Papers of Theodore Gordon Ellyson [manuscript] 1845- 1901-1928.

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Papers of Theodore Gordon Ellyson [manuscript] 1845- 1901-1928.

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Most of the collection concerns the early career of Ellyson, the first navy flier, as portrayed in letters to his mother. There are also letters from an ancestor Henry K. Ellyson to friends & family including one giving a detailed account of an 1845 Richmond revival.

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University of Virginia. Library

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University of Virginia. Library

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Ellyson, Henry K.,

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Ellyson, Theodore Gordon, 1885-1928

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Theodore Gordon Ellyson (1885-1928) was the first Navy officer to qualify as an airplane pilot. Born on February 27, 1885 in Richmond, Virginia, Ellyson entered the United States Naval Academy in 1901 and graduated with the class of 1905. In December 1910, Ellyson was ordered to Los Angeles, California to take flight lessons offered to the Navy by Glenn Curtiss, a pioneering aviator who had offered to train a pilot for the Navy free of charge. From the time Ellyson began instruction in avia...

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Built and launched at New York Navy Yard; commissioned Nov. 12, 1944; scraped in 1993. Served in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. From the description of USS Bon Homme Richard (CV/CVA-31) photograph collection 1944-1971. (The Mariners' Museum Library). WorldCat record id: 41657866 The federal government decided in 1941 to send Supply Corps personnel to Harvard Business School for training in the business of equipping the Navy. This was effected by a transfer...