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.