Talk:Emily Warren Roebling

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Her Terminal Illness
While stomach cancer is reported in "The Great Bridge" (McCullough, 555), Washington Roebling notes that she died of "progressive muscular atrophy" from being struck by a motorcycle while traveling in Atlanta (MS Box 9, Folder 5, EWR to WAR, February 10, 1902, Roebling Family Collection, Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries). Emily's biographer notes that her physician, Dr. Clark, attempted to dispel the rumors of stomach cancer (Weigold, 137), and Washington mentions that she had no serious ulcerations of the stomach (WAR to JAR II, December 18, 1902, MS Box 16, Folder 8, Roebling Family Collection, Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries). Brian Mulholland 14:00, 24 July 2007 (UTC) Thank you Brian for relaying this information from a distant relative of Emily :-)

The Hustis family is proud of her accomplishments. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.191.71.161 (talk) 00:05, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

Corrected Family Member
For some reason, it said she was visiting her grandmother (who commanded military troops lol???). It was her brother. Source. There is also some more information on her at this link that may be good to incorporate.

Proposal to improve page
I chose to continue working on Emily Warren Roebling’s page, the wife of the chief civil engineer during the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge. The reason I chose to continue working with her biography is because she played such an important role during this project but yet is not seen as important as her husband. One question that I would like to ask after reading the entire page and the talk section is, why is there hardly any information about her personal life and other accomplishments other than helping her husband with the Brooklyn Bridge? For example, this page does not even talk about her death. It briefly mentions that she died in 1903, but it does not have any information about her death or the causes. I think another change that would benefit the page would be if they talked more about her role in the building of the bridge, along with any other projects she participated in. I think this would be important because, in her lifetime, there were not very many women engineers. I think that the page should be giving her more credit for being an engineer and taking her husband’s role while he was sick. This is especially true because if you look at his page, it includes even less information about her role. This talk contribution is important, not only because there are only two previous talk entries, but because it is the only one that addresses the lack of information on Emily’s page. The other two talk entries are not very neutral at all. In fact, one only makes fun of a mistake that was made in some of the information. The second one, address her death and it also mentions how there is not any information about her death. However, they manage to provide information about her death that has apparently been relayed from a distant family member. This entry, however, seems a little biased because it is from what someone told them was true, and although they try to cite information, it would be helpful if there was a second source. After doing a little more research on Emily’s life I found from the American Society of Civil Engineers that “in 1864, she traveled to see her brother, Gouverneur Warren, at an army camp where he was serving as commander of the Fifth Army Corps. During her visit she met a young officer named Washington Roebling, who immediately fell in love with her” (ASCE). This information is important to add to her page because it talks about how she met her husband, which is critical to know because that is how her life changed and she became an engineer. Also, the ASCE also mentions other achievements about her life including that she took over her husbands project while he was ill and was the person that first rode through the completed Brooklyn Bridge with President Arthur.