Amelia Earhart

Intro/Description

Did you know who made nineteen accomplishments before she went missing…? That amazing woman is Amelia Mary Earhart. Amelia was an author who wrote best-selling books and a women’s clothes designer whose clothes were sold in fancy department stores. She was also a generous social worker that flew over Boston to distribute flyers for a fundraiser and a determined feminist that swore never to rely on a man. But mainly she was an American aviation pioneer. She was an inspiration to all female pilots and aviators.

Personal Info

This is Amelia Mary Earhart’s personal information. She was born on July

24,1897 at 11:30 p.m. Earhart’s birthplace is her mother’s parent’s house,

four-hundred feet above the Missouri River in Atchison, Kansas, United States. Mary’s parents are Amelia Otis Earhart and Samuel Stanton Earhart. Her younger sister is Grace Muriel Earhart. Amelia was homeschooled by her mother and governess until she reached the age of 12. When she arrived at that age, she enrolled into a public school in Chicago for seventh grade. After that, she went to Hyde Park High School in Chicago at the age 17 and graduated in 1916. The same year, Amelia started Ogontz School, a junior college, in Rydal, Pennsylvania. By February, she told her mother that she was going to quit school. At first, Earhart was engaged to Samuel Chapman, but then she broke off the engagement on November 3, 1928. During that time, Mary was spending a great deal of time with George Palmer Putnam. After refusing six marriage proposals from George, Amelia finally agreed to marry him. That was her personal information.

Accomplishments

Amelia Mary Earhart made many accomplishments before she went missing. In 1928, she published and wrote 20 Hrs., 40 Min. An achievement, also in 1928, is that she set the woman’s world altitude record of 14,000 feet. Also, in 1928, she was the first woman to fly the Atlantic. Plus, in 1931, Amelia had speed records of 100 kilometers with a 500 pound (230 kilogram) cargo. The same year, she accomplished being the first woman to fly an autogyro. She made an altitude record of 15,000 feet for autogyros in 1931. Along with the previous achievement, Mary was the first person to fly across the United States in an autogyro in 1932. In that same year, Amelia was the first woman to fly the Atlantic solo; likewise, the first person to fly the Atlantic solo twice. Then she wrote and published another book, The Fun of It, in the year of the antecedent. In 1932, Earhart was the first woman to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross. Another achievement, in 1933, is that she was the first woman to fly coast-to-coast across the United States. The women’s speed transcontinental record was broken by Amelia in 1933. Mary became the first person to fly a solo, in 1935, between Honolulu, Hawaii and Oakland, California. In 1935, she did another solo flight between Los Angeles, California and Mexico City, Mexico, making her the first person to do that. Additionally, she was the first person to fly a nonstop solo from Mexico City, Mexico to Newark, New Jersey and that occurred in 1935. Her third and last book, The Last Flight, was written and published in 1937. The last achievement is that Earhart set a speed record, an east-to-west flight, from Oakland, California to Honolulu, Hawaii in the year of the foregoing. Those were Amelia’s multitudinous accomplishments.