RUTHERFORD PAGE ca1880-1912

Rutherford Page - Start of Last Flight January 22, 1912 Collection of Jerry Blanchard, 11-23-07

 

RUTHERFORD PAGE AT NORTH ISLAND      The Curtiss school was opened on October 20th for the 1911-1912 winter season. Among the new students were: Dunford, an Englishman; George Capitsini, a Greek Army Captain; J.G. Kaminski, Polish; a turbanned Mohan Singh; K. Takeshi from Japan; plus several Americans: William Hoff of San Francisco, S.C. Lewis of Chicago, J.B. McCalley of Harrisburgh, Charles W. Shoemaker of Olean, New York, Lansing Callan, Carl Sjolander and Rutherford Page. Also, F.J. Terrill of Springfield, Mass; R.E. McMillan of Perry , Iowa; C.A. Gerlin of Centralia, Washington; and M.M. Stark of Vancouver, B.C.      One of Curtiss' early woman students, Julia Clark, would arrive later, along with several American military students. In a month McClaskey, Lewis, McCalley and Shoemaker qualified for their licenses. McClaskey even astonished Curtiss, by doing a series of figure eights, remaining in the air longer than any other graduate, and speeding more than a mile-a-minute! From WALDO: Pioneer Aviator

 

Rutherford Page - End of Last Flight January 22, 1912 Collection of Jerry Blanchard, 11-23-07

 

ONLINE RESOURCES      If you search for "Rutherford Page" +aviation, using the Google search engine, (11-23-07), you will find about 62 links. Perhaps the most helpful is the following.

 

AVIATOR PAGE KILLED IN LOS ANGELES RACE; Thousands of Spectators See Young New Yorker Plunge from Height of 75 Feet.      This page on the New York Times archive website is the definitive source of information on his life and career. You can access it by clicking on the title above.

 

"Rutherford Page of New York City fell from a height of seventy-five feet in a Curtiss biplane and was dead when helpers extricated him from the wreckage at Dominguez Field here shortly after 4 o'clock this afternoon." from the New York Times of January 23, 1912

 

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