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ABC:LHS #078-2   The First Philadelphia Fliers

Beer heir Grover Cleveland Bergdoll took to flight early; it is his Wright Brothers biplane that suspends from the ceiling of the Franklin Institute. He was also the most notorious American Draft Dodger during the Great War.

You met Hobart Amory Hare "Hobey" Baker in ABC:LHS #019 when fellow guide Paul Sookiasian and I talked about his athletic prowess; now I discuss his life as a pilot, and add new information uncovered only last year by ESPN.

Benjamin Lee II eagerly shipped off to be a flier before he finished his college days at Penn. His plane went down and his body never found. He has a cenotaph at Laurel Hill East.