Emily Warren Roebling - Wikipedia

Thank you, my friend Maj Marty Hogan for making us aware that September 23 is the anniversary of the birth of young educated woman Emily Warren who married Federal Civil War officer Washington Roebling in Cold Spring, New York on January 18, 1865.

Emily Roebling & The Brooklyn Bridge - Inspiring & Motivational Story about a Woman's Courage.
"Emily Roebling & The Brooklyn Bridge - James Spencer tells us an inspirational, motivational and touching story about how one woman's fortitude, strength, and courage was instrumental in building the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City.
Emily Roebling became the first female Civil Engineer in order to save her husband's (Washington Roebling) project of building the largest suspension bridge in the world. She did this during a time when there was a lack of most women's rights. Women were not even allowed to vote during this time. She is a true inspiration to all women and human beings in general.
When she finally completed the Brooklyn Bridge, Emily was the first person to cross the bridge. She did this with a white rooster as a sign of victory."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyBXZvOqoNQ

Images:
1. Emily Warren Roebling painting.
2. Emily Warren Roebling photo
3. Emily Warren Roebling the Engineering woman behind the completion of the Brooklyn Bridge.
4. Emily Warren Roebling civil engineer.

Background from roeblingmuseum.org/ourstory/emily-warren-roebling/
"EMILY WARREN ROEBLING
Emily Warren Roebling was born on September 23, 1843 in Cold Spring, Putnam County, New York. She was one of a dozen children born to New York State assemblymen Sylvanus Warren and his wife Phebe Lickley Warren. Emily was unusually close to her older brother, Gouverneur Kemble Warren, who would eventually become a general in the United States Army. When Emily was fifteen her brother enrolled her in the Georgetown Visitation Convent in Washington D.C. to further advance his favorite younger sibling. While at Georgetown Visitation, Emily studied a wide variety of subjects including history, geography, rhetoric and grammar, algebra, French, as well as housekeeping, tapestry, and piano.

In February of 1864, while visiting General Warren, Emily met a young man by the name of Washington Roebling, who had been serving under her brother during the Civil War. Nearly a year later, on January 18, 1865, Emily Warren and Washington Roebling were married. Though originally moving to Trenton, John A. Roebling sent his son and Emily to Europe in 1867 to study the devastating caissons disease, often called “the bends,” which was a common disease amongst bridge builders. While overseas Emily gave birth to her first and only child, John August Roebling II, on November 21, 1867.

It was at this time that Emily’s father-in-law, John A. Roebling, was undertaking the immense task of constructing a bridge that would connect Brooklyn to New York. An unexpected accident which led to the death of John A. Roebling in July 1869 resulted in Emily’s husband taking over the role of Chief Engineer of the Brooklyn Bridge. While working towards accomplishing this daunting task, in January of 1872 Washington fell ill to “the bends” which would leave him bedridden for the remainder of the bridge construction. After contracting “the bends” Washington stated, “I thought I would succumb, but I had a strong tower to lean upon, my wife, a woman of infinite tact and wisest counsel.” Emily Warren Roebling would prove her husband’s praise to be true by undertaking multiple roles to ensure her husband would remain the Chief Engineer.

Emily played pupil, secretary, messenger, and engineer throughout the remainder of the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge. Serving as a liaison between her husband and the engineers and laborers working on the bridge, Emily took note of Washington’s directions then relayed the information to the men. The dedication and hard work put into the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge by Emily Warren Roebling was noted by Congressman Abram S. Hewitt at the dedication ceremonies prior to the opening of the bridge. Hewitt determined the Brooklyn Bridge to be, “An everlasting monument to the self-sacrificing devotion of woman” and stated “The name of Mrs. Emily Warren Roebling will thus be inseparably associated with all that is admirable in human nature.” Due to her dedication to the construction of the bridge, Emily was the first to cross the Brooklyn Bridge after it opened on May 24, 1883.

Though most commonly known for being the wife of Washington Roebling and for her role in the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, Emily accomplished much more throughout her life, such as obtaining her law degree from New York University’s Women’s Law class which she had enrolled in 1899. However; four years later Emily Warren Roebling would succumb to declining health and passed away on February 28, 1903 in the Roebling’s Trenton mansion."

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Maj Marty Hogan Brilliant woman.

Well She certainly picked up Mr Roebling's legacy, both the bridge construction and completion and carried on His bloodline and family name thought the birth of their son.