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Title	Orville Wright Testimonial of Proficiency
Subject	Education Wright, Orville, 1871-1948
Place	Dayton (Ohio) Montgomery County (Ohio)
Description	Milton Wright, a minister in the Church of the United Brethren in Christ, moved the Wright family to Iowa and Indiana before settling in Dayton. Wilbur Wright was born in Indiana in 1867, but his younger brother Orville was born at the family's new home on 7 Hawthorne Street on August 19, 1871. The Wrights stayed in Dayton until 1878, when Milton was elected bishop and moved the family to Iowa. Soon before Wilbur was to have graduated from high school in 1884, the Wrights moved back to their previous home in Dayton. Orville enrolled in Central High School, where he was awarded this Testimonial of Proficiency for his algebra class in 1887. The certificate measures 8.5" x 10.5" (21.6 x 26.7 cm). Although Orville and Wilbur Wright studied books in their father's library and often read scientific books, neither of them graduated from high school. Instead, they began a printing shop in 1890 and a bicycle shop in 1892. Reading awakened their interest in flight, and they began working on a series of gliders. On December 17, 1903, they became the first to fly a heavier-than-air craft. This photograph is part of Wright State University's Wright Brothers Collection of approximately 6000 items, including over 200 technical books, journals, and pamphlets accumulated by the Wright Brothers, over 500 items related to their research, business, and legal endeavors, more than 1,000 genealogical items gathered by Bishop Milton Wright and Orville Wright, nearly 3,600 photographs, and over 700 items representing awards and other memorabilia. A finding aid is available online.
Creator	Dayton Central High School
Date of Original	June 21, 1887
Collection	Wright Brothers Collection http://www.libraries.wright.edu/special/wright_brothers
Source	Unpublished material (archives/manuscripts) MS 1, Box 3, File 3, Item 7
Submitting Institution	Wright State University
Type	Text
Format	manuscripts

Title	Om112_1132701_011
Rights	For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html; Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
File Name	Om112_1132701_011.tif
Image Height	650
Image Width	523
File Size	103.255 KB
Full Text	CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL DAYTON OHIO This is to Certify, that Orville Wright having completed Algebra at the Central High School, Dayton, O., is awarded this TESTIMONIAL of proficiency in that branch of study Third Grade 75 Alice Jennings Chas B. Stevens Teacher. Principal Central High School, June 21, 1887

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