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BIOGRAPHY, AMELIA EARHART

Name of Persona: Amelia Earhart Picture:

Early life: She was born in Atchison, Kansas on

July 24, 1897, the daughter of a railroad
attorney, she spent her childhood in various
towns, including Atchison and Kansas City,
Kansas and Des Moines, lowa.

Major Accomplishment:
Family Life: The daughter of a
railroad attorney, after visiting her
sister, Muriel, in Toronto, Canada,
Amelia felt compelled to leave school.
Amelia’s parents insisted she move to
California where they were living.
Following her parent’s divorce,
Amelia moved back east where she
was employed as a social worker. Her
future husband, the publisher,
George Palmer Putnam.
- Selected to be the first female
passenger on a transatlantic flight.
- First person to fly from Hawaii to the
American mainland.
- First person to solo both the Atlantic
and Pacific Oceans.
- Enlisting as a nurse’s aide at Spadina
Hospital in Toronto, Canada, tended
wounded soldiers during World War I.

3 Interesting thing about the persona:

- She was the first woman to fly solo across the atlantic.
- Become the first person to fly from Hawaii to the American mainland.
- Amelia Earhart endures in the American consciousness as one of the
world’s most celebrated aviators.