Floyd Odlum

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Floyd Bostwick Odlum (b. March 30, 1892, Union City, Michigan – d. June 17, 1976, Indio, California) was a wealthy lawyer and industrialist.

He was first married to Hortense McQuarrie, first woman department store head; his second wife was aviatrix Jackie Cochran.

Odlum was one of the 10 wealthiest men in the U.S. when he married Cochran in 1932. He owned Atlas Corporation, RKO Studios, Convair, Northeast Airlines, Bonwit Teller, and other businesses.

He and Cochran were close friends of Amelia Earhart and her husband George Putnam Palmer and the Odlums were financial backers of Earhart's flying activities. They developed the Cochran-Odlum (C-O) Ranch in Indio, California where they lived after the 1950s.

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