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Muriel Earhart Morrissey (December 29, 1899 – March 2, 1998), the younger sister of aviator Amelia Earhart, was a high school teacher, author, and activist. [1] After her sister disappeared on a flight across the Pacific in 1937, Earhart spent decades biographing Amelia's life and managing her legacy. [2]
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.
From an early age, Amelia was the dominant sibling while her sister Grace Muriel Earhart (1899–1998), two years her junior, acted as a dutiful follower. [13] Amelia was nicknamed "Meeley" and sometimes "Millie", and Grace was nicknamed "Pidge"; both girls continued to answer to their childhood nicknames well into adulthood. [ 11 ]
Her sister was social worker and federal labor official Dorothea de Schweinitz. She graduated from Smith College in 1918, [5] attended Columbia University in 1919 and 1920, where she was a classmate and friend of Amelia Earhart, [6] [7] and earned her medical degree at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 1924. [8]
An Oregon-based archeologist is the latest scientist attempting to find Amelia Earhart’s long-lost plane and solve the baffling 88-year mystery surrounding her and flight navigator Fred Noonan ...
American female aviator Amelia Earhart stands in front of her plane. In 1937, with navigator Fred Noonan, she set out to fly around the world. But, their plane was lost over the Pacific in July ...
Amelia Earhart poses with her Lockheed Vega, the aircraft that helped many pilots in the late 1920s and 1930s set flying records. The Vega could fly fast and had a long range, which is why Earhart ...
Dorothy was one of the people financially supporting Earhart's transatlantic flight, [20] and Earhart stayed at a hotel using the name Dorothy Binney as a ruse to remain anonymous before the transatlantic flight. [33] In June 1928 Earhart became the first woman to fly, as a passenger, [34] across the Atlantic. [35]