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credited with being the first man to fly from place to place with a bag of mail.

WM. SOMERVILLE - the Caol City, Ill. man who built some of the early biplanes. Walter Johnson made a record in one of his ships by carrying five people - quite a feat in those days.

MILLS BROTHERS - Builders of the Mills Biplanes. Their ships were flown by such aviators as Nels J. Nelson, Art Smith, Frank Stites, George Dunlap, Didier Masson, E. G. Veder.

ELMER L. PARTRIDGE - Builder of the great Partridge Tractor biplane flown by Kathren Stinson. Many a new aviator learned much from Elmer. He learned from the bottom up, because Elmer had his early training building model air craft and winning first price.

IVAN R. GATES - early barnstorming aviator who toured the country with what was then known as the Flying Circus.

CHARLES H. PATERSON - one of the first builders of Hydromonoplanes at Lake Merritt in Cal. Charley has built almost every kind of ship and they always flew well.

WILL FREW - Manager of old Domingues Field in California, where the early western air meets were held. He built a tractor biplane called the Honey Bee.

FRANCIS DOC. WILDMAN - early Curtiss Hydro and flying boat instructor. Doc demonstrated the flying boat in Paris. He had at one time the honor of having flown more hours in a flying boat than anyone else.

JAMES V. MARTIN, Professor of astronomy at Harvard, who learned to fly and build his own ships - first man to fly near the Arctic Circle at Fairbanks, Alaska at midnight.