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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 49. Chapters: People from Mansfield, Ohio, Frank Purdy Lahm, Sherrod Brown, Robert F. Simon, Don Nehlen, Joel Hunter, Michael McConnohie, Luke Perry, Matthias W. Day, Mark Matthews, Michael L. Gernhardt, Bruce B. Jefferson, Samuel J. Kirkwood, Roeliff Brinkerhoff, Donald Culliver, Larry Siegfried, Wild Bill Shrewsberry, Stacy Dittrich, Pete Henry, Robert Byington Mitchell, Louis Bromfield, Paul Gilger, Richard Colvin Cox, William Logan Harris, List of people from Mansfield, Ohio, Martha Mansfield, James S. Robinson, Sylvia McNair, Jay Goyal, Hugh Douglas, Christian Fast, John Bishop, William Lafayette Strong, Lee Adams, Jamie Feick, John W. Leedy, Jacob Brinkerhoff, William W. Skiles, Mark A. Hennig, Mordecai Bartley, Ted Wood, Ricky Minard, John Allen Shauck, Smith Larimer, Augustus N. Summers, Winfield S. Kerr, Michael D. Harter, Chase Clements, Marc Wilkins, Francis Celeste Le Blond, Earley F. Poppleton, Terry Hertzler, Lydia Reid, Ernie Beam, William Johnston, Homer Lee, William Patterson, B. F. Langworthy, Lovana Jones, Dick Logan. Excerpt: Frank Purdy Lahm (November 17, 1877 - July 7, 1963) was an American aviation pioneer, the "nation's first military aviator," and a general officer in the United States Army Air Corps and Army Air Forces. Lahm developed an interest in flying from his father, a balloonist, and received among the first civil qualification certificates issued. He met the Wright Brothers in 1907 and used his interest in powered flight to become the Army's first certified pilot in 1909, followed four years later by becoming its 14th rated Military Aviator. In 1916 he became a career aviator, serving in the United States Army Air Service and its successors until his retirement in 1941 at the age of 64, rising to the rank of brigadier general. Lahm reached mandatory retirement age on the eve of United States part...
