I.Early Life: Amelia Mary Earhart was born on July 24, 1897 at her grandparents' home in Atchison, Kansas. Amelia and her sister Muriel were to know privilege and wealth through their grandparents. They attended private schools and they enjoyed many of the comforts of life. Their father, Edwin Earhart, took an executive job in 1905 with the Rock Island Line Railroad in Des Moines, Iowa. The girls were left with their grandparents in Atchison. It was not till 1908 that the girls moved to Des Moines to be with their parents. Amelia was 10 years old when she saw her first airplane at the Iowa State Fair. She saw it as, "a thing of rusty wire and wood and not at all interesting." It would be more than a decade before Amelia's interest in aviation would be awakened. In 1914 the girls and their mother left Edwin after he was fired from The Rock Island RR, and went to live with friends in Chicago.…
