Annie Edson Taylor, American stuntwoman and educator (died 1921)

Annie Edson Taylor

American schoolteacher and daredevil (1838–1921)

Annie Edson Taylor 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. Her motives were financial but she never made much money from her adventure. She died penniless and her funeral…