William S. Brock Sr. (1895 – November 13, 1932) was an aviation pioneer. With
Edward F. Schlee he made the eighth non-stop crossing of the
Atlantic Ocean
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Biography
He was born in 1895.
[ He married Violet Harrison January 23, 1915, in ]Rochester, New York
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, and had as their son, William S. Brock Jr. In 1927, he and Edward F. Schlee planned to fly around the world in their airplane "Pride of Detroit". He died on November 13, 1932, at Presbyterian Hospital in Chicago, Illinois
(''City in a Garden''); I Will
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Legacy
The airplane "Pride of Detroit" is in the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan
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1895 births
1932 deaths
American aviators