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There's a family tree on ancestry.com that looks like it might be your Ice family.
ID: I568633779
Name: Clyde Wilbur ICE
Given Name: Clyde Wilbur
Surname: ICE
Sex: M
Birth: 28 May 1889 in Miller, Hand Co, SD
Death: 17 Jul 1992 in Jackson, WY
Burial: Spearfish, SD
Event: 319-07-3304 Iss in IL Social Security Number
Change Date: 11 Nov 2003
Note:
REFN: 1-2-14-3-1-1
In 1919 at the age of 30, Clyde bought his first plane. It was adamaged Standard Curtis Trainer World War I surplus plane.Without ever having flown or worked on a plane before in hislife, he repaired the Trainer's three damaged wings himself andlearned to fly it through experimentation and a lot of goodluck. Clyde was a barnstormer in general and flew a charterflight service out of Rapid City, South Dakota. Rapid Air Linesflight service, a company that Clyde had helped start, decidedto buy a Ford Tri-Motor so they could carry more people incharter flights. He and his mechanic participated in theconstruction of his company's new Ford Tri-Motor at the factoryadding his own personal modifications to it. These modificationswere even incorporated by Ford in their later planes. Clyde wasalways trying to improve upon his planes to make them moreuseful for his various needs. In 1927, a couple of ranchers weresnowed in Rapid City and they had to get back to their herds toget them out of the storm. Clyde knew the snow was too deep toland in with tires so he built skis for his plane. Although thefirst ski plane had been built and used in Alaska earlier, thisnews had not reached South Dakota yet so he was essentially thefirst pilot to have them in the region.
In 1928, Clyde was one of the first people to attempt predatorcontrol from the air in the shooting of sheep-killing coyotes.He brought in a record number of 75 in one month and wasphotographed for a National Geographic issue that same year. Hewould fly supplies and medicine to snow bound people in theouter reaches of South Dakota and took sick and injured peopleto medical facilities during the harsh winters typical of theregion. In 1937, Clyde was the first person in this part of thecountry to try aerial application of insecticides for cropprotection with a device of his own invention. In 65 years offlying in South Dakota, Clyde was proudest of his record of"Safe and Sane Flying". With all of the miles or hours he hasspent flying, he bets that he is the only pilot of that time whocan say he never drew blood (was involved in a plane accident)of any of his passengers. Clyde W. Ice died in 1992, 103 yearsold. He was a licensed pilot into his 90's.
Father: John William ICE b: 1 Dec 1864 in Washington Twp, Delaware Co, IN
Mother: Josephine "Josie" ELLIS b: 24 Jun 1872 in Ottawa, IA
Marriage 1 Beatrice Faye REEVES b: Abt 1894 in SD
Married: Bef 1914
Children
Charles D. "Chuck" ICE b: 28 May 1915 in Prob SD
J. Randall ICE b: Abt 1917
Howard ICE
Cecil ICE b: in SD
Marriage 2 Audrey Evelyn GILLETTE b: 5 Jul 1903
Married: 1929
Children
Living ICE
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