 thumb thumb thumb laura houghtaling ingalls (december 14, 1893 â january 10, 1967) was a pilot who won the harmon trophy. ==biography== she was born in brooklyn, new york on december 14, 1893 to francis abbott ingalls i and martha houghtaling (1865â19??). martha was the daughter of david harrison houghtaling of kingston, new york, who was a descendant of jan willemsen hoogteling, who arrived in new york on may 9, 1661. regarding her mother, laura wrote: "my mother, partly through ill health, was extremely emotional and without adequate self-discipline; spoiled by her parents who thought she was wonderful and could do anything. brilliant along certain lines, she possessed the trait i find most exciting in the american character, viz. the ability to hurdle difficulties and achieve the reputedly impossible. i grew up under such influence." ===sibling=== her brother was francis abbott ingalls ii (1895â19??) who was also born in brooklyn. francis registered for the draft while he was attending military school in tuxedo park, new york as a private in the infantry. he was an officer in both world war i and world war ii. francis married mabel morgan satterlee (1901â1993) on september 19, 1926. mabel was the daughter of herbert livingston satterlee and louisa pierpont morgan, the daughter of j. p. morgan. ===aviation=== her most well-known flights were made in 1934 and earned her a harmon trophy. ingalls flew in a lockheed air express same article under timeline, also "l-100 tristar, the lockheed story, ingells, douglas, aero pub, pg30 from mexico to chile, over the andes mountains to rio de janeiro, to cuba and then to floyd bennett field in new york, marking the first flight over the andes by an american woman, the first solo flight around south america in a landplane, the first flight by a woman from north america to south america, and setting a woman's distance record of 17,000 miles. ===convicted spy=== in december 1941, ingalls wa
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