The first record of his family is land his father owned in Pennsylvania, on the edge of the frontier. His father was a baker, born in Germany. His mother died when he was about eight, perhaps in childbirth. There wasn’t spare time or funds for education and perhaps not even a school. His labor was […]
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He was twenty years old when he moved to California. With fresh training in the exciting new field of aviation, he was thrilled with his new job at an airplane manufacturer. His letters back home told of his apartment, friends, exploring his new city and a new car. Then they began to take an anxious […]