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Amelia Earhart lived in Medford while working as a social worker in 1925. Elizabeth Short, the victim of an infamous Hollywood murder and who became known as The Black Dahlia, was born in Hyde Park (the southernmost neighborhood of the city of Boston, Massachusetts) but raised in Medford before going to the West Coast looking for fame.
Muriel Earhart Morrissey (December 29, 1899 – March 2, 1998), the younger sister of aviator Amelia Earhart, was a high school teacher, author, and activist. [1] After her sister disappeared on a flight across the Pacific in 1937, Earhart spent decades biographing Amelia's life and managing her legacy. [2]
In 1927, a small civilian airfield was established at Squantum near the intersection of East Squantum Street and Quincy Shore Drive. Amelia Earhart, when she lived in Medford, Massachusetts, was a share-holding director and helped finance the construction of the airport.
Amelia Earhart, one of the most famous women who ever took flight, once lived in Des Moines. ... Des Moines, in 1911. The house, which no longer stands, was a gas station from at least 1999 to ...
Amelia Earhart poses with her Lockheed Vega, the aircraft that helped many pilots in the late 1920s and 1930s set flying records. The Vega could fly fast and had a long range, which is why Earhart ...
“An Astonishing Ocean Discovery May Have Just Ended the 86-Year Search for Amelia Earhart,” wrote this magazine. “3 Miles Down, a Potential Clue to Earhart’s Fate” reported the New York ...
Amelia Mary Earhart was born on July 24, 1897, in Atchison, Kansas, as the daughter of Samuel "Edwin" Stanton Earhart (1867–1930) and Amelia "Amy" (née Otis; 1869–1962). [9] Amelia was born in the home of her maternal grandfather Alfred Gideon Otis (1827–1912), who was a former judge in Kansas, the president of Atchison Savings Bank, and ...
Denison House was established in 1892, donated by Cornelia Warren, [1] as one of the earliest branches of the College Settlements Association. [note 1] The CSA had been founded in 1887 by a small group of Wellesley College faculty and alumnae including noted pacifist Emily Greene Balch, labor organizer Vida Scudder, and the writer and college professor Katharine Lee Bates. [2]