Amelia Earhart was born on July 24, 1897 and lived on her grandparents' home
in Atchison, Kansas with her sister Muriel. They both went to private schools and
Amelia graduated from Hyde Park School in 1916.
In the fall of 1919 Amelia enrolled as a pre-med student at Columbia University.
In 1920, she decided to join her mother and her father in California. But her sisters did
not want to join them.
Several months after her arrival in California Amelia and her father went to the
"aerial meet" at Daugherty Field in Long Beach.…
