Merrill C. Meigs
Merrill C. Meigs | |
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Meigs, University of Chicago, 1905 | |
| Born | Merrill Church Meigs November 25, 1883 Poweshiek County, Iowa, U.S. |
| Died | January 26, 1968 (aged 84) |
| Resting place | Mount Hope Cemetery |
| Occupations | Publisher, pilot, journalist |
| Spouses | Ethel May Harmon
(m. 1912, death)Blanche Noe McKeever
(m. 1960) |
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Merrill Church Meigs /mɛɡz/ (November 25, 1883 – January 26, 1968) was the publisher of the Chicago Herald and Examiner in the 1920s. Inspired to become a pilot by Charles Lindbergh's solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean, he became a booster of Chicago as a world center of aviation. He gave flying lessons to President Harry S. Truman.