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Susan Catherine Koerner Wright
Mother of the Wright brothers (1831–1889)
Susan Catherine Koerner Wright (April 30, 1831 – July 4, 1889) was the mother of aviation pioneers Wilbur and Orville Wright, suffragettist Katharine Wright Haskell, and wife of bishop Milton Wright.
She gave birth to seven children, and fostered in them an interest in carpentry and mechanics with her deep skills in those areas.
Wilbur wright biography wife and children
Early life
Susan Wright was born on April 30, 1831, to Catherine Freyer (or Fry) Koerner and John (Johann) Gottlieb Koerner, and lived in the family home, the Brown-Koerner House of Hillsboro, Virginia, for the first year of her life.[1] Her mother, Catherine, was the tenth of twelve children born in Loudoun County, Virginia.[2] Catherine married John in Loudoun on April 10, 1820.
John was a wagon and carriage maker by trade, having apprenticed in Saxony, Germany. He emigrated to the United States in 1817 or 1818 where he continued as a carriage maker, fir