Note: This folder contains listings of the Wright Family in Dayton City Directories from l899/ l900 to l908/l909.

Box 16, Item 2: Book - Wrights in England

This is the genealogy of the Wrights in England, starting with John Wright of Southveald, Essex (d. circa 1489), through six generations to 1691. It includes the great-great-great-grandson Samuel Wright (b. 1614 in London), who came to America in the 1630's. He became a deacon in the Puritan community of Springfield, Mass. and died in Northampton, Mass. in 1665. (WBL).

Box 16, Item 3: Book -Wright

This is the genealogy of the Wrights in America, starting with Dan Wright (b. 1757 in Lebanon, Conn., d. 1832 in Miami County, Ohio), great-great-grandson of Deacon Samuel Wright and great-grandmother of Orville and Wilbur, through six generations to 1947. According to notes in this book, Deacon Samuel was born in 1614 (see also Item 1)(WBL). To see this book please link here

Box 16, Item 4: Envelope-Porter and Freeman

This lists information about the ancestral line of Sarah Porter and Edmund Freeman VI, parents of Dan Wright's wife, Sarah Freeman (b. 1762, d. 1848). It also includes a synopsis of the three lineal descendants (James, Samuel and Benoni) from Deacon Samuel to Dan. According to this synopsis, Deacon Samuel was born before 1600. (WBL). Box 16, Item 5: Book -Van Cleve

This is the genealogy of one of Dayton's oldest families, the Van Cleves, starting with John Van Cleve (b. 1628 in Holland, came to America in 1650 or earlier ), through nine generations to 1945. It includes his great-great-grandson Benjamin one of Dayton's first settlers (1796) and his sister Margaret, said to have been the first white women to set foot in Dayton. Margaret's daughter, Catherine Reeder (b. 1800) married Dan Wright, Jr. and is Orville and Wilbur's paternal grandmother. Another of Margaret's brothers, William, married Dan Jr's sister Eliza. (WBL).

Box 16, Item 6: Book -Reeder

This is the genealogy of the Reeder family, starting with Joseph Reeder I, who came to America from England in about 1650 and settled in Newtown, Long Island. His great-great-grandson George married Margaret Van Cleve in Cincinnati in 1796 and was Catherine Reader Wright's father. This genealogy spans nine generations to 1945.

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Box 16, Item 7 : Book - Fry

This is the genealogy of the Fry (early spellings Fryer or Freyer) family, starting with John Phillip Freyer (b.1738, lived in Virginia). His daughter Catherine married John Gothlieb Koerner, a German immigrant, in 1820 in Loudon County, Va. Their daughter, Susan Catherine Koerner (b.1831 in Va.) married Milton Wright in 1859 in Union County, Indiana; Orville and Wilbur were two of their children. This genealogy spans five generations to 1945.