Katharine Wright

Katharine Wright Haskell was an American teacher, suffragist, and the younger sister of aviation pioneers Wilbur and Orville Wright. She pursued a professional career as a high school teacher in Dayton, Ohio and also managed her brothers' bicycle shop during their trips to Kitty Hawk. She acted as their right-hand woman and aide when the brothers demonstrated their airplanes in Europe, assisting with their correspondence, business affairs, and interactions with royals and captains of industry; she became an international celebrity along with them. A significant figure in the early-twentieth-century women's movement, she worked on behalf of woman's suffrage in Ohio and served as the third female trustee of Oberlin College.