Question: Upper Waitohi has a monument dedicated to an inventor in aviation. Who is this inventor?

Context articles: Montgomery Memorial
Lumberman's Monument
Eleanor Roosevelt Monument
Chief Menominee Memorial Site
George Washington Carver National Monument
Waitohi
Pink Dolphin Monument
Upper Waitohi
Richard Pearse
Confederate Monument in Danville

The Montgomery Memorial is a monument dedicated on May 21, 1950, to the pioneering aviation achievement of John J. Montgomery and his early glider flights in the 1880s at Otay, California.
 It is situated adjacent to the Montgomery-Waller Recreation Center.
 The monument features a 93-foot high stainless steel static test wing panel for the Consolidated B-32 Dominator mounted upright that is visible for miles.
 Because of this feature it is also sometimes referred to locally as Silver Wing.
Lumberman's Monument is a monument dedicated to the workers of the early logging industry in Michigan.
 Standing at 14 feet, the bronze statue features a log surrounded by three figures: a timber cruiser holding a compass, a sawyer with his saw slung over his shoulder, and a river rat resting his peavey on the ground.
 The granite base of the statue is engraved with a memorial that reads "Erected to perpetuate the memory of the pioneer lumbermen of Michigan through whose labors was made possible the development of the prairie states."
 It is also inscribed with the names of the logging families who dedicated their time and efforts to the industry in the area.
 It was built in 1931, dedicated in 1932 and is managed by the USDA Forest Service.
 It is located in the northeastern part of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan along the Au Sable River within Huron-Manistee National Forests.
 Access to the park is on River Road, which intersects M-65 west of Oscoda, Michigan.
 Monument Road, from East Tawas, also leads directly to the monument, which is in Oscoda Township in Iosco County.
 The monument is part of the River Road Scenic Byway, a 22 mi drive between Oscoda and South Branch that runs parallel with the beautiful Au Sable River.
 It is a designated National Scenic Byway.
The Eleanor Roosevelt Monument is a memorial dedicated to Eleanor Roosevelt, located in New York City's Riverside Park.
 It is said to be the first monument dedicated to an American president's wife.
 The monument was dedicated in 1996, with then–First Lady Hillary Clinton as the keynote speaker.
Chief Menominee Memorial Site is a historic site located in West Township, Marshall County, Indiana.
 The memorial site was dedicated in 1909, and includes a triangular park, remains of the replica chapel foundation stones, and the Chief Menominee Monument.
 The log replica chapel was destroyed by fire in 1920.
 The Chief Menominee Monument is a 17-foot tall granite monument dedicated to the memory of Chief Menominee.
 It is the first monument to a Native American erected under a state or federal legislative enactment.
George Washington Carver National Monument is a unit of the National Park Service located about two miles west of Diamond, Missouri; the national monument was founded on July 14, 1943, by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who dedicated $30,000 to the monument.
 It was the first national monument dedicated to a black American and first to a non-president.
Waitohi, Waitohi Flat and Upper Waitohi are small farming centres from 5 to 16 km west of Temuka and north of the Opihi river, South Canterbury in New Zealand.
 They are about 20 km north of Timaru.
Pink Dolphin Monument is a public monument in R.A. Apffel Park/East Beach on Galveston Island, Texas.
 Inaugurated on July 25, 2014, the monument is dedicated to celebrating gender and sexual minority communities.
 It is the first monument dedicated to gender and sexual minorities in the southern United States.
Upper Waitohi is a small rural community in the Timaru District, New Zealand.
 It is located north of Pleasant Point and north-west of Temuka.
 A monument dedicated to Richard Pearse is located in the area.
Richard William Pearse (3 December 187729 July 1953) was a New Zealand farmer and inventor who performed pioneering experiments in aviation.
The Confederate Monument in Danville, located between Centre College and the First Presbyterian Church at the corner of Main and College Streets in Danville, Kentucky's McDowell Park, is a monument dedicated to the Confederate States of America that is on the National Register of Historic Places.
 The monument was dedicated in 1910 by the surviving veterans of the Confederacy of Boyle County, Kentucky and the Kate Morrison Breckinridge Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.