About Elling Oliver Weeks
Lived 1890 – 1956 (aged 66). Elling Oliver Weeks was an American aircraft pilot.
Elling Oliver Weeks (August 23, 1890 – September 10, 1956) was a pioneer aviator.
Biography Weeks was born in Slater, Iowa, to Oliver A. Weeks and Rachel Halverson.
He joined the Aero Club of Illinois in 1911. He then became an exhibition pilot for the Williams Aeroplane Company, operated by Osbert Edwin Williams Jr. of Scranton, Pennsylvania. In 1913 he crashed and broke four ribs and his ankle in Bath, New York.
On January 25, 1917, he married Ada May Haukole (1893-?) in Des Moines, Iowa. She was the daughter of Charles Haukle and Mary Krumm.
Weeks died on September 10, 1956, in Los Angeles, California.
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Who was Elling Oliver Weeks?
American aviator (1890-1956)
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Elling Oliver Weeks was born on 23 August 1890 in Slater.
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Elling Oliver Weeks died on 10 September 1956 in Los Angeles.
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Elling Oliver Weeks was an aircraft pilot.
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Elling Oliver Weeks was American.
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