Marian Cummings
Marian Engle Cummings | |
|---|---|
| Born | Marian Engle c. 1892 |
| Died | 1984 |
| Nationality | American |
Marian Engle Cummings (c. 1892–1984), was the first woman in the US to gain a commercial pilot's license.
Biography
Marian Engle was born circa 1892 to Alice Warbass and Abraham W. Engle of Seattle. She was educated in Westover School graduating in 1910. She went on to marry lawyer Wilbur Love Cummings and moved to Greenwich with her husband.[1][2][3]
Cummings got her pilot's license in 1932 having learned to fly in North Beach, now
Hartford, and Long Island until the Second World War. Cummings joined the Civil Air Patrol where she was a captain and a ferry pilot for the Army Air Corps. Cummings' daughter Molly also joined the Civil Air Patrol and her son Billy joined the Navy Air Corps transporting planes to the UK. Billy was killed in a crash on takeoff.[1][2][4]
Sources
- ^ a b "Marian Cummings, 92, Dies; Licensed Commercial Pilot". The New York Times. 19 June 1984.
- ^ a b Moore, Jean P. (23 June 2014). "The Flying Family of Greenwich". GreenwichTime.
- ^ "New Heights on the Hill". The Collegian Magazine.
- ^ ""Marian Cummings Dies," Seattle Times, June 29, 1984".