Lambert - Listerine
The St. Louis airport is named for Albert Bond Lambert, a golfer who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics. His father was Jordan W. Lambert, founder of Lambert Pharmaceutical Company which made Listerine.
In 1909, Lambert met the Wright Brothers, and purchased his first airplane from them. He took flying lessons from Orville Wright, and in 1911 became the first St. Louis resident to hold a pilot’s license.
In 1925, for $68,000, Lambert purchased Kinloch Field of Kinloch, Missouri, a 170-acre (0.69 km2) field northwest of St. Louis, which had been used for hot air balloon ascensions and the first international air meet. Lambert, at his own expense, developed the field with runways and hangars. In 1928, Lambert sold the field to the city of St. Louis for $68,000, the same price he had paid for it before making improvements. St. Louis Lambert International Airport thus became one of the first municipal airports in the nation.