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...September 23, 1911 at an aviation meet near Garden City, L. I., Earle Lewis Ovington was sworn in as ''air mail pilot number one." He climbed into his Blériot monoplane Dragonfly, received a sack of mail from Postmaster-General Frank Harris Hitchcock, flew six miles to Mineola and dumped the sack (which he had been holding on his lap) at the feet of Postmaster William McCarthy. Seven years elapsed before regular airmail service was attempted in the U. S. with an experimental route between New York and Washington. But sentimentalists of aviation like to think...
...birthday party Pilot Ovington was to fly the mail again, this time in a commodious trimotored Fokker of American Airways, Inc., from United Airport, Burbank, Calif., near his Santa Barbara home. With him in the plane, besides a half dozen bigwigs, was to be former Postmaster-General Hitchcock. They were to fly to Tucson, Ariz, where Mr. Hitchcock is owner and publisher of the Daily Citizen...
...committee of grave judges (Mrs. John Davison Rockefeller, Sculptors James Earle Fraser, Harriet Whitney Frishmuth, Critic Elisabeth Luther Gary) wandered around the tables of Ovington's New York china shop, awarded...
Died. Edward Judson Ovington, 66, onetime Chicago manager of Ovington Bros. (Manhattan gift shop), nature-lover, founder of Ovington's (Lake Crescent, Wash., summer resort); in Seattle, Wash...
Died. Charles Ketcham Ovington, 73, president of Ovington Bros. Co. (Manhattan Gift Shop); in Manhattan; of septicaemia...