[PW] aeronaut Leo Stevens?/even more

[AllenAmet at aol.com]

In a message dated 2/4/2008 3:43:07 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
Dennis.K.Lien-1 at tc.umn.edu writes:
 
 <<What's the source of the HARPER citation you found suggesting  a tie-in>>
 


Thanks, Denny, this does seem to be p. 294 in Harpers Magazine (Jan  1876), 
and we were able to work around the 'subscription' angle (thru Cornell).  The 
short article involved cruelty to children when used as circus acrobats  and it 
mentioned this "Prince Leo".
 
   The US Aeronautics and Space Museum has some bio material on  him, giving 
alternate birth-dates of 1873 and 1877. His official obit  up in Fly Creek 
(where else?) gives Sept 27, 1877. They will be sending this to  me.
 
  But based on an old article that Sue W. found, it seems as if he was  
really born in 1871, month unverified. Maybe in Cleveland. He seems to have been  
caught up in an issue at that time of 'cruelty to children' by various  
traveling exhibitors.
 
   A possible solution may also come from an wearly book in  which he was 
highlighted (with a small chapter):
   
Careers of Danger and Daring (1898), by Cleveland Moffett 

 
   The problem here is in getting the first edition of 1898  - later ones 
abound (1901, 1903, 1908, etc). This book (in Google Books, but  1908 ed) states 
that Leo Stevens is around 30 years old, but was that  age 'changed" for any 
of the different editions? What did it say in 1898? None  of the usual book 
dealers seem to have the very first  ed.

Allen
 
 



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