He married Lulu Billheimer, the daughter of United Brethren missionaries, in and had a daughter, Catherine Louise, a year later. For a short time after his first daughter was born, Reuch pronounced Roosh and Lulu lived with her parents in Birmingham, Alabama, then moved back to Dayton, OH.
Reusch had a difficult time earning a living in Dayton, and in he moved his family to Kansas City, MO where he found work as a bookkeeper with another lumber company. That job proved a dead end, and he took another with a railroad. In , he moved to a farm near Tonganoxie, KS, where he raised cattle and seed corn.
He died in Some historians are of the opinion the Reuch was the black sheep of the Wright family and have painted him as being at loggerheads with his father Milton.
There was probably some tension between them — fathers often have more expectations of first-born sons than are warranted — but the evidence suggests that while Milton was stern to the point of being overbearing, his sense of family was too strong not to be supportive and interested in Reuch's well-being.
Although Reuch lived far from Dayton, Milton visited him as often as he could. Reuch also visited Dayton, and his correspondence with family members was warm and affectionate. He was definitely critical of himself. When he arranged the sale of his father's land in Adair, Iowa in , he thought that he had bested in the deal and offered to take a lesser share of the proceeds that Milton wanted to distribute equally among his sons. He also balked at accepting his inheritance from Wilbur in , saying that he hadn't been as involved in the airplane business as Orville, Lorin and Katharine.
But these feelings of inferiority were likely the result of his own hard luck in life rather than any break from his family. Reuchlin Wright, age Lorin Wright , born In , he went to work for Wilbur and Orville in their print shop, and in helped Katharine manage the Wright Cycle company while their brothers were in Kitty Hawk, NC.
He also started his own "street sprinkling" business to help make some extra money. Before , there were less than 12 miles of paved streets in Dayton and street sprinkling was necessary to keep the dust down in dry weather. He visited Wilbur and Orville at Kitty Hawk in where he took photos of their gliding experiments, then notified the press in after their first powered flights. When Wilbur and Orville needed a large space for propeller tests or to assemble large airframes, Lorin loaned them his carriage barn -- his home on West Second Street was almost directly behind their bicycle shop on West Third.
There he helped his brother set the world's first soaring record — Orville stayed aloft for almost ten minutes. Two years later, he helped Orville test the first airplane autopilot, a device which won the Collier Trophy for aeronautics. Curtiss had lost a patent suit the Wrights had brought against him and he flew the old Aerodrome in an attempt to get around the patent by proving that another airplane could have flown before the Wright Flyer.
After Orville sold the Wright Company, Lorin bought an interest in Miami Wood Specialties — the company manufactured toys, including one called Flips and Flops that Orville had designed. He also became a city commissioner in Dayton. Lorin Wright, age Wilbur Wright , born Wilbur was an excellent student and athlete. He completed the requirements for a high school degree at Richmond High School in Richmond, IN, but never applied for a certificate, perhaps because his family moved to Dayton, OH just before graduation.
In , he took several college preparatory classes at Central High School in Dayton, OH with ambitions of going to Yale University, but he never attended college. Instead, he stayed home and nursed his sick mother until she died in When the newspaper business failed, Wilbur became a partner with Orville in a printing company, a bicycle repair shop, and a bicycle manufacturing company.
In , Wilbur and Orville became interested in aviation. They performed their first aeronautical experiments with kites in , then built a series of gliders through , developing an aerodynamic control system for airplanes while teaching themselves to fly. They added an engine to their aircraft in and made the first controlled, sustained powered flights on December 17 of that year.
They continued to refine their invention until it was what they considered a "practical" airplane. They made the first public demonstrations of this machine to a group of Dayton residents on October 4, In , they sold airplanes to the US Army and to a French syndicate, and demonstrated them to the public at large.
The Wright brothers organized the Wright Company to manufacture airplanes in , and they began to file patent infringement suits against other airplane manufacturers that were using their methods of aerodynamic control.
But we should also remember the years of needless, bitter legal conflict in which they embroiled the industry they founded. Sean Trainor has a Ph. He teaches history and humanities at Santa Fe College and blogs at seantrainor. Contact us at letters time. Dry plate, glass negatives from of Orville Wright at age 34 and Wilbur Wright at Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
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September 17, The first airplane fatality occurs when a propeller blade breaks on a Wright machine at Fort Myer, VA. Orville Wright was seriously injured and Lt. Thomas E. Selfridge died during the accident. This incident terminated the Wright Army Trials for the year. The school was in operation from to The Wrights' first school was located in Montgomery, Alabama. May 30, Wilbur dies at the age of 45 after a month-long bout with typhoid fever.
January 13, Orville begins tests of the airplane automatic stabilizer, the last aviation innovation that he and Wilbur worked on together. The device was patented on October 14, October 15, The Wright company is sold to a syndicate, allowing Orville to devote himself fully to research.
Orville continues to serve the company as a consulting engineer, however, until August 11, June-November, Orville moves from the bicycle shop at W.
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