Collection: Evelyn Wenstrom photograph

Content Description

One black and white photograph of teacher Evelyn Wenstrom, first licensed female pilot in Idaho. She was licensed in 1930, and usually flew a two-cylinder Aeronca.

Dates

Creation: undated

Biographical / Historical

Evelyn Wenstrom (1901-2002) was born in Minnesota, and was a teacher of French, German, and Latin in Slayton, MN, and Boise High School. She became the first licensed female pilot in Idaho in 1930. According to an April 9 1931 issue of Spokane Daily Chronicle, she flew to Lewiston in an Aeronca plane on April 8 1931. She returned to Minnesota and is buried at Mount Hope cemetery in Saint James, Minnesota.