Category:William F. Assmann

**William F. Assmann**
	American balloonist
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Date of birth	1862
Date of death	19 October 1920
Occupation	balloonist;
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English: William F. Assmann (1862-1920) of St. Louis, record setting balloonist. He attempted several times to win the John Gordon Bennett Trophy, a flying endurance competition to spur development of gas balloon technology, which was founded in 1906 by the sporty owner of the New York Herald.[1]