2 Quotes & Sayings By Edward Rickenbacker
Edward Vernon Rickenbacker was born in St. Louis, Missouri on October 16, 1894. He was one of three children of Jacob and Rose (née Scheffer) Rickenbacker. His father was a German immigrant who owned a prosperous St
Louis bakery business. At 13, he started working in his father's bakery business. He attended St.
Louis University High School, where he was president of the student body and captain of the baseball team, and then graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1917. He married his childhood sweetheart, Eda Brown Rickenbacker, in 1914; they had two sons and two daughters. After graduation, he served as an officer in the U.S.
Navy during World War I, where he earned the rank of lieutenant commander. He returned to St. Louis after the war to work for his father's bakery business for two years before deciding to become a journalist at The St.
Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper in 1920 under editor Walter Lippmann, who became a lifelong friend and mentor to him .