the surviving Wright brother was devastated and virtually stopped speaking to his sister. After procrastinating for more than a year, Katharine finally married Harry on November 20, 1926, in a small private ceremony at the Oberlin home of their mutual friend Professor Louis Lord, a well-known classicist. Orville, convinced that his sister had violated a family pact to remain unmarried, refused to attend the wedding and severed all contact with his sister. Other family members were more supportive, however, and one of Katharine’s nieces even attended the ceremony with her husband. Leaving Hawthorn Hill in secret and with a heavy heart, Katharine made her new home with Harry in Kansas City. Although they enjoyed a happy marriage, she continued to grieve over her broken relationship with Orville. In early 1929, as the Haskells were preparing to embark on their belated honeymoon in Europe, Katharine contracted pneumonia. When Orville found out, he still refused to contact her. Their brother Lorin, who had enthusiastically supported Katharine’s marriage plans, prevailed on Orville to visit her, and he was at her bedside when she died on March 3, 1929, at age 54. Legacy In a posthumous citation, Katharine’s fellow Oberlin trustees described her as “a world figure who emerged from and dwelt in a model American home.” In 1931 Haskell donated a fountain to the college in her memory. Featuring a replica of a bronze sculpture by Verrocchio, it stands near the entrance to the Allen Memorial Art Museum, a short distance from the college’s Wilbur and Orville Wright Laboratory of Physics. For decades historians and biographers of the Wright Brothers ignored or downplayed Katharine’s role as an integral member of the family team. Only with the surge of interest in women’s history in the late twentieth century, and the concomitant discovery of previously unknown letters and other documents, did she come to be recognized as both Wilbur and Orville’s unsung partner and a significant figure in the women’s movement. Richard Maurer’s The Wright Sister and Ian Mackersey’s The Wright Brothers, both published to coincide with the centenary of the first flight in 2003, and David McCullough’s The Wright Brothers (2015) reflect the ongoing effort to restore Katharine Wright Haskell to her rightful place in the Wright brothers’ saga. In 2017, Henry J. Haskell’s grandson published Maiden Flight, a work of creative nonfiction about her late-life marriage, followed by a three-part biographical podcast titled