August H. Wehmeyer and Caroline Rothert decided to emigrate from Germany to the United States in 1871. They traveled by steamship to Baltimore, Maryland and, in that same year, moved to Cincinnati, Ohio (Baltimore Passenger and Immigration Lists). …

On September 15, 1911, at Kinloch Field (St. Louis, MO), Albert B. Lambert (namesake of Lambert International Airport), “qualified for a pilot’s license to manipulate an aeroplane.” That same week, newspapers in and around Lincoln County began…