Katherine Wright | The Wright Sister | #TechStory 3(In Nepali)
Channel: Hungry Mind
Date: 02/05/2020

Katharine Wright was born at the Wright home at 7 Hawthorn Street, Dayton, Ohio on August 19, 1874 -- her brother Orville's third birthday. She was the youngest of the offspring of Milton and Susan Wright, and the only girl to survive. (Her only sister Ida died in infancy.) Like all the Wright children, she had no middle name -- her father claimed that he gave his offspring distinctive first names so they wouldn't need middle names. This may be the reason for the unusual spelling of her name. Her brothers called her by the nickname "Swes," an affectionate German diminutive for "little sister." Most of her friends called her "Kate."

WOMAN OF THE HOUSE
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 Katharine began to collect as many different types of flowers and blooms as she could find in 1889. These she pressed into an album that she kept with her always.

With her mother gone, #Katharine also inherited new responsibilities. Her father was a bishop and an important leader in the Church of the United Brethren, and the loss of his wife was a severe blow not only emotionally but professionally. He was expected to travel a great deal -- at one point in his career, he was bishop over all the congregations of Brethren west of the Mississippi River and east of the Rocky Mountains. When he was traveling, he relied on his wife to run the household. When he was home, he entertained church elders, visiting ministers, and other professional acquaintances constantly. He needed her help; more to the point, he expected it. Milton had a commanding presence whether he was home or away. So fifteen-year-old Katharine stepped into the role of hostess and head of the Wright household.

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 details of their success. Back in Dayton, things were not well. Katharine was helping to nurse her nephew – Lorin's son Milton – through typhoid fever. At the same time, the superintendent of Dayton's schools had decided he could save money by reducing the salaries of his female teachers.

Thankfully, young Milton recovered from the typhoid. But just as he was back on his feet, word came from Fort Myer that Orville had been in an accident, breaking his leg and several ribs. Within two hours of getting the news, Katharine was on a train for Washington, leaving her classes to a substitute teacher. Arriving the next afternoon, she found the accident had been worse than she feared. In addition to the broken bones, Orville had concussed his spinal chord and had severe scalp wounds. His passenger, Lt. Thomas Selfridge of the US Army, had died. Katharine immediately set up a routine to help nurse Orville and take care of the airplane business. For the next six weeks, she was at his side most of the day, talking to doctors, answering mail, receiving visitors, even helping to investigate the accident. She left around dawn to get some breakfast and a few hours sleep, then was back in the hospital by afternoon.

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