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Eddie Gardner

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Eddie Gardner

Birth
Plainfield, Will County, Illinois, USA
Death
6 May 1921 (aged 33)
Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska, USA
Burial
Plainfield, Will County, Illinois, USA
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Aviation Pioneer. He is credited with flying the first air-mail delivery from between New York City and Chicago on September 7, 1918. The full round trip flight took 9 hours and 18 minutes. He died from injuries sustained in a plane crash during an aviation tournament in Holdredge, Nebraska. His feat was commemorated for many years on a wall mural at the Plainfield Post Office in Plainfield, Illinois.
Aviation Pioneer. He is credited with flying the first air-mail delivery from between New York City and Chicago on September 7, 1918. The full round trip flight took 9 hours and 18 minutes. He died from injuries sustained in a plane crash during an aviation tournament in Holdredge, Nebraska. His feat was commemorated for many years on a wall mural at the Plainfield Post Office in Plainfield, Illinois.

Bio by: T W Zimmerman

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  • Maintained by: Find a Grave
  • Originally Created by: T W Zimmerman
  • Added: Jul 22, 2004
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9172988/eddie-gardner: accessed ), memorial page for Eddie Gardner (4 Apr 1888–6 May 1921), Find a Grave Memorial ID 9172988, citing Plainfield Township Cemetery, Plainfield, Will County, Illinois, USA; Maintained by Find a Grave.