapids, Iowa]], their father brought home a toy helicopter for his two younger sons. The device was based on an invention of French aeronautical pioneer [[Alphonse Pénaud]]. Made of paper, bamboo and cork with a rubber band to twirl its rotor, it was about {{cvt|1|ft|cm}} long. Wilbur and Orville played with it until it broke, and then built their own.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Wright Family|url=https://www.centennialofflight.net/essay/Wright_Bros/wright_family/WR1.htm|access-date=2023-02-12|website=US Centennial of Flight Commission| date=2003}}</ref> In later years, they pointed to their experience with the toy as the spark of their interest in flying.<ref name=Crouch-2003/>{{rp|pages=56–57}}