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George Palmer Putnam (September 7, 1887 – January 4, 1950) was an American publisher, writer and explorer. Known for his marriage to (and being the widower of) Amelia Earhart, he had also achieved fame as one of the most successful promoters in the United States during the 1930s.
George Palmer Putnam's grandson and namesake, George P. Putnam (1887–1950), was part of the family business but was also an author and explorer whose first wife was Dorothy Binney, the daughter of Edwin Binney who founded Crayola; after their divorce, he married the famous aviator Amelia Earhart. [7]
Amelia Mary Earhart was born on July 24, 1897, in Atchison, Kansas, as the daughter of Samuel "Edwin" Stanton Earhart (1867–1930) and Amelia "Amy" (née Otis; 1869–1962). [9] Amelia was born in the home of her maternal grandfather Alfred Gideon Otis (1827–1912), who was a former judge in Kansas, the president of Atchison Savings Bank, and ...
“Women must try to do things as men have tried,” she once wrote to her husband, the publishing scion George Putnam. ... In his 1966 book The Search for Amelia Earhart, San Francisco radio ...
Amelia Earhart made history by becoming the first female aviator to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean. A female icon and celebrated author, she promoted commercial air travel and wrote ...
[45] [46] By November 1930, George Putnam and Amelia Earhart had a marriage license, though Earhart denied the wedding took place; [47] in February 1931 Earhart and George Putnam were married. [32] By then, Dorothy Binney Upton and her husband Frank Monroe Upton had moved to Fort Pierce, Florida.
Amelia Earhart took to the skies in 1921, but did you know she saw her first plane at 10 years old when she lived in Des Moines? Earhart was born in Atchison, Kansas, in 1897 to her parents, Amy ...
George P. Putnam (1887–1950), publisher, author, explorer, grandson of George Palmer Putnam, husband of Amelia Earhart; George Washington Putnam (1826–1899), American soldier and politician; George Putnam (businessman), founder of Putnam Investments George Putnam III, his grandson, editor and founder of The Turnaround Letter