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Born July 24, 1897 in Atchison, Kansas
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attended Ogontz School near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Red Cross Nurse
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Learning to fly in California, she took up aviation as a hobby, taking odd jobs to pay for her flying lessons
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In 1922, with the financial help of her sister, Muriel, and her mother, Amy Otis Earhart, she purchased her first airplane, a Kinner Airster.
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Amelia was employed as a social worker in Denison House, in Boston, Massachusetts.
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First woman to cross the Atlanitc
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In 1931, Amelia married George Putnam.
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first woman to make a solo transatlantic flight in 1932
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began designing her own line of clothes "for the woman who lives actively."
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In 1935, Amelia became the first person to fly from Hawaii to the American mainland.
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Started to Fly Around the World
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On July 2, after completing nearly two-thirds of her historic flight -- over 22,000 miles -- Amelia vanished along with her navigator Frederick Noonan.
