Amelia Mary Earhart

Place: Atchison

Born: 1897

Death: 1939

Biography:

Amelia Mary Earhart was an American aviation pioneer who disappeared over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to become the first female pilot to circumnavigate the world. She was a celebrity, women's rights advocate, and one of the most-inspirational American figures from the late 1920s and throughout the 1930s.