Short answers, pulled from the story.
The Wright Brothers opened one of the world's earliest flying schools toward the end of February 1910. This location subsequently became Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama.
Second Lieutenant William C. Maxwell was an Atmore, Alabama native who died on the 12th of August 1920 while attempting to land his DH-4 aircraft in a sugarcane field in the Philippines. The War Department redesignated the depot as Maxwell Field on the 8th of November 1922 in his honor.
Congressman J. Lister Hill affixed an amendment to a military appropriations bill in 1925 providing $200,000 for the construction of permanent buildings at Maxwell Field. This spending convinced the War Department to keep the facility open despite initial plans to close it.
The Army Air Corps Tactical School moved to Maxwell Field from Langley Field in December 1928. The first ACTS training occurred at Maxwell Field on the 17th of September 1931 with forty-one students meeting at 8:40 a.m.
The installation was announced to be converted into a pilot-training center in 1940. On the 8th of July 1940 the Army Air Corps redesignated its training center as the Southeast Air Corps Training Center.
Maxwell Field was renamed Maxwell Air Force Base in September 1947 when the Air Force became an independent service. Today it serves as the postgraduate academic center of the U.S. Air Force through Air University.