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According to family custom, Amelia Earhart was named after her two grandmothers Amelia Josephine Harres and Mary Wells Patton. [11] 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]
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.
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 ]
The Earhart's lived at 1443 8th Street, Des Moines, from 1908-1909. The house, built in 1889, still stands as a residential home
In 2013, Earhart started the Fly With Amelia Foundation, which grants flight scholarships to girls aged 16–18. [4] Earhart was told by family members in her youth that she was a descendant of Amelia Mary Earhart. [5] When she was in college, she hired a genealogist to research her connection to Amelia Earhart.
A recently resurfaced photograph may have finally solved the 77-year-old mystery of Amelia Earhart's disappearance. An image, taken by the Miami Herald just moments before Earhart took off for her ...
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 ...
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]