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Sep 17, 2013 · A strong example of how Katharine supported her brothers is found in a letter she wrote to her good friend Agnes Beck in September 1908. Her brother, Orville, was demonstrating their plane for the U.S. Army Signal Corps at Ft. Myer, Virginia.
A strong example of how Katharine supported her brothers is found in a letter she wrote to her good friend Agnes Beck in September 1908. Her brother, Orville, was demonstrating their plane for the U.S. Army Signal Corps at Ft. Myer, Virginia.
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Katharine lost her mother to tuberculosis when she was just a month shy of 15 years old, and the loss devastated her. Milton sensed that his daughter's grief was especially deep. Never one to council inaction, he suggested that she might work through her grief by making a personal memorial to her mother. Her mother had died in mid-summer, and Katha...
Milton, for his part, apparently felt that Katharine should have some career training to fall back on when he had passed on. In 1893 he sent her to college to become a teacher – one of the few careers available to women in that era. She would become the only one of the Wright children to earn a college degree. Katharineattended Oberlin College in n...
Upon return from Oberlin, Katharinealso resumed her position as head of the Wright household, although she hired a maid, 14-year-old Carrie Kayler (later Grumbach), to help with cooking and cleaning. By all accounts, Katharine was a taskmaster, riding Carrie hard and none to gentle with Orville and Wilbur. In many ways, she had grown up to be her f...
By 1908, Wilbur and Orville had two solid contracts, one with a consortium of French investors and the other with the United States Army. Wilbur went to LeMans, France and Orville to Fort Myer near Washington, DC, each to demonstrate their flying machine. The initial flights had gone extremely well for both brothers and Katharine begged them for de...
While she was in Germany, a group of American investors came together to underwrite the Wright Company, a corporation for the manufacture, demonstration, and sale of of Wright aircraft. With the incorporation, there was no longer any formal place for Katharine in the airplane business. Instead, she found herself doing volunteer work. She became the...
Not long after Scipio arrived, Katharine slowly began to fill another emotional vacancy -- so slowly that she was unaware of it for several years. Since they had renewed their friendship in 1909, she and Harry Haskell had exchanged occasional letters. Their contact increased when Orville and Katharine began their feud with the Smithsonian and Harry...
Mar 26, 2024 · Although Katharine has no interest in attending the Shaws’ Christmas party, to which she's been invited, her best friend, Agnes, whose ambition is to marry well, begs her to come for support.
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Mar 18, 2022 · Katharine wasn’t just the Wright Company secretary and Orville’s important business partner—she was also his best friend and basically the shy, socially awkward inventor’s only connection to the outside world.
Mar 14, 2022 · Katharine Wright has long been known as “the sister of the Wright brothers” – but she was so much more. In celebration of Women’s History Month, we recently sat down with our friend Mackensie Wittmer, Executive Director of the National Aviation Heritage Area in Dayton, Ohio, for an interview with Harry Haskell, step-grandson of ...
Sep 15, 2006 · Named after the Wright brothers, Wilbur and Orville, the Laboratory of Physics is dedicated to a woman — Katharine, the Wright sister. Born in 1874, Katharine Wright seems to be, as the Alumni Magazine put it in an article from 2004, “among [Oberlin’s] most unsung heroines.”
