Amelia Mary Earhart was born on July 24, 1897, the daughter of Edwin and Amy Otis Earhart. Until she was twelve she lived with her wealthy maternal grandparents, Alfred and Amelia Harres Otis, in Atcheson, Kansas, where she attended a private school.

Who was the mother that raised Amelia? How did this mother come to terms with the disappearance of her daughter? Amy Otis Earhart was born in 1869 to Alfred and Amelia Otis. She was the second child of six surviving children. She married Edwin Stanton Earhart in 1895 and moved with him to Kansas.

It is this family that Amelia Earhart was born into. Two strong parents who came from different worlds. A mother who summited Pikes Peak; a father who worked hard to elevate his position. Without understanding Amelia’s parents, we are not able to understand the world in which she and her sister would grow up.

2025年2月11日 · Earhart’s father was a railroad lawyer, and her mother came from an affluent family. While still a child, Earhart displayed an adventurous and independent nature for which she would later become known.

2024年1月30日 · Amelia Earhart was born on July 24, 1897, in Atchison, Kansas. Earhart spent much of her early childhood in the upper-middle-class household of her maternal grandparents. Earhart’s mother,...

Amy Otis Earhart was born to Alfred and Amelia Otis in 1869 in Atchison, Kansas. Alfred Otis was a state judge and politician, who later rose to the ranks of a U.S. District Court judge. Amy Otis married lawyer Edwin Stanton Earhart in 1895.

Amelia Mary Earhart is born in Atchison, Kansas, to parents Amy Otis and Edwin Stanton Earhart. Her sister, Muriel, is born two years later. Amelia lives primarily with her maternal...

MOTHER; Amelia (Amy)Otis Earhart Amy Otis was born in 1869, the second of six surviving children of Alfred Gideon and Amelia J. (Harres) Otis. The Earharts moved to Kansas City, where they lived for the next ten years, during which they had two daughters: Amelia Mary (1897) and Grace Muriel (1899).

When her parents divorced in 1924, Earhart moved with her mother and sister to Massachusetts and became a settlement worker at Dennison House in Boston, while also flying in air shows.

In June 1924, she drove cross-country with her mother from Los Angeles to Medford, Massachusetts, stopping along the way to visit several national parks (1924). She and her mother then moved in with Earhart's sister Muriel, in Medford, Massachusetts.