General Squier

In 1865, George Owen Squier was born to Almon Justice Squier and Emily Gardner Squier. He graduated from Dryden school in 1882, then went on to teach before being appointed to West Point Military Academy in 1883. He graduated from West Point in 1887 as Second Lieutenant in the Third Artillery. While stationed at Fort McHenry in Baltimore, he was a student of physics at Johns Hopkins University. In 1903 he graduated with a degree in Doctor of Philosopy.

On September 12, 1908 he became the first passenger to fly with Orville Wright.

In 1909 he discoverd the "wired wireless" a method that allowed sending a dozen radio messages along a telephone wire at the same time. Because he believed that he owed the citizens for all that he had, he patented the invention in the name of the American people.

In 1917 he was appointed the Chief Signal Officer with the rank of Brigadier General and in the same year promoted to Major General.

On December 31, 1923 General Squier retired from the army and returned to his boyhood home in Dryden. He purchased the old mill one and a half miles south of Dryden . Tranforming it into the world's largest country club, he said that everyone was a member and there was only one rule, "members will please leave the club house and grounds as they found them."