Amelia Mary Earhart, named after her two grandmothers Amelia and Mary, was born on July 24, 1897 in Atchison, Kansas. Being the daughter of a railroad attorney she spent her childhood in various towns, including Atchison and Kansas City, Kansas and Des Moines, Iowa. She spent the winter months with her grandparents, Alfred and Amelia Otis, in Atchison and the summers with her parents in Kansas City, Kansas. Her mother and sister, Grace Muriel, visited her while she stayed with her grandparents, but she rarely saw her father during these years. At the age ten, while she was at a state fair in Iowa, she saw an airplane for the first time but was not impressed by the aircraft and stated “ It was a thing of rusty wire and wood and not at all interesting.”
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She ended the engagement because she was too independent for Chapman, who was opposed to women working after marriage. After the engagement ended, she wrote the poem Courage. Later Earhart sold her Kinner airplane and bought a car and drove her mother east across the country to Boston after her parents divorced. When she returned East in Autumn of 1925, she was employed as a social worker in Denison House, in Boston, Massachusetts. She invested the little money she had into a company, Boston Chapter of the National Aeronautic Association, that would build an airport and sell Kinner airplane.While she worked with the company, she promoted flying, especially for women, by taking advantage of the circumstances. She also appeared regularly in newspaper columns. A few years later in April of 1927, Earhart was selected to be the first female passenger on a transatlantic, crossing the Atlantic Ocean, flight. George P. Putnam, who is her future husband, was on the trip as well and saw her flight as a bestselling story for his publishing house. Amelia, George Putnam, the pilot Wilmer Stultz, and the mechanic Lou Gordon flew from Newfoundland to Wales on the trimotor plane, Friendship. During the flight it rained and misted and they ran out of gas. Stultz had to land the plane between Burry Port and Llanelly. While Earhart and her companions settled down, Friendship slipped into the …show more content…
The Itasca tried to reach Earhart and Noonan through all the frequencies but gave up believing they had landed somewhere and began looking for tools they would need to survive. They believed that she missed the island due to a glare from the sun rising or strong winds after receiving a Naval message that she had passed northwest of the island.They started a search but with no luck after sixteen days, the Navy was called to help search. Sixty-six aircrafts and nine ships took part in the search that ended on July 18, 1937. Even though the official search had ended, Putnam kept searching in efforts of trying to find his wife. He financed the additional search with tips of naval and psychic experts, but in October 1937 he acknowledged that the chance of Earhart and Noonan surviving was slim to none. Many theories arose after the two vanished. One theory is that they touched down on a small uninhabited island called Nikumaroro. As Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery searched the island they found artifacts such as improvised tools, shoe remnants, and aircraft wreckage. A few years later they found remains of a castaway on the island. Another theory is that Earhart and Noonan were working as spies for the U.S. government. Its believed that the Lockheed Electra was wrecked intentionally after departing from their course to spy on Japanese- occupied islands, or that they landed one of their islands and were taken as
She ended the engagement because she was too independent for Chapman, who was opposed to women working after marriage. After the engagement ended, she wrote the poem Courage. Later Earhart sold her Kinner airplane and bought a car and drove her mother east across the country to Boston after her parents divorced. When she returned East in Autumn of 1925, she was employed as a social worker in Denison House, in Boston, Massachusetts. She invested the little money she had into a company, Boston Chapter of the National Aeronautic Association, that would build an airport and sell Kinner airplane.While she worked with the company, she promoted flying, especially for women, by taking advantage of the circumstances. She also appeared regularly in newspaper columns. A few years later in April of 1927, Earhart was selected to be the first female passenger on a transatlantic, crossing the Atlantic Ocean, flight. George P. Putnam, who is her future husband, was on the trip as well and saw her flight as a bestselling story for his publishing house. Amelia, George Putnam, the pilot Wilmer Stultz, and the mechanic Lou Gordon flew from Newfoundland to Wales on the trimotor plane, Friendship. During the flight it rained and misted and they ran out of gas. Stultz had to land the plane between Burry Port and Llanelly. While Earhart and her companions settled down, Friendship slipped into the …show more content…
The Itasca tried to reach Earhart and Noonan through all the frequencies but gave up believing they had landed somewhere and began looking for tools they would need to survive. They believed that she missed the island due to a glare from the sun rising or strong winds after receiving a Naval message that she had passed northwest of the island.They started a search but with no luck after sixteen days, the Navy was called to help search. Sixty-six aircrafts and nine ships took part in the search that ended on July 18, 1937. Even though the official search had ended, Putnam kept searching in efforts of trying to find his wife. He financed the additional search with tips of naval and psychic experts, but in October 1937 he acknowledged that the chance of Earhart and Noonan surviving was slim to none. Many theories arose after the two vanished. One theory is that they touched down on a small uninhabited island called Nikumaroro. As Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery searched the island they found artifacts such as improvised tools, shoe remnants, and aircraft wreckage. A few years later they found remains of a castaway on the island. Another theory is that Earhart and Noonan were working as spies for the U.S. government. Its believed that the Lockheed Electra was wrecked intentionally after departing from their course to spy on Japanese- occupied islands, or that they landed one of their islands and were taken as