Knabenshue, Roy, 1875-1960
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1875 - 1960
Biographical Note: Roy Knabenshue
Augustus Roy Knabenshue was an early balloonist and aviator.
Knabenshue was born in 1875 in Lancaster, Ohio. In 1904, during the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, he piloted Thomas Scott Baldwin's California Arrow dirigible to 2,000 feet and returned to the takeoff point. Then, in 1905, he was the first to make a dirigible flight over New York City in 1905 in the Toldedo II. In 1913 he built the first passenger dirigible in America: White City.
As public interest grew in airplanes, he began working for the Wright Brothers as the manager of their exhibition team. He later worked for the National Park Service. He died in California in 1960.
Gender
- male
Occupations
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Series I. Wright Company, 1909-1927
Series
Scope and Contents
Series I. Wright Company includes material dating from 1909-1927 and is divided into three subseries: Administrative, Legal and Financial records.The Administrative records subseries consists of bound volumes of documents. Two bound volumes with documents glued in and one additional file consist of minutes from meetings of the board of directors and executive committee. The minutes reflect such things as the reorganization of leadership in late 1915,...
Dates:
1909-1927
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