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EARLY LIFE • Amelia Mary Earhart was born on the 24th of July, 1897 in Atchison, Kansas. Her father was Samuel ‘Edwin’ Stanton Earhart and her mother was Amelia Otis Earhart. She had a younger sister Grace Muriel.Amelia’s childhood can be described as quite unconventional for that time, as her mother did not want her children to become like the typical girls of that time. She gave her daughters a considerable amount of freedom.
Amelia was at best a tomboy and she would often set off on adventures along with her sister. Her father worked as a claims officer for the Rock Island Railroad. Amelia was 11 years old when her father got transferred to Des Moines, Iowa. However, Amelia, her mother and her sister remained in Atchison with her grandparents. They finally moved to Iowa in 1909.
However, Amelia’s father was an alcoholic which caused him to retire in 1914 in order to rehabilitate. He never got his old job back even though he tried to take treatment for his alcoholism. At this time, Amelia’s grandmother died and left a considerable amount of money in trust for her daughter.
IN 1915, Amelia’s father found a job as a clerk at the Great Northern Railway in St. Paul, Minnesota.World War I had begun and in 1917, Amelia began working as a nurse in the Spadina Military Hospital in Toronto, Ontario. She worked there till 1918. While working there, she once attended a flying exhibition. When the plane swept by her side, she stood her ground. And she was hooked on to flying.
In late 1920, she visited an airfield with her father. She rode on a plane for the first time and discovered that she would love to fly a plane. She worked as a truck driver and at a local telephone company to earn the $1000 for her flying lessons from Anita ‘Neta’ Snook.Six months later, she bought a second hand Kinner Airster biplane. In 1922 she flew the plane to an altitude of 14,000 feet setting a world record for women pilots. She became the 16th woman to earn her Pilot’s License in May 1923.
AMELIA EARHART’S FLYING CAREER • In late 1920, she visited an airfield with her father. She rode on a plane for the first time and discovered that she would love to fly a plane. She worked as a truck driver and at a local telephone company to earn the $1000 for her flying lessons from Anita ‘Neta’ Snook.Six months later, she bought a second hand Kinner Airster biplane. In 1922 she flew the plane to an altitude of 14,000 feet setting a world record for women pilots. She became the 16th woman to earn her Pilot’s License in May 1923.By 1927, Amelia had accumulated over 500 hours of flying, her skills and professionalism growing steadily
Share35 • The world's most famous female aviator disappeared in 1937, as she attempted to become the first woman to fly around the world. With her navigator, Fred Noonan, her Lockheed Electra was last heard from about 100 miles from the tiny Pacific atoll, Howland Island, on July 2, 1937. President Roosevelt authorized an immediate search; no trace was ever found. Over the years, the disappearance of Amelia Earhart has spawned almost as many conspiracy theories as the Lindbergh Kidnapping and the Kennedy Assasination. • She achieved a number of aviation records: • the first woman to fly across the Atlantic, in 1928 • the second person to fly solo across the Atlantic, in 1932 • the first person to solo from Hawaii to California, in 1935 • Guided by her publicist and husband, George Putnam, she made headlines in the era when aviation gripped the public's imagination. • Youth • Amelia Earhart was born on July 24, 1897 in Kansas, the daughter of Edwin and Amy Earhart. At the age of three, she was sent to live with her grandmother (her namesake), mainly because the old woman needed company and a distraction from the deaths of her mother, her son, and her daughter-in-law, as well as the poor mental condition of her husband Alfred. The grandparents (or grandmother) raised Amelia during her early childhood. She liked their home in Atchison, Kansas, especially her large bedroom with views of the nearby river, now a museum open to the public. She enjoyed her life with her grandparents: learning to read at five, and secure in a place where it seemed that almost everyone was family. But her grandmother was timid, and a worrier, and did not approve of Amelia's tomboy tendencies, so Amelia kept her pony-riding, tree-climbing, snow-sledding, and hunting activities to herself. Her parents were only 50 miles away, and she summered with them, so she remained close to them during these years.
