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Elling Oliver Weeks (August 23, 1890 – September 10, 1956) was a pioneer aviator.

Elling Oliver Weeks
Weeks circa 1915
Born	(1890-08-23)August 23, 1890 Slater, Iowa
Died	September 10, 1956(1956-09-10) (aged 66) Los Angeles, California
Other names	Elling O. Weeks E. O. Weeks
Spouse	Ada May Haukole
Parent(s)	Oliver A. Weeks Rachel Halverson

Biography

Weeks was born in Slater, Iowa to Oliver A. Weeks and Rachel Halverson.

He joined the Aero Club of Illinois in 1911. He then became an exhibition pilot for the Williams Aeroplane Company, operated by Osbert Edwin Williams Jr. of Scranton, Pennsylvania. In 1913 he crashed and broke four ribs and his ankle in Bath, New York.[1]

On January 25, 1917 he married Ada May Haukole (1893-?) in Des Moines, Iowa. She was the daughter of Charles Haukle and Mary Krumm.

Weeks died on September 10, 1956 in Los Angeles, California.

References

External links

• Elling Oliver Weeks at Early Aviators
• Elling Oliver Weeks at Find a Grave

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