Marshall Earle Reid

Marshall Earle Reid (August 31, 1887 – December 5, 1955) was a pioneer early aviator.

Marshall Earle Reid at Keuka Lake in his Curtiss Model F seaplane

Biography

He was born on August 31, 1887 in Philadelphia to Josephine Elizabeth Myers and Marshall Earl Reid Sr.

On May 4, 1912 he started from Hempstead, Long Island intending to fly to Philadelphia. Near Elizabeth, New Jersey his biplane crashed but Reid and his passenger George William Beatty crash-landed without injury.[1]

On October 11, 1912 he and Henry Croskey Mustin, his brother-in-law (his sister Helen R. Reid Mustin's husband's brother), flew from Cape May Point, New Jersey.[2]

On June 8, 1912 he was able to travel from Staten Island to Trenton, New Jersey at 75 miles per hour.[3]

He died on December 5, 1955 at his home in Baltimore, Maryland.

References
  1. "Aviators Have Fall But Neither is Hurt". Daily Times (Chattanooga). May 5, 1912. Retrieved 2009-11-25. An accident to the motor of his machine halted the flight of Marshall E. Reid, who started from Hempstead, L.I., this noon, intending to fly to Philadelphia. Near Elizabeth, N.J., during an attempt to descend, the biplane fell and Reid and his passenger, George W. Beatty, were spilled. The machine was wrecked, but neither man was hurt.
  2. "Aviators Missing. Drowning Feared. No News of Reid and Mustin, Who Left Cape May Point in Hydro-aeroplane". New York Times. October 12, 1912. Retrieved 2012-09-18. More than ten hours after their start from Cape May Point, N.J., in a hydro-aeroplane for this city, no news had been received to-night of Marshall Earl Reid of this city and his brother-in-law and passenger, Lieut. Commander H.C. Mustin, U.S.N., of the Philadelphia Navy Yard.
  3. "Young Staten Island Aviator Does 75 Miles an Hour to Trenton". New York Times. June 9, 1912. Retrieved 2009-11-25. Forced to alight because of unfavorable air currents, Marshall Earle Reid, one of the most youthful of the world's aviators, and his mechanician, ...
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