William S. Brock, Sr. was an aviation pioneer. With Edward F. Schlee he made the eighth non-stop crossing of the Atlantic Ocean

Atlantic Ocean

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Biography

He was born in 1895 in Gladstone, Michigan

Gladstone, Michigan

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. He married Violet Harrison January 23, 1915 in Rochester, New York

Rochester, New York

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 and had as their son, William S. Brock, Jr. In 1927 with Edward F. Schlee, they planned to fly around the word in their airplane "Pride of Detroit". He died on November 13, 1932 at Presbyterian Hospital

Presbyterian Hospital

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 in Chicago, Illinois of cancer.

Legacy

The airplane "Pride of Detroit" is in the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan

Dearborn, Michigan

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