Last Sunday’s column was about the military service of Edgar Tobin (1896-1954), founder of Tobin Aerial Surveys mapping company, in answer to a question from reader Thomas “Ty” Smith about ...

Edgar Gardner Tobin, a pilot, businessman and philanthropist who started the Tobin Aerial Surveys firm, died Jan. 10, 1954, near Shreveport in a plane crash that also killed 11 other prominent ...

I am searching for information on San Antonio native Edgar Gardner Tobin, the first Texas air ace in World War I. I know he became wealthy by founding one of the largest aerial survey companies in ...

Founded in 1928 in San Antonio, Texas, by Edgar G. Tobin ... Tobin Timeline: From Maps to Megabytes 1928 – Tobin Aerial Surveys is founded 1930 – 3,000 miles of fields and pipelines mapped ...