Talk:Thomas George Lanphier Sr.

Genealogy notes

I'm removing the lengthy transcription of Census notes from the ref section and placed it below. I replaced it with refs but if it is not clear this is what was there before for future reference. --Dual Freq (talk) 14:25, 12 April 2015 (UTC)

3. http://automatedgenealogy.com See 1852 Canda West. The Grandparents of Thomas George Lanphier Sr. appear in the 1852 Canada West Census of Biddulph, Middlesex Co., Ontario, on page 28-29. Their children are on page 30-31:

Line49 Lamphen, Anthony, Born-Ireland Age-28 Religion-RC
Line50 Lamphen, Margaret, Born-Ireland Age-25
Line 1 Langfen, Thomas, Born-Canada Age-3
Line 2 Langfen, Mary Ann, Born-Canada Age-2
Note 1: Surname transcription error - sb Lanphier
Note 2: Original spelling on census appears to be Lamphier.
Note 3: Mangaret Lamphier is née Crawford.

4. http://automatedgenealogy.com 1901 Canada Census Biddulph, Middlesex Co., Ontario Page 4, Households 38, 40, 41, and 42 under the name Lamphier include Thomas George Lanphier's Grandparents (42); his uncle Anthony (b 1858) and his family (41); his uncle Tom's widow (Hanorah née Ryder b 1855) and their family (38) and his uncle James, wife and daughter (40).

Lengthy pull quotes and further reading section

I'm removing the lengthy pull quotes and further reading items and placing them below.[1] --Dual Freq (talk) 18:17, 12 April 2015 (UTC)

• McFadden, Robert D. (November 28, 1987). "Thomas G. Lanphier Jr., 71, Dies. U.S. Ace Shot Down Yamamoto". New York Times. Retrieved 2007-07-21. Thomas G. Lanphier Jr., the World War II fighter pilot who shot down the Japanese airplane carrying the architect of the attack on Pearl Harbor, died Thursday at the San Diego Veterans Administration Hospital at La Jolla, Calif. He was 71 years old. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
• "Names make news". Time (magazine). June 26, 1933. Retrieved 2008-05-06. A group headed by then-Major Thomas G. Lanphier, Sr., a one time flying instructor and later business associate (in the Bird Aircraft Corp. and T. A. T.) of Colonel Lindbergh, bought Manhattan's padlocked Phoenix Cereal Beverage Co. applied for a license to manufacture 3.2 beer under the brewery's old name of Flanagan-Nay Brewery Corp.
• "THE CABINET: Stakes & Sweeps". Time. April 20, 1936. The Association for Legalizing American Lotteries, on which the Post Office took its first and firmest action, is headed by Major Thomas George Lanphier, U. S. A., retired. Of proceeds from the sale of numbered applications for membership in the Association. Grand National Treasure Hunt keeps 50% for expenses and 25% 'for itself.' Harder to win than Golden Stakes, Grand National Treasure Hunt involves eight cartoons, lists 30 song titles under each one. Winners, picked by a jury of 'artists and song experts,' get prizes totaling $100,000.
• "Newspaperman". Time (magazine). March 22, 1926. Retrieved 2008-05-06. Up in Alaska on a snow-covered field just outside of Fairbanks, with its railroad and clustered wooden buildings, two Fokker monoplanes were finally assembled last week. Captain George H. Wilkins, leader of the U.S. aero expedition which is to fly over the Polar blindspot to Spitsbergen called to his aides. They were Major Thomas G. Lanphier, Sr. and Lieutenant Carl B. Eielson, the pilots, and A. M. Smith. All was set for the first tests.
• Time; Monday, April 19, 1926; "The Fairbanks operators were, however, in constant touch with Wilkins' overland party under Explorer "Sandy" Smith. The latter had been obliged to leave his comrades encamped some 140 miles south of Point Barrow on the Colville River, while he and an aide mushed across the tundra to the nearest settlement. He had run out of food for the dogs. Soon, the encamped ones flashed, the animals would have to be shot. Wilkins, second-in-command, Major Lanphier, left behind in Fairbanks, at once rushed repairs on the damaged Fokker Detroiter to send aid. Meantime he worried and worried about Wilkins and Eielson."
• Time; Monday, June 26, 1933; Thomas George Lanphier
• The New York Times; February 6, 1937; page 4; "Lanphier was not in Spain. Major did not fly for loyalist forces as reported. In the late editions of The New York Times of January 16, 1937, and in the early editions of January 17, 1937 there appeared an item concerning the return of Eddie Schneider, aviator, from serving a month in the so-called Yankee Squadron with the Spanish Loyalists and Schneider's appearance at the Federal Building, where he was questioned by John F. Dailey Jr., Chief Assistant United States ..."

• Grave of Mary Elizabeth Hayes Lanphier

3rd wife?

Lanphier's obituary mentions that he was married to Elsa when he died, but I can't find any more information about her, other than that she may have lived from 1916 to 2004.Websurfer2 (talk) 02:10, 4 October 2021 (UTC)

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