![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() purchased property on the south side of Route 24-Conklin Street and had the Fairchild Flying Field's original layout plan prepared on November 3, 1927. ![]() Republic Airport was developed by Sherman Fairchild as the Fairchild Flying Field in East Farmingdale in late 1927, as his airplane and airplane engine factories and 10-acre flying field on Motor Avenue in South Farmingdale were inadequate to support the mass assembly line production he desired for his FC-2, Model 21, Model 41, and Model 71 airplanes. Rathgeber, Former Village Trustee Buried Here Monday.” Farmingdale Post. The Boroughs of Brooklyn & Queens Counties of Nassau & Suffolk 1609-1924. Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1925 William Rathgeber died on February 27, 1952. He married Minnie Maul in 1919 and they had three children. He was a member of the Farmingdale Fire Department, a Village Trustee, Fire Commissioner, Director of Family Laundry Owners Association in Brooklyn, past president of the Suffolk Nassau Laundry Board and Farmingdale Rotary Club. He also founded the Farmingdale Amusement Palace which had one of the largest dance floors on Long Island. He began Individual Laundry Service in Farmingdale with his father and brother. He started his work as a bricklayer which he did for five years. William Rathgeber was born on Apin New York City. ![]()
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