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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.
[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 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 ...
Earhart boarded a Lockheed Model 10-E Electra airplane alongside her navigator, Fred Noonan. The pair were last seen in Law, New Guinea, where they made their last stop before the incident.
“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 did not simply vanish on July 2, 1937. Radio distress calls believed to have been sent from the missing plane dominated the headlines and drove much of the U.S. Coast Guard and ...
Putnam married Victorine Haven; their marriage produced seven sons and four daughters. Their daughter, Mary Corinna Putnam (1842–1906), was a pioneering female doctor, the first woman admitted to the Faculté de Médecine de Paris. One of their sons, Herbert Putnam (1861–1955), became a noted librarian who served as the Librarian of ...
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