Samuel H. McLeary

Samuel H. McLeary (1881 – July 2, 1924) was an aviation pioneer.

He was one of the first 24 people chosen by the Aviation Section of the U.S. Signal Corp to be pilots.

He was born in 1881.

He was murdered by a hitchhiker on July 2, 1924 in Chesterfield, South Carolina.

[1][2] He was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

Glenn Curtiss and Lieutenants Joseph D. Park ; Lewis Edward Goodier, Jr. ; Samuel H. McLeary; and Lewis Hyde Brereton on December 4, 1912