Background
He was born in Dayton, Ohio on July 27, 1888 to Levitt Ellsworth Custer.
He was born in Dayton, Ohio on July 27, 1888 to Levitt Ellsworth Custer.
He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1913.
His first patented invention was the statoscope which showed whether a balloon or dirigible was ascending or descending. Custer produced the device for the United States. Navy at his factory, Custer Specialty Company, on North Ludlow Street in Dayton, Ohio. After World War I he invented the Custer Invalid Chair or Custer Carolina in 1919, which was battery powered.
He died in 1962.
His papers are archived at Wright State University.