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William A. Ong, known to all as Bill, was one of the first Ongs I heard anything about as a child, of course excluding my immediate family, my Ong grandparents and various other uncles and aunts.
We knew of him as the "Ong Airlines" man, since indeed that was one of his many ventures. It was amusing to us that our obscure family name had an airline named after it, even if Ong Airlines was not exactly a household name.
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My father had somehow procured a timetable which he had tucked into one of his copies of "Ong Family of America.
Much later I acquired two of his books and learned more about his fascinating career in and around airplanes, especially in his memoir, "Ride The High Wind - An Adventure Story of Flying in the 1920's" (1979, Pilot News Press).
Bill Ong was born in Lacon, Illinois on 28 December 1902, the child of Judson W. Ong, Jr and Mercedes E. Armitage Ong. He was apparently named after his maternal grandfather William Armitage. Her