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Title	Orville Wright Death Certificate
Subject	Daily Life Transportation Science and Technology Flight Wright, Orville, 1871-1948 Statistics, Vital
Place	Dayton (Ohio) Montgomery County (Ohio)
Description	This certificate documents the death of aviator Orville Wright on January 30, 1948. Wright died at the age of 77, having survived his brother Wilbur, who died on May 30, 1912. Orville Wright's occupation is listed on the death certificate as, "Inventor of Airplanes." This death certificates is part of the official record kept by the Ohio Division of Vital Statistics, and deposited at the Ohio Historical Society. The certificate is one-page (front and back) and measures 8" x 7.75" (20.32 x 19.69 cm). Aviator Orville Wright (1871-1948) was the sixth child of Milton and Susan Koerner Wright. He was named after Orville Dewey, a Unitarian minister. As a child, Orville was closer to his younger sister Katharine than his brother Wilbur, who was four years older. Two of the Wright children died in infancy. Orville, who decided from an early age to become a printer, did not attend his senior year at Central High School in Dayton. Instead, he started a printing business with Wilbur. They later shifted the business to the repair and manufacture of bicycles. Fascinated by the glider flight of Octo Lilienthal, Wilbur and Orville read everything they could find about aeronautics. They tested their first glider at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina in 1900 and on December 17, 1903 became the first to fly a heavier-than-air craft. The brothers continued testing at Huffman Prairie in Dayton, and in France, Italy, and England. A Wright airplane was purchased by the Army in 1909 and the brothers began the Wright Company to manufacture private planes. Orville resigned his interest in the Wright Company in 1915 and lived at Hawthorne Hill, his home in Dayton, Ohio, until his death on January 30, 1948.
Creator	Ohio. Division of Vital Statistics
Date of Original	1948
Collection	Death Certificates and Index
Source	Unpublished material (archives/manuscripts); State Archives Series 3094, Certificate number 11688 (1948)
Format	manuscripts
Submitting Institution	Ohio Historical Society
Rights	Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
Type	Text
Date created	2010-10-19

Title	Om3310_4563664_001
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Image Height	3149
Image Width	3168
File Size	2958.817 KB
Date created	2009-01-14

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