Haskell was one of a handful of influential journalists who spearheaded the campaign to vindicate the Wright brothers in their dispute with the Smithsonian. After his wife’s death in 1923, he and Katharine began a long-distance romance that was conducted primarily through letters.
- Oberlin College (B. A., 1898)
- August 19, 1874, Dayton, Ohio
- Teacher
- March 3, 1929 (aged 54), Kansas City, Missouri
Feb 5, 2018 · The Wright Family History Katharine Wright Katharine Wright's Life Story Katharine Wright Haskell August 19th, 1874 - March 3rd, 1929 The only surviving daughter of Milton and Susan Koerner Wright, Katharine was born in Dayton, Ohio, at the Wright residence on Hawthorne Street.
Feb 5, 2018 · The Wright Family History Katharine Wright Katharine Wright's Life Story Katharine Wright Haskell August 19th, 1874 - March 3rd, 1929 The only surviving daughter of Milton and Susan Koerner Wright, Katharine was born in Dayton, Ohio, at the Wright residence on Hawthorne Street.
Katharine Wright Haskell is buried in Woodland Cemetery in Dayton, Ohio, with her mother, father, Wilbur, and Orville. In the 1930s, Harry gave a bequest to Oberlin College to construct an exact copy of of the Fountain of Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, a sculpture he and Katharine might have seen had they made it to Italy.
Sister of the Wright brothers, she is best remembered for her caring for her brothers and with helping them organize their business. Born August 19, 1874, exactly three years after Orville, Katharine was the only surviving girl born to Milton and Susan Koerner Wright. She was especially close to Wilbur and Orville,...
Sep 2, 2000 · In 1923 she became the third woman to be appointed to the board of trustees of Oberlin College. And in 1926 Katharine married her former math tutor Harry Haskell, later the editor of the Kansas City Star. BD- But Katharine died suddenly in 1929. And Harry Haskell, a few years later, has this beautiful fountain built in her honor and memory.
She also married a college friend, Kansas City newspaper owner and editor Henry J. Haskell, at Oberlin on November 20, 1926. While Lorin Wright heartily approved of the marriage, it ruptured Katharine's relationship with Orville, who believed that through it Katharine rejected him as a brother.