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Earle Ovington & wife (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • skillful north said:
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earle_Ovington
  • Richard Norton said:
    I have found his date of birth and middle name from a passenger list, and added it to the Wikipedia entry. According to the 1930 US census he was married to "Adeliade", and they married in 1907. In 1930 he listed his job as a "land subdivider" in Santa Barbara, California. In a few more days I can have Adeliade's maiden name if they married in Illinois. I found his son: Earle Kester Ovington (1912-2006) using the census and the Social Security Death index. Too bad we didn't start this a few years earlier and talk to his son. For several other articles in Wikipedia I found the children alive and had them scan photos and send me a copy of the death certificate and I recorded their memories. I interviewed 5 people so far for other entries. I just got his death date from his obituary. See the Wikipedia entry for the new details. I have added them there. Has the LOC considered setting up an oral history project to go along with these photos? Earle Lewis Ovington (December 20, 1879 - 1936) was an American aeronautical engineer, aviator and inventor, and served as a lab assistant to Thomas Edison. Ovington piloted the first official airmail flight in the US in 1911, from Garden City, New York to Mineola, New York. He delivered 640 letters and 1,280 postcards, including a letter to himself from the United States Postal Service designating him as "Official Air Mail Pilot #1." Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earle_Ovington
  • skillful north said:
    Great research. Thanks for all the effort
  • Wystan said:
    Other Bain/LOC photos of Earle Ovington, the first U. S. Airmail pilot:

Ovington, Earle L

from SDASM Archives

  • Wystan said:
    At Atlantic City, NJ?
  • Early Aviation said:
    Hangars ( which later would be moved to Cicero Field) show that this photo was taken during the August 12-20 1911 International Aviation Meet Chicago Grant Park Ovington flew both a Curtiss biplane and Bleriot monoplane at this airmeet

EARLE OVINGTON, BLERIAT MONOPLANE POSTCARD

from SDASM Archives

  • SDASM Archives said:
    This is one of the special postcards made for the first U.S. air mail and shows Earle Ovington's Bleriot monoplane with 70 H.P. rotary gnome motor. Signed by Earle Ovington and dated 11/17/35 on back.