AON Wilbur Wright Notes DOB: April 16, 1867 POB: Millville, Indiana. DOD: May 30, 1912 ROD: Typhoid Wilbur Wright did not finish high school or graduate from college. The Wright Brothers succeeded where inventors with thousands of dollars had failed. The government, the public and some other inventors did not believe them and “the government thought they were crackpots.” (http://wright.nasa.gov/wilbur.htm) Wilbur Wright had a strong intellect, was self-reliable and was modest. Family: Parents: Milton Wright and Susan Wright (Maiden Name: Koerner). Siblings and Wilbur in order of birth: Reuchlin, Lorin, Wilbur, twins Otis and Ida (died in infancy), Orville, Katharine. Wilbur Wright’s Father, Milton Wright wrote about Wilbur Wright after Wilbur