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[[stamped]] FROM THE HAROLD & MARVEL MOREHOUSE AVIATION PIONEERS COLLECTION NATIONAL AIR & SPACE MUSEUM [[/stamped]]

BOLAND BROTHERS
Early New Jersey Aviation Pioneers

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[[caption]] FRANK E. BOLAND, Born Rahway, New Jersey 1875 [[/caption]]

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[[caption]] JOSEPH J. BOLAND, Born Rahway, New Jersey Ma 27, 1879 [[/caption]]

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[[caption]] JAMES P. BOLAND, Born Rahway, New Jersey 1882 [[/caption]]

The Boland Brothers pioneer aviation biographies should be recorded jointly because from the start they all worked together and their early accomplishments were made as a team.

They attended local schools and became talented and proficient athletes. Frank and Joseph were mechanically inclined and displayed an early interest in making things. James was more interested in selling and finance.

Their first venture was a bicycle repair shop where they also made some of their own design during the era when cycling was all the rage. Then they made a vehicle called the "Quadricycle", a three-wheel machine, two in front one in the rear, and Joseph made a motor for it to drive the rear wheel. From that they turned to motorcycles and made one that Glenn Curtiss came to Rahway to admire. During this period they raced bicycles and motorcycles to some extent, winning several contests.

In 1902 they owned one of the first Oldsmobile runabouts and by 1904 had opened a garage, which later became a sales agency. James showed the greatest

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