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

Biography

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

Elling Oliver Weeks

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.

Elling Oliver Weeks

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

Elling Oliver Weeks

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

References

External links

Elling Oliver Weeks at Early Aviators

1890 births

1956 deaths

Aviation pioneers

American aviators

Members of the Early Birds of Aviation