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Harkey, Ira Brown was born on January 15, 1918 in New Orleans. Son of Ira Brown and Flora Broad (Lewis) Harkey.
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This is the wonderful true story of one of the great aviation pioneers of the twentieth century. Noel Wien was a young midwestern farm boy in the early nineteen hundreds who's love of flying began the moment he saw his first biplane. In the early 1920's, he became one of the first bush pilots in Alaska and his accomplishments and skill as a pilot soon became legendary. He flew everything from trapper's pelts to the mail and was the "first" to land a plane in many of the most remote areas in the Alaskan wilderness. More than once, he was forced to put his plane down in severe weather and "walk" back to civilization. All of this was accomplished using very primitive maps and no real landing facilities. Wien became an expert at landing his plane on sandbars in river beds. He eventually got to the point where he had a map of the many mountains and rivers in his head and his instincts as a pilot saved him many times. He was a pilot "for hire" who could be depended on to deliver much needed news and supplies to just about anywhere in the wild. What made his exploits as a pilot even more extraordinary was the fact that in those early days of aviation he was doing all of his flying in open cockpit aircraft in severe and sub-freezing temperatures. Navigation was done strictly by vision and he would only fly when his instincts told him he could make it to his destination. He was the first to discover the wreckage of the plane that killed Will Rogers and Wiley Post and he flew a legendary new route across the Canadian rockies to deliver the photographs of that ill fated flight to the newspapers in Seattle. Wien's accomplishments grew through the years and he eventually started Wien Alaskan Airways. His love and dedication to his craft helped to open up the Alaskan wilderness and make it so accessible today
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Harkey, Ira Brown was born on January 15, 1918 in New Orleans. Son of Ira Brown and Flora Broad (Lewis) Harkey.
Graduate, Isidore Newman School Bachelor of Arts, Tulane University, 1941; Master of Arts in Journalism, Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science, Ohio State University.
Reporter, feature writer, Times-Picayune, New Orleans, 1939-1942, 46-48; editor, public, president, The Chronicle, Pascagoula, Mississippi, 1948-1963; president, Gulf Coast Times, Ocean Springs, Mississippi president, Advertiser Printing Inc., Pascagoula, 1948-1963; member of faculty, Ohio State University, 1965-1966; Carnegie visiting professor, U. Alaska, 1968-1969; professional lecturer journalism, U. Montana, 1970; Allen lecturer, U. Oregon, 1972; secretary, vice-president, director, Oklahoma Coca-Cola Bottling Company, Inc., Oklahoma City, 1965-1980; secretary, vice-president, director, Great Plains Industries, 1979-1980; president, Indian Creek Company, Inc., 1981-1993.
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Board of directors Human Rels. Council, Upper Arlington, Ohio, 1965-1968. Member planning commission Millsaps College, 1991.
Served to Lieutenant United States Naval Reserve, 1942-1946. Member American Association of University Professors, American Political Science Association, Authors Guild, Louisiana Club (new Orleans), Boston Club (New Orleans), Phi Beta Kappa, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Kappa Tau Alpha, Pi Sigma Alpha.
Married Marie Ella Gore, 1939 (divorced 1962). Children: Ira Brown III, Meg Harkey Walters, Erik G., Maybin, Amelie Harkey Foster, William Millsaps. Married Marion Marks Drake, December 10, 1963 (divorced 1976).
1 child, Katherine B. Married Virgia Quin Mioton, February 24, 1977.