![]() ![]() In 1894 Harry met Wilhelmina Beatrice Rahner, an eighteen year old singer and dancer and they were married. Later on for a short amount of time his younger brother, Theo, took Hyman’s place as the other Houdini brother but not for long. In 1892 his father died and he took his show to the road, mostly to dime museums and other small venues. This is when Ehrich changed his name to Harry Houdini, the name Houdini coming from the magician Robert Houdin who he idolized. Ehrich’s first performance was when he was nine years old as the trapeze artist “Ehrich, the prince of the Air.” When he was thirteen he and his family moved to New York where later he and his friend Jacob Hyman got together to form the act they called the ‘Houdini Brothers’. His father, Mayer Samuel Weisz, was a struggling rabbi in the Midwest United States when Ehrich, who was a toddler, along with his mother, Cecelia, and his siblings reunited with him in Appleton, Wisconsin. Ehrich Weisz, more commonly known as Harry Houdini, was born on March 24 th, 1874, in Budapest, Hungary. ![]()
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