by Susan Butler
I want to thank Helen Day Bible, and her family. The letters from Fred Noonan to Helen were donated by her as her small contribution to the history of aviation. Kenneth Clapp gave me some wonderful photos from the collection of his mother, Janet Mabie and permitted me to be the first biographer to quote from her unpublished biography of Amelia Earhart. I am also grateful to the Columbia University Oral History Collection for permission to quote from the oral histories of Muriel Earhart Morrissey, Blanche Noyes, Richard Blackburn Black, Harry A. Bruno, Ruth Nichols, and James Joseph Clark.
I want to thank Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College, for permission to quote from the Denison House records, the Amy Otis Earhart papers, the Janet Mabie papers, and the records of the Women’s Educational and Industrial Union. At the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Robert Parks initiated me into the intricacies of the various collections. Claudia Spencer, of the Atchison Public Library, was unstintingly generous of her time and the library’s resources. Joan Hrubek opened the files of the International Women’s Air and Space Museum to me. Loretta Gregg, president of the Ninety Nines, patiently responded to all my inquiries. Doris Pearson, secretary of the Board of Trustees at Purdue University; Bill Griegs of the Purdue Research Foundation; and Katherine M. Markee, Purdue Special Collections & Archives supplied much information, as did Louise Foudray, director of the Amelia Earhart Birthplace Museum in Atchison; Paul Palmer at Columbia University; and Anne M. Gefell, who presides over the Oral History Research Office at Columbia University. At the National Air and Space Museum Larry Wilson helped me find the files I needed; Nora Walkup aided me at the Federal Aviation Administration. At the Hyde Park High School Tom Staniszewski provided all the information the school possessed, as well as Amelia’s yearbook photo. Peter Filardo guided me in the Tamiment Library at New York University, Paul Vesiopi supplied information about Greenwich House. At the Provincial Archives of Newfoundland and Labrador Howard Brown, archivist, helped me. The New York Public Library with its excellent staff (particularly Philip Yockey) and extraordinary holdings was a great resource.
For an understanding of latitude and longitude I want to thank Richard Newick; for help on medical matters, Joel A. Danisi. For keeping my nose to the grindstone I must thank Pat Beard.
At Addison-Wesley I owe thanks to Liz Maguire, Lynne Reed and to Albert De Petrillo. I was very fortunate to have Albert De Petrillo as my editor; his enthusiasm, editing skills, and focus on the many details involved in pulling the book together were crucial. I also owe thanks to my agent Julian Bach and his very able assistant, Carolyn Krupp.
And I couldn’t have done it without the support and encouragement of my husband, Allan Churchill Butler. The book took years and he was always behind me.
Index
Acosta, Bert
Adams, Eustace
Adams, Porter
Aerial refueling
Aero Club of America
Aero Club of Southern California
Aeronautical Digest
Aeronautical Hall of Fame
Africa, Amelia’s flight across
Air mail
Air shows/races . See also Bendix air race; National Air Races and Aeronautical Exposition; Women’s Air Derby
Airline Pilots Association
Air-marking program
Airplane engines . See also Wright Whirlwind airplane engines
Airster. see Kinner Airster
Aldrin, Edwin
Allen, Carl
as adviser to Amelia on marriage
Amelia described by
opposed to Amelia’s circumnavigation
Allen, Cecil
Alstulund, Nora
America (airplane)
America (ship)
American Woman’s Association (AWA)
Andrews, Roy Chapman
Antich, Patricia
Aoki, Fukiko
Appleyard, William
Archibald, Rose
Arnold, Henry (Hap)
Arnold, Lt.
Asia, Amelia’s flight across
Astor, Nancy
“Atalanta in Calydon
Atchison, David Rice
Atchison, Kansas
Amelia’s childhood in
Amelia’s visit, 1933
Earhart museum in
history of
Atlantic flights. See also Friendship flight across Atlantic
commercial
unsuccessful
women’s solo attempts
Australia
Autogiro airplane
Avro Avian airplane
Baker, Frank
Balch, Earl
Balch, Emily
Balchen, Bernt
Baldwin, Herbert
Balis, Clarence
Balis, Margaret (Otis)
Amelia at Ogontz school and
death of mother and
at Lake George
Otis family financial affairs and
Balis, Nancy. See Morse, Nancy Balis
Ball, Daisy Elizabeth
Barnard College speech
Barnes, Pancho
Barnes, Peter
Batten, Jean
Battison, Wallace
Bayles, Lowell
Beachey, Lincoln
Beebe, William
Beech-Nut Company
Beinhorn, Elly
Belinn, Clarence
Belknap, Reginald R.
Bendix, Vincent
Bendix air race
Bendix radio direction finder. See Radio equipment
Bennett, Floyd
Bevan, Ernest
Bible, Helen Day. See Day, Helen
Black, Richard B.
Blanco, Josephine
Blodgett, Marion
Bly, Nellie
Boardman, Russell
Bogie game
Boll, Mabel
Boston, Massachusetts
Amelia in flying community of
Amelia’s years in
Friendship flight and
Boston Evening Transcript, The
Boston Globe, The
Bostonian, The
Boston-Maine Airways
Bourdon, Allan P.
Bournewood Hospital (Brookline, Massachusetts)
Brady, Austin C.
Brandreth, Jean
Brashay, Mary
Brock, William
Bromwell, Laura
Brown, Margaret
Brown, Postmaster General
Browne, Nathan
Bruno, Harry
Bryn Mawr College (Pennsylvania)
Burry Port, Wales
Burse, Johanna
Byrd, Richard E.
America flight across Atlantic
commercial endorsements by
educational background
Friendship flight role
Cambridge analyzer
Campbell, Mary
Campbell, Robert L.
Canuck airplane
Carrel, Alexis
Caterpillar Club
Central Airlines
Challiss, Jack
Challiss, James
Challiss, Kathryn (Katch)
adult visits with Amelia
as childhood friend of Amelia
marriage of
opinion of Edwin Earhart
as source
Challiss, Lucy (Toot)
as Amelia’s secretary
attitude toward marriage of
as childhood friend of Amelia
as source
at Wheaton College
Challiss, Mary Ann (Harres)
Challiss, Peggy
Challiss, Rilla
Challiss, William
Chamberlin, Clarence
Chapman, Sam
Chater, Eric
Chicago, Illinois
Christensen, Captain
Christopher, Luke
Circumnavigators Club
Clark, Everett
Clarke, Frank
Clark, J. J.
> Clay, Harry
Clisby, Harriet
Cloudster airplane
Clover, Willis
Cochran, Jacqueline
Cohen, Emanuel
Coli, François
College Preparatory School (Atchison, Kansas)
Collins, Paul
at Boston-Maine Airways
as New York, Philadelphia and Washington Airway vice president
as possible circumnavigation navigator
troubled call from Amelia on circumnavigation and
Collopy James A.
Columbia (airplane)
for Boll’s proposed Atlantic flight
Chamberlin’s flight to Germany on
in National Air Races
Columbia University (New York)
Coman, Katherine
Commercial Aircraft Association of Southern California
Condon, James D.
Cone, J. Carroll
Conference on Current Problems
Conroy, Elizabeth
Cook, Admiral
Coolidge, Jake
Coolidge, Phil
Cooper, Daniel
Copeland, Frank
Cosmopolitan
Crosby Katherine
Crosson, Marvel
Curtiss Flying Service
Curtiss Jenny airplane
Curtiss School of Aviation
Dade, George
Darrow, Daniel
Daugherty, Earl
Daugherty airfield
Davidson, Gordon
Davis, David R.
Day, Helen
friendship with Noonan
Noonan’s letters to
De Schweinitz, Louise
De Sibour, Jacques
De Sibour, Violette
Denison House
Dennison, Harold T.
Dennison Aircraft Corporation
Dennison Airport
Des Moines, Iowa
Devereaux, Richard and Fanny
Dewson, Mary
Diehl, John
Dillenz
Direction finders. See Radio equipment
Dolan, Katherine
Doolittle, James (Jimmy)
Dorey Halstead
Double Dee Ranch (Wyoming)
Douglas, Donald
Dunrud, Carl
Dwiggins, Don
Earhart, Amelia
adolescence
in air races/shows
air records of
Atlantic crossing on Friendship. See Friendship flight across Atlantic
Atlantic solo flight
attitude towards men/marriage
Avian airplane owned by
awards in honor of
birth and baptism
blind flying by
in Boston, Massachusetts. See Boston, Massachusetts
as Boston-Maine Airways partner
Chapman, Sam, as fiance. See Chapman, Sam
childhood
as clothes designer
commercial endorsements by
death of
deaths of friends and
as Dennison Airport employee
education
family history xi
fashion image
father, relationship with. See Earhart, Edwin
financial backers of flights
financial problems
first exposure to airplanes
first paying job
first solo flight
flying lessons taken by
flying outfits
flying school of
health
honors bestowed on
investment in United Air Services
Kinner Airsters owned by
at Lake George
as lecturer
Lockheed Electra airplane owned by
in Los Angeles, California. See Los Angeles, California
marriage to G. P. Putnam. See Putnam, George Palmer
medical career plans
Mexican flight of
mother, relationship with. See Earhart, Amy (Otis)
musical talent
as New York, Philadelphia and Washington Airways vice president
in Northampton, Massachusetts
nursing work of
Pacific flights. See also World circumnavigation flight, Earhart’s
photography career plans
pilot’s license
“popping off” letters
as Purdue University staff member
in Rye, New York. See Rye, New York
searches for
as social worker
as teacher
in Toronto, Canada
as Transcontinental Air Transport employee
transcontinental flights
trucking company of
Vega airplanes owned by
Vidal, Eugene, relationship to. See Vidal, Eugene (Gene)
wills of
women pilots organization and. See Ninety-Nines organization
women’s issues and
world circumnavigation flight of. See World circumnavigation flight, Earhart’s
in World War I
World’s Fair trip
as writer . See also Fun of It, The; 20 Hrs. 40 Min., Our Flight in the Friendship
Earhart, Amy (Otis)
Amelia, relationship with
Amelia’s birth and
Amelia’s Friendship flight and
Amelia’s letters to
in Boston, Massachusetts
in Chicago, Illinois
childhood and youth of
deaths of parents
in Des Moines, Iowa
divorce from Edwin
financial affairs of
in Kansas City, Kansas
marriage to Edwin
Muriel, relationship with
in Northampton, Massachusetts
social pretensions of
in St. Paul, Minnesota
support for Amelia’s flying by
in Toronto, Canada
Earhart, David
Earhart, Edwin
alcoholism of
Amelia, relationship with
Amelia’s Friendship flight and
career of
childhood and youth of
divorce from Amy
family background of
in Los Angeles, California
marriage to Amy
Muriel, relationship with
widow of
Earhart, Helen
Earhart, Muriel
adolescence
Amelia’s Friendship flight and
Amelia’s support of
birth
childhood
education
father, relationship with. See Earhart, Edwin
marriage of
mother, relationship with. See Earhart, Amy (Otis)
as source
as teacher
at World’s Fair
Earhart-Mantz Flying School
Edison, Charles
Elder, Ruth
Electra airplane. See Lockheed Electra airplane
Elliott, Edward C.
Ellsworth, Lincoln
Elmer, Robert
England
Friendship landing in
post-Atlantic solo flight visit to
Exupéry, Antoine de Saint
Finch, Linda
First-day covers (stamps)
Fisher, Norman
Fiske, Gardiner H.
Fitzgerald, Marian
“Flight to Freedom,”
Fokker airplane
Folz, Edith
Fortaleza, Brazil
Fox, Marjorie and Virginia
France, post-Atlantic solo flight visit to
Friendship flight across Atlantic. See also Gordon, Louis (Slim); Stultz, Wilmer (Bill); 20 Hrs. 40 Min., Our Flight in the Friendship
airplane modified for
Amelia recruited for
Amelia’s fame after
Amelia’s pre
paration for
Amy Guest’s plans for
Boston takeoff attempts
Byrd’s role in. See Byrd, Richard
England, landing in
flight to Newfoundland
flight to Europe
Fokker chosen as aircraft for
layover in Newfoundland
Putnam’s role in. See Putnam, George Palmer
return to United States
rival flights
subterfuge regarding
Fulgoni, Andy
Fun of It, The
Gallagher, James
Gatty, Harold
Gaylord, Charlie
Gee Bee racer airplane
Gehlbach, Lee
Gentry Viola
Gilbreth, Lillian
Gill, Burnham
Gill, Fred
Gillies, Jack
Gillis, Fay See FayGillis Wells
Glendale airfield
Glick, George
Goebel, Arthur
Goerner, Fred
Goodwin, Doris Kearns
Gordon, Louis (Slim)
as Friendship co-pilot
Friendship flight salary
Friendship flight to Newfoundland
Friendship layover in Newfoundland
Friendship arrival in England
Friendship post-flight tour
Gorski, Eddie
Gower, Lou
Grayson, Frances Wilson
Greenwich House (New York City)
Grooch, Ernest
Grooch, William
Ground loops
Guest, Amy Phipps
Guest, Frederick
Guest, Winston
Guinea Airways
Gulick, William
Haizlip, James
Haldeman, George
Hamilton, Alice
Hamilton, Leslie
Harres, Charles
Harres, Gebhard
Harres, John
Harres, Maria Grace
Harres, Theodore
Harris, Harold R.
Hart, William S.
Harts, William W, Jr.
Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
Harvey, Sidney
Haviland, Ruth
Hawes, Elizabeth
Hawks, Frank
Heath, Mary
Hegenberger, Albert
Hemingway Mary Welch
Henderson, Clifford
Hewitt, Joseph
Hickok, Lorena
Hillsdale, Maude
Hinchcliffe, Walter
Holmes, Christian
Hoppe, Annabel
Horchem, Bertha
Howard, Benny and Maxine (Mike)
Howland Island
Hughes, Howard
Hunt, Roy
Huzar, Aloysia McLintic . See Aloysia McLintic
Hyde Park High School (Chicago, Illinois)