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Katharine Wright Haskell (August 19, 1874 – March 3, 1929) was an American teacher, suffragist, and the younger sister of aviation pioneers Wilbur and Orville Wright.
5 feb 2018 · Learn about the life and achievements of Katharine Wright Haskell, the only surviving daughter of the Wright brothers and a pioneer in women's education and rights. Find out how she supported her brothers' aviation career, married a newspaper editor, and was buried in Dayton.
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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...
Learn about the life and achievements of Katharine Wright, the youngest and only girl of the Wright brothers. She was a teacher, a hostess, a friend, and a supporter of her brothers' aviation experiments.
31 mar 2023 · Learn about Katharine Wright, the younger sister of Wilbur and Orville Wright, who supported their aviation experiments and became an officer of the Wright Company. She also advocated for women's suffrage and was awarded the Legion of Honor in France.
14 mar 2022 · Learn about Katharine Wright, the sister of the Wright brothers and a pioneer in aviation history, from her step-grandson Harry Haskell. Watch or listen to his podcast interviews with scholars and experts on her life, legacy, and challenges.
The digital collection consists of letters written by Katharine Wright Haskell ranging from 1922 to 1926. They contain a variety of details from her personal life, from major historical moments to minor details of her daily life and interpersonal connections.
14 mar 2022 · An interview with Harry Haskell, step-grandson of Katharine Wright, author of "Maiden Flight" and host of the podcast, "In Her Own Wright," a three-part seri...
