Augustus Post

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Post at the Harvard-Boston Aero Meet in September 1910.

Augustus Post (b. 1873, Brooklyn) was secretary and treasurer of the Aero Club of America.

Educated at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, Amherst College, and Harvard Law School, Post was a banker involved in automobiles from 1898. In 1905 he was a founding member of the Aero Club of America (1905–1910). During the war organized the Aero Club's Foreign Service Committee.[1]

Also involved in Aero Club of New Jersey and Aerial League of America. Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Jamestown Aeronautical Congress and spoke at the opening of the Jamestown Exposition in 1907.[2]

Flew at Harvard-Boston Aero Meet and participated in 1907 and 1908 Gordon Bennett balloon races.[1]

Address 11 E. 38th St., New York.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Who's Who, 1922, p. 84.
  2. Israel Ludlow, "Aeronautics at the Jamestown Exposition", American Magazine of Aeronautics Vol. 1, No. 1, July 1907.