Emily Warren Roebling

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Emily Warren Roebling was an American engineer and project manager who played a crucial role in overseeing the completion of the Brooklyn Bridge after her husband, the chief engineer, became incapacitated.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf engineer
human
project manager
suffragist
women's rights advocate
birthName Emily Warren
child John A. Roebling II
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1843-09-23
dateOfDeath 1903-02-28
educatedAt Georgetown Visitation Academy
familyName Roebling
father Sylvanus Warren
fieldOfWork bridge construction
civil engineering
genre legal essay
givenName Emily
hasRole liaison between Washington Roebling and Brooklyn Bridge site engineers
site supervisor for Brooklyn Bridge construction
hasSkill civil engineering
construction supervision
higher mathematics
legal analysis
materials science
project management
influencedBy Gouverneur Kemble Warren
knownFor acting as de facto chief engineer of the Brooklyn Bridge after her husband became ill
overseeing the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge
marriageDate 1865-01-18
mother Phebe Lickley Warren
movement women's suffrage movement
notableAchievement first person to cross the Brooklyn Bridge after its completion
publicly recognized at the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge in 1883
notableEvent completion of the Brooklyn Bridge
notableWork Brooklyn Bridge
occupation engineer
project manager
women's rights activist
writer
participatedIn women's suffrage conventions
placeOfBirth Croton-on-Hudson, New York
surface form: Cold Spring, New York
placeOfDeath Trenton, New Jersey
religion Roman Catholicism
surface form: Roman Catholic Church
residence Brooklyn
surface form: Brooklyn, New York

Trenton, New Jersey
sibling Gouverneur Kemble Warren
spouse Washington Roebling
wrote "A Wife's Disabilities"

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Brooklyn Bridge associatedWith Emily Warren Roebling
"A Wife's Disabilities" author Emily Warren Roebling
subject surface form: A Wife's Disabilities
Sylvanus Warren child Emily Warren Roebling
John A. Roebling II mother Emily Warren Roebling
John A. Roebling II notableRelative Emily Warren Roebling
Washington Roebling spouse Emily Warren Roebling
Roebling spouse Emily Warren Roebling
subject surface form: Washington Roebling
Washington Roebling spouseRole Emily Warren Roebling
this entity surface form: Emily Warren Roebling acted as his liaison on the Brooklyn Bridge project
"A Wife's Disabilities" workOf Emily Warren Roebling
subject surface form: A Wife's Disabilities