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Their mother's family represented a very different side of the American story. A native of Loudoun County, Virginia, Susan Wright was the daughter of John Gottlieb Koerner, a skilled wheelwright who had fled Germany to escape conscription, and Catherine Fry, a native-born American of Swiss extraction. In 1832 the Koerners moved to Indiana, where Susan had the run of her father's workshop and learned to use tools at an early age. A very well-educated woman for her time and place, she met Milton Wright at Harts ville College, a church school where she was a student and he was a young minister supervising instruction in the preparatory department. They were married on November 24, 1859, following Milton's return from extended missionary work in Oregon.
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