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Annie Edson Taylor (October 24, 1838 – April 29, 1921) was an American schoolteacher who, on her 63rd birthday, October 24, 1901, became the first person to survive a trip over Niagara Falls in a barrel. [1]
In the early 1900s, in western New York State, at Niagara Falls, Anna Edson Taylor is a 63-year-old teacher. Needing money, she decides to become the first woman to go over Niagara Falls, and designs her own barrel. She is helped by her manager, Frank Russell.
Thousands of people have gone over Niagara Falls, either intentionally (as stunts or suicide attempts) or accidentally. The first recorded person to survive going over the falls was school teacher Annie Edson Taylor, who in 1901 successfully completed the stunt inside an oak barrel. In the following 123 years, thousands of people have been ...
Getty Images For years, tourists have witnessed extraordinary things at Niagara Falls: 63-year-old dance teacher Annie Taylor going over the falls in a barrel, the Great Blondin crossing on a ...
Annie Edson Taylor, a 63-year old schoolteacher from Bay City, Michigan, became the first person to plunge over Niagara Falls in a barrel and to survive. [92] At 4:05 in the afternoon, the barrel and Mrs. Taylor were released into the currents of the Niagara River after being towed by a boat from Grand Island.
Bobby Leach and his barrel after his trip over Niagara Falls, 1911. Bobby Leach's grave, Hillsborough Cemetery, Auckland, New Zealand. Bobby Leach (born Lancaster, England; 1858 – April 26, 1926) was the second person and first man to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel, accomplishing the feat on July 25, 1911 — while Annie Taylor did it on October 24, 1901.
Annie Edson Taylor, "who tumbled down Niagara Falls into fame", published May 1, 2019 Martin Sostre , "who reformed America's prisons from his cell", published April 24, 2019 Aloha Wanderwell , "explorer and filmmaker," published April 17, 2019
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