XIII, King of Spain, Georges Clémenceau, Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, and Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia. She also made three flights with Wilbur while they were in Pau, becoming one of the first women to go up in an airplane.French journalists were captivated by what they saw as the human side of the Wright Brothers. They even concocted a story—which Katharine would take pains to refute in later years—that the “Wright sister” had assisted Wilbur and Orville with their mathematical computations. In recognition of Katharine’s vital importance to the Wright family team, the French government honored her as an Officier de l’Instruction Publique –one of France’s highest academic distinctions--when her brothers received the prestigious Légion d’Honneur in 1909. The three Wrights returned to the United States as national heroes and international celebrities. Back home in Dayton, Katharine took on formal business responsibilities, serving briefly on the board of the Wright Company before Orville sold the family airplane business in 1915. At the same time, she became an outspoken supporter of the woman suffrage movement in Ohio. In anticipation of an unsuccessful attempt to amend the state constitution, she marched in a suffrage parade in Dayton on October 24, 1914, along with her octogenarian father and brothers Orville and Lorin. A pioneering feminist, Katharine would later write: “I get all ‘het up’ over living forever in a ‘man’s world,’ with so much discussion about what kind of women men like and so little concern over what kind of men women like, that it’s a good deal like the particular subject of woman suffrage used to be with me. Orv always teased me about that. When we were working for it, he used to say that woman suffrage was like Rome, in one respect: all roads led to it, with me.” Katharine traveled to Columbus to lobby state legislators on behalf of woman suffrage, an effort that ultimately bore fruit in 1919, when Ohio became the fifth state to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment. Life after the deaths of Wilbur and Bishop Milton Wright In 1914, some two years after Wilbur’s premature death, Katharine, Orville, and Bishop Milton Wright moved to Hawthorn Hill, a newly constructed mansion in the Dayton suburb of Oakwood. Bishop Wright died three years later. Carrie Kayler and her husband, Charles Grumbach, also had an apartment in the house. As his scientific career wound down, Orville became increasingly