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  • Harris County, Texas, U.S.
    Sunday Dec 24, 1905
    Howard Hughes: The Aviator

    Parents

    Harris County, Texas, U.S.
    Sunday Dec 24, 1905

    Howard Robard Hughes Jr. was the son of Allene Stone Gano (1883—1922) and of Howard R. Hughes Sr. (1869-1924), a successful inventor and businessman from Missouri. He had English, Welsh, and some French Huguenot ancestry, and was a descendant of John Gano (1727-1804), the minister who allegedly baptized George Washington. His father patented (1909) the two-cone roller bit, which allowed rotary drilling for petroleum in previously inaccessible places. The senior Hughes made the shrewd and lucrative decision to commercialize the invention by leasing the bits instead of selling them, obtained several early patents, and founded the Hughes Tool Company in 1909. Hughes' uncle was the famed novelist, screenwriter, and film director Rupert Hughes.




  • Harris County, Texas, U.S.
    Sunday Dec 24, 1905
    Howard Hughes: The Aviator

    Birth

    Harris County, Texas, U.S.
    Sunday Dec 24, 1905

    He was born on December 24, 1905, in Harris County, Texas. However, his certificate of baptism, recorded on October 7, 1906, in the parish register of St. John's Episcopal Church in Keokuk, Iowa, listed his date of birth as December 24, 1905, without any reference to the place of birth.




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