About Levitt Ellsworth Custer
Lived 1863 – 1924 (aged 60). Levitt Ellsworth Custer was a dentist and inventor.
Levitt Ellsworth Custer (June 18, 1863 - January 3, 1924) was an Ohio dentist and competitive balloonist.
Biography He was born on June 18, 1863, in Perrysville, Ohio, to Isaac Newton Custer, a dentist. He attended the public schools in New Philadelphia, Ohio, and Westerville, Ohio. He saved for college from 1878 to 1879 by playing the cornet with a river circus band that traveled from Cincinnati, Ohio, to New Orleans, Louisiana. Then attended Otterbein University and graduated in 1884. He then attended the Ohio College of Dental Surgery in 1885. Custer received a single patent himself, awarded in 1905, for a "Shield and Support for X-Ray Tubes".
In 1912 Custer took part piloting the Cole in the annual National Elimination balloon race, held by the Aero Club of America. Custer died on January 3, 1924.
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American balloonist
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Levitt Ellsworth Custer was born on 18 June 1863 in Perrysville.
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Levitt Ellsworth Custer died on 3 January 1924.
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Levitt Ellsworth Custer was a dentist and inventor.
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