[RSwank]

A long article here in two parts:
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41306521/el_paso_times/

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41306700/el_paso_times/

The story claims he received Aero Club license #78 in 1910. Yet if you look at this collection of licenses, you can see that #26 went to Frank Coffyn in 1911. It is "possible", I suppose, he got the license in 1911 and the newspaper made a mistake on the date.

http://ids.si.edu/ids/deliveryServic...M-SI-2005-6005


Another article:

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4130...daily_journal/

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4130...daily_journal/


During WWI he was apparently a corporal in the Kansas National Guard. (Company A, 3rd Kansas Infantry) He is listed on page 207 of this book:

https://books.google.com/books?id=oc...vision&f=false



Couple of pictures here in this story:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Naco