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Katharine Coman. Signature. Katharine Lee Bates (August 12, 1859 – March 28, 1929) was an American author and poet, chiefly remembered for her anthem "America the Beautiful", but also for her many books and articles on social reform, on which she was a noted speaker. Bates enjoyed close links with Wellesley College, Massachusetts, where she ...
Mar 18, 2022 · Katharine Wright was born in Dayton, Ohio in 1874, the only daughter of Susan and Milton Wright. She had four older brothers in total, but was so close with Orville and Wilbur that historians speculate the trio made a secret pact in their youth to never marry and instead spend all their time together; according to PBS, she “was essentially the only female figure in Orville and Wilbur’s ...
Mar 18, 2020 · Katharine Wright was born on August 19, 1874, exactly three years after her older brother Orville. (Yes, they shared a birthday!) She was the youngest of seven children (two of which died young) and the only Wright daughter to survive into adulthood. When Katharine was around 15 years old, her mother Susan passed away from tuberculosis which ...
Mar 21, 2022 · Witty and extroverted, she also delighted foreign reporters with her unaffected Midwestern manner and quickly became a celebrity in her own right—the only woman ever invited to a dinner at the Aéro-Club de France during aviation’s early years. Orville Wright, Katharine Wright, and Wilbur Wright in France, 1909 / THF112379.
October 18, 1974. Hawthorn Hill is the house that served as the post-1914 home of Orville, Milton and Katharine Wright. Located in Oakwood, Ohio, Wilbur and Orville Wright intended for it to be their joint home, but Wilbur died in 1912, before the home's 1914 completion. The brothers hired the prominent Dayton architectural firm of Schenck and ...
Biographers often point to Katharine Wright as the inspiration for the "hobble skirt" that was briefly popular around 1910-1911. Wilbur Wright tied a length of twine around Katharine's skirts to keep them from blowing back during her flights in Europe, and this supposedly began the fashion. It's a plausible story, but there is no truth to it.
The Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy was established by the National Aeronautic Association (NAA) in 1948 after a trust fund was created in 1936 by Godfrey Lowell Cabot of Boston, a former president of the NAA. It is awarded to a living American for "significant public service of enduring value to aviation in the United States." [1]
