Papers, 1944

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Papers, 1944

Addenda to the papers of Amy Otis Earhart, mother of aviator Amelia Earhart.

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Earhart, Amelia, 1897-1937

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Amelia Mary Earhart (AE) was born on July 24, 1897, in Atchison, Kansas, the first daughter of Amy (Otis) Earhart and Edwin Stanton Earhart. Her sister, Grace Muriel, was born three years later. The family moved several times (to Kansas City, Kansas; Des Moines; St. Paul; Chicago) during AE's childhood as her father tried unsuccessfully to establish a profitable legal career. AE graduated from Chicago's Hyde Park High School in 1916. ESE's increasing reliance on al...

Otis, Arthur Robert, b. 1894

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AMY (OTIS) EARHART, 1869-1962

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For biography of AOE, see inventory of AOE Papers, MC 398 . From the guide to the Papers, 1944, (Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute) Amy Otis was born in 1869, the second of six surviving children of Alfred Gideon and Amelia J. (Harres) Otis. Alfred Otis was a Kansas state judge and politician; he later became a U.S. District Court judge, and was chief warden of the Trinity Episcopal Church in Atchison, where the Otis family lived. Amelia Otis...