AIRPLANE IS USED TO PAY VISIT TO DAYTON

Richard Whitehouse, a former Dayton resident, and Russell A. Moore, owner of Moore’s Flying Service of Dayton, Ohio, visited friends in the village of Dayton for an hour this morning. They flew here in one of Moore’s planes, landing at 8 o’clock near the Lyle Green residence, and then took off an hour later, expecting to be home by noon.
Whitehouse was formerly herdsman of Green’s Jersey herd, and is now a student flyer with 25 hours of solo flying to his credit.

The clipping above comes from the family scrapbook kept by Maud Green, Dayton historian. The item appeared on June 27, 1933, most likely in the Ottawa newspaper. She noted how it compared with the 35 day trip the Green party made from Ohio in 1829. 

Richard Francis Whitehouse was born March 31, 1895 in Auburn, Maine. In 1917 he was living in the Dayton, Ohio, area, working for the Foreman Dairy Farm. He was employed at various places in the dairy business and it may be around this time that he worked for Lyle Green.  On June 24, 1919, he married Nellie (Skinner) Hurless in Van Wert County, Ohio. By 1930 he was manager of a dairy farm and in 1942, when he registered for the draft, he was a manager at the Borden Finch Jersey Farms in Dayton, Ohio. He died August 25, 1957, in Athens, Texas.