“Pathfinder Of The Air” Honors “Pathfinder Of The Sea”

-Staff. Photo.

On the left, Rear-Admiral Byrd is shown placing a floral wreath at the base of the monument to Matthew Fontaine Maury. “Pathfinder of the Seas,” with Miss Mary Maury Fitzgerald of Richmond, Maury’s great-granddaughter. On the right, he is shown leaving the Governor’s mansion with his wife, the former Miss Marie Ames of Boston, and Colonel John W. Williams.