Background
He was born in Saint Anne, Illinois on January 4, 1886.
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Joseph Marie Pallissard
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He attended Saint Anne"s Academy and the University of Illinois.
Career
In 1913, he started a flying school with East. L. Partridge and H. C. Keller at Cicero Field in Chicago, Illinois. He built his own aircraft and soloed for the first time on June 5, 1915. This flight made him eligible for the Early Birds of Aviation, an organization whose membership was limited to those who had solo piloted a glider, gas balloon or airplane prior to December 17, 1916 (December 17 being the date of the first flights of Wilbur and Orville Wright).
In July 1917, Pallissard helped fly one of the first twenty Curtiss JN-4 "Jennys" to Chanute Field.
Pallissard returned to his farm temporarily in 1927 and then went to work building diesel engines in the General Motors Electro-Motive Division. He died on May 24, 1960 in Broadview, Illinois of a heart attack.
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