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Eugene Burton Ely
Eugene Burton Ely (October 21, 1886〔1900 census, Scott County, Iowa.() Williamsburg (IA) Historical Commission Obituary Collection Index ()〕 – October 19, 1911) was an aviation pioneer, credited with the first shipboard aircraft take off and landing.
==Background==
Ely was born in Williamsburg, Iowa and raised in Davenport, Iowa. Having completed the eighth grade, he graduated from Davenport Grammar School 4 in January 1901.〔Davenport Daily Leader, January 21, 1901, p. 4.〕 Although some sources indicate that he attended and graduated from Iowa State University in 1904 (when he would have been 17), the registrar of ISU reports that there is no record of him having done so (nor did he attend the University of Iowa or the University of Northern Iowa).〔Becky Jordan, reference specialist, Iowa State University, March 12, 2012〕 Ely likewise does not appear in the graduations lists for Davenport High School.〔Richardson-Sloane Special Collections Center, Davenport Public Library, March 26, 2012〕 By 1904 he was employed as a chauffeur to the Rev. Fr. Smyth, a Catholic priest in Cosgrove, Iowa, who shared Ely's love of fast driving; in Father Smyth's car (a red Franklin), Ely set the speed record between Iowa City and Davenport.〔Iowa City Daily Press, August 26, 1904, p. 4; September 28, 1904, p. 4; December 3, 1904, p. 8; December 5, 1904, p. 1〕
Ely was living in San Francisco at the time of the earthquake and fire〔Williamsburg Journal Tribune, April 26, 1906, p. 5〕 and was active there in the early days of the sales and racing of automobiles.〔Moore(January 1981)pp.58–63〕 He married Mabel Hall on August 7, 1907; he was 21 and she was 17, which meant the marriage required her mother's consent;〔〔(''Genforum Genealogy'' ) courtesy of Cathy Gowder〕 they honeymooned in Colorado.〔Williamsburg Journal Tribune, August 29, 1907, p. 10〕 The Elys relocated to Nevada City, California in 1909, and for a time he drove an "auto stage" delivery route.〔http://www.nevadacityadvocate.com/nevada-city/3723.html〕
The couple moved to Portland, Oregon in early 1910, where he got a job as an auto salesman, working for E. Henry Wemme.〔 Soon after, Wemme purchased one of Glenn Curtiss' first four-cylinder biplanes and acquired the franchise for the Pacific Northwest. Wemme was unable to fly the Curtiss biplane, but Ely, believing that flying was as easy as driving a car, offered to fly it. He ended up crashing it instead, and feeling responsible, bought the wreck from Wemme.〔 Within a few months he had repaired the aircraft and learned to fly.〔 He flew it in the Portland area, then headed to Minneapolis, Minnesota in June 1910 to participate in an exhibition, where he met Curtiss and started working for him.〔 After an unsuccessful attempt in Sioux City, Iowa,〔Atlantic Daily Telegraph, July 2, 1910, p. 6〕 Ely's first reported exhibition on behalf of Curtiss was in Winnipeg in July 1910.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=WinnipegREALTORS® )〕 Ely received Aero Club of America pilot's license #17 on 5 October 1910.〔
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