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Mestach, Paul Peck and Fred Shneider. During the summer months Ward was flying in the middle west and on August 3d was at Duluth, Wisconsin at an Elks Convention. On August 10th he flew at Fargo, North Dakota with George Mestach, then August 17th and 18th at a fair in Mankato, Minnesota, and on August 25th at Sioux City, Iowa. Starting October 14th he flew at the Mississippi State Fair at Meridian with Louis Gertson.

In the spring of 1913 he formed the Ward Aviation Company in Chicago, to give exhibitions, with headquarters at Cicero Flying Field, and reportedly had Louis Gertson, Eugene Godet, and Blanche Scott lined up to fly with him for the season. This group flew the following engagements that summer: at Quincy, Illinois May 17th and 18th; Chillicothe, Missouri May 21st and 22d; at Moberly, Missouri for the week starting May 25th at a local Fair which was attended by huge crowds. July 6th they were at Woodstock, Illinois, and at the Fair Grounds in Mankato, Minnesota July 26th and 27th. On August 3d they flew at Dubuque, Iowa and from there went to Green Bay, Wisconsin for six days at a Home Coming Celebration.

Evidently for some time Ward had been interested in the small, low-powered cycle car movement which was all the rage about that time, and since there was a slump in public interest in flying exhibitions he gave up flying temporarily and turned his attention to cycle car building, and had his first one on the road in late 1913. It is not known how long Ward continued with this venture nor what became of his efforts.

At the beginning of World War I Ward offered his services to the government and in August, 1917 he started at Wilbur Wright Field, Fairfield, Ohio as Senior Grade civilian flying instructor. He remained n the service for one year and four months, during which time he was also stationed at Park Field, Memphis, Tennessee and Love Field at Dallas, Texas.

Evidently Ward gave up flying after leaving the service. Reportedly he passed away in a hospital at Chattahoochee, Florida in 1956 in very destitute circumstances, at age 74. Apparently he was married earlier in life but

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