Age 1. Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free. Age 5. The Burtis Opera House opened in Davenport and could easily hold an audience of 1, It was a widely used facility and Mark Twain filled the house when he spoke on tour in It was also used to house Susan B. Anthony when she lectured on the woman's right to vote.
An arsonist set fire to the building on the evening of April 26, , and the building was severely destroyed. The building was rebuilt but was no longer used as an opera house. Age On January 4, , a fire started and swept through the areas that housed the Supreme Court and Iowa House of Representatives. A major restoration was performed and documented, with the addition of electrical lighting, elevators, and a telephone system. By the early s, the sandstone exterior of the Capitol had started deteriorating and prompted the installation of canopies to protect pedestrians from falling rubble.
The entire reconstruction process took around 18 years to complete. Name Meaning. Wilbur Wright, age Twins Otis and Ida Wright , born , died in infancy. Orville Wright , born , died Orville was a good student during his elementary school years, but his grades suffered as he grew older and developed other outside interests.
He loved carving and printing from woodcuts, and he apprenticed himself to a printer during the summer months after his family moved to Dayton. In , the year his mother died, Orville decided not to return for his senior year of high school. Instead, he began printing his own newspaper, The West Side News, and enlisted his brother Wilbur as the editor. Later, he changed the weekly newspaper to a daily and called it The Evening Item.
The Item folded after just a few months, Orville became a partner with Wilbur in a printing company, a bicycle repair shop, and a bicycle manufacturing company. In , the brothers became interested in aviation. They made the first public flights in this machine before a group of Dayton residents on October 4, The Wright brothers organized the Wright Company to manufacture airplanes in , with Wilbur as the President.
When Wilbur died of typhoid in , Orville reluctantly took over. He sold the company in and retired to follow his own interests. He was co-designer of the first guided missile the Liberty Eagle during World War 1 and was the co-inventor of "split flaps" used on dive bombers in World War 2. Much of his energies in his later years were spent protecting and preserving the honor that he and his brother Wilbur had earned in developing the first true airplanes.
Orville Wright, age 6. Orville Wright, age Katharine Wright , born , shared her birthday with Orville Wright. She took her mother's place as head of the Wright household when she was just 15 and continued to serve as the mistress of the Wright home until She was the only one of the Wright children to finish college.
She took a leave of absence from her teaching post when Orville was badly injured in an airplane accident in and never went back. She nursed Orville back to health, traveled to France with him to join their brother Wilbur, and flew with Wilbur in France for the first time.
Thereafter, she was involved in her brothers' airplane business and was made an officer of the Wright Company in when Wilbur died. After Orville sold the Wright Company in , she continued to live with him until A chance meeting with an old college friend, Henry Haskell, sparked a romance late in her life and she decided to marry for the first time.
Orville was enraged; he could not imagine life without Katharine and refused to come to the wedding. Henry and Katharine lived in Kansas City were he was editor of the Star newspaper. Two years after she married, Katharine contracted pneumonia. When she was on her deathbed, Lorin Wright managed to talk his brother Orville into making amends. Orville traveled to Kansas City and was with Katharine when she died in For more details about the life of Katharine Wright, see: Katharine Wright.
Katharine Wright, age 4. Katharine Wright, age More Sources If you are interested in the history of the Wright family or the ancestors of the Wright brothers, visit our section on Wright Genealogy. T he W right F amily. Please: Contact Us. He worked as a farmhand until he joined the Church of the United Brethren and he was ordained a minister in the church in The two were married in and had seven children between and Over the years, Milton served as a circuit-riding Minister for the United Brethren Church, a professor of theology, editor of the Religious Telescope the United Brethren newspaper , and an elected Bishop in his church.
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