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Common Ancestor

Father: William Stebbing
Black Notley, Essex,
England
1536 - 1602

Mother: Rose Rugle

Great Horkesley, Essex, Born: Died:
England July 24, 1897 July 2, 1937
1617 – 1690 Atchison, Kansas, USA Pacific Ocean

Amelia Mary Earhart was, born July 24, 1897 in
Atchison, Kansas. She was an American aviation
pioneer who set many flying records and wrote best-
selling books about her flying experiences. She was
also instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-
Nines, an organization for female pilots.

Earhart developed a passion for adventure at a young
age, steadily gaining flying experience from her
twenties. In 1928, Earhart became the first female
passenger to cross the Atlantic by airplane
(accompanying pilot Wilmer Stultz), for which she
achieved celebrity status. In 1932, piloting a Lockheed
Vega 5B, Earhart made a nonstop solo transatlantic
flight, becoming the first woman to achieve such a

feat. She received the United States Distinguished Flying Cross for this accomplishment. In
1935, Earhart became a visiting faculty member at Purdue University as an advisor
to aeronautical engineering and a career counselor to women students. She was also a member
of the National Woman's Party and an early supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment.

During an attempt to make a circumnavigational flight of the globe in 1937 in a Purdue-
funded Lockheed Model 10-E Electra, Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared over the
central Pacific Ocean near Howland Island.
Earhart was a widely known international celebrity during her lifetime. Her shyly charismatic
appeal, independence, persistence, coolness under pressure, courage and goal-oriented career
along with the circumstances of her disappearance at a comparatively early age, have driven

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