Cincinnati's First (And Fastest) Aviatrix - Cincinnati Magazine
Cincinnati Magazine December 15, 2020 Like a meteor briefly flashing through the heavens, Laura Bromwell caught the imagination of Americans in the heady days of aviation following World War I. Her short-lived but inspirational career began in Cincinnati. Image digitized by the Smithsonian Institution Air & Space Museum She was a farm girl from Switzerland County, Indiana, where she was born in 1897, the seventh of eight children. When Bromwell was 12, her father died when he landed on his head falling out of the hayloft. A few years later, Laura moved to Cincinnati and found work as a cashie...
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