Hoxsey, Archibald, 1884-1910
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1884 - 1910
Biographical Note: Archibal Hoxsey
Archibald Hoxsey was a pilot who flew for the Wright Brothers.
Born in 1884 in Staunton, Illinois, he worked as an auto mechanic. He met the Wright brothers around 1909 and worked for them as a mechanic then as a teacher at a flight school they opened in Montgomery, Alabama. He is noted for taking President Theodore Roosevelt in a plane on October 11, 1910. In December of that year he set an altitude record at nearly 11,500 feet. He died a few days later on December 31 after crashing during another altitude record attempt.
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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