BARL 5. DAUGHERTr
lioneer i'i'eat Coast Aviator - Battiatorapr - Inatruotor - Airport Operator
Sari S. Danghorty was
born at D«a Molnea, Iowa April
4, 1887.  In 1902 his parents
moved to Long Beach, California
whsra ho attendad local gr».~
and High Schools, than the
Long Beach Basinaas 0011689,
Ha wag firat employad in a bank
from 1905 through 1907, then
turned to photography from 1908
through 1910.  In 1910 and 1911
ha wa« sng·ged ifl th« anto-
inobil* bu~ire· 
CKting thia 1109 there waa
a lot of aaAtanr aeropluM
builcting bcinfi done ia th« LM Angelas ara* lid fc«o major air oMt« haii
in 1910 greatly apurrod loeal jjatereatia flying,  Seraral of thaae loeaL
experiaentez*a eatablishad their o«n aaall flying fialda to carry on their
work and oocaalonally the various builders wocLLi bold an aaateur flying
neei- to Airthar the aport.  Aa a reault of all thia aviation activity
Dau«sberty becaiaa vary intoreated and frequented theae private flying fielda
where he could becoiaa better aoquaintad with tha man and kB«p in touch with
what waa goin(3 on*  Ona of the group "(aa Jay Gage, who had built a plane
somenhat along Curtiaa and Fanaan linea, uaing a 4 cyl. 2*0 H.P. Hall~Scott
engine) and had established a small fiald for hioaelf in tha Hytia Park
area.  There Gage waa experiJoenting with hia plane and teaabing hL-saelf