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Katherine Wright – Dayton, Ohio

09 Friday Jul 2021

Posted by Jeannine Vegh in Ohio Women

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Aeronautical, Airplane, American History, Ohio, Ohio History, Ohio Women, Ohio Womens History, suffragettes, Women, Women's History, Wright Brothers

Katherine Wright, (August 19, 1874 – March 3, 1929; Leo/Hera) was a woman who sacrificed her life for others. It wasn’t until the last few years of her life that she was finally able to have true love, her own life and this was at the cost of her brother abandoning her. Her story is one of dedication to the two famous Wright brothers, Orville and Wilber but also to their lesser known father Bishop Milton Wright.

A graduate of Oberlin College in Ohio, she began her work as a teacher in the classroom. Constantly having positions kept from her, as it appeared her future destiny was being prepared for her. At the same time, her brothers were creating their airplane empire, trying to prove they could make a plane fly and then trying to prove to others it did.

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