| LC control no. | no2015161584 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Acosta, Aida de, 1884-1962 |
| Variant(s) | De Acosta, Aida, 1884-1962 Breckinridge, Aida Marta de Acosta, 1884-1962 Acosta Breckinridge, Aida Marta de, 1884-1962 De Acosta Breckinridge, Aida Marta, 1884-1962 Acosta Root, Aida de, 1884-1962 Root, Aida de Acosta, 1884-1962 Acosta Root, Ada de, 1884-1962 Root, Ada de Acosta, 1884-1962 |
| Associated place | New York (N.Y.) Paris (France) |
| Birth date | 1884-07-28 |
| Death date | 1962-05-27 |
| Place of birth | Elberon (N.J.) |
| Place of death | Bedford (N.Y. : Town) |
| Affiliation | Child Health Association Eye-Bank for Sight Restoration |
| Profession or occupation | First woman to fly a powered aircraft solo Director of publications and promotion Executive director |
| Found in | Engle, Margarita. The flying girl, 2017: ecip galley data view (Aida de Acosta) (taught to fly a dirigible by Alberto [Santos-Dumont]) National Aviation Academy website, June 17, 2020: posted March 31, 2020 (Aida de Acosta; first woman to fly a powered aircraft solo; born 1884 in Long Branch, New Jersey; on June 27, 1903, she met Alberto Santos-Dumont, a Brazilian pioneer aviator, when she was nineteen and he showed her how to operate his famous personal dirigible, named “No. 9 Runabout”; on June 28, 1903, she flew the aircraft solo from Paris to Chateau de Bagatelle as Santos-Dumont rode below in a bicycle, shouting advice to her; she was the first woman to pilot any motorized aircraft five months before the Wright brothers took their famous first flight in December of the same year) <https://www.naa.edu/womens_history_aviation_heroes/> Ancestry website, June 17, 2020: (Aida Marta de Acosta (main page); Ada de Acosta Root; born July 28, 1884 in Elberon, New Jersey; husband is Oren Root; resident of New York City (passport application issued August 10, 1921); Aida Root; husband is Oren Root; born in New Jersey; 35 years old) <https://www.ancestrylibrary.com/search/?name=aida+marta_de+acosta&birth=1884&birth_x=0-0-0> Find A Grave website, June 17, 2020: (Aida Marta De Acosta Breckinridge; born July 28th, 1884 in Elberon, Monmouth County, New Jersey; died May 28, 1962 in Bedford, Westchester County, New York (main heading); information from New York Times obituary: Mrs. Aida de Acosta Breckinridge; born in Elberon, New Jersey; attended the Sacred Heart Convent in Paris; in 1903 she became the first woman to solo in a powered balloon after being instructed by a young Brazilian, Alberto Santos-Dumont, and flew five miles while he signalled directions to her from the ground; after World War I her eyesight began to fail because of glaucoma; director of publications and promotion for the Child Health Association; executive director of the Eye-Bank for Sight Restoration for its first ten years; 80 years old; died May 27, 1962 in Bedford, New York; her first marriage, to Oren Root, ended in divorce; in 1927 she was married to Henry Breckinridge, a lawyer and a former Assistant Secretary of War and the marriage also ended in divorce) <https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/73802293/aida-marta-breckinridge#source> New York Times website, June 17, 2020: (BEDFORD, N.Y., May 28-- Mrs. Aida de Acosta Breckinridge, executive director of the Eye-Bank for Sight Restoration for its first ten years, died yesterday in her home on Baldwin Road. Her age was 80) <https://www.nytimes.com/1962/05/29/archives/mrs-aida-breckinridge-dies-former-director-of-eye-bank.html> |
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