On December 4, 1894, Nicholas H. Borgfeldt received U.S. Patent No. 530219 on an Apparatus for Aerial Navigation:

This was not Nicholas’ first foray in the field of aeronautics, he received U.S. Patent No. 411779 on a Flying Machine on October 1, 1889:

It is not clear whether either of these inventions got off the ground, but Nicholas also worked in other fields, patenting a Fire Escape in 1882 (U.S. Patent No. 267,399):

and a cigar bunching machine (U.S. Patent No. 331,676), which was actually litigated, albeit not successfully: