Family background of amelia earhart Amelia Mary Earhart is an American aviator and author, who disappeared on July 2, 1937 on the Pacific Ocean due to insufficient plane gas that resulted to a crash, on her route to Howland Island from Lae, Papua New Guinea. Amelia Mary Earhart was born to Amelia Otis and Samuel Stanton Earhart, a lawyer on July 24, 1897 on Atchison, Kansas on the home of her maternal grandfather, Alfred Gideon Otis. Amelia was the second child of the couple, next to her sister, Grace Muriel Earhart and was named after two grandmothers, Amelia Josephine Harres and Mary Wells Patton. Alfred first disapproved the marriage and was not satisfied with Samuels progress as a lawyer. From an early age, Amelia became the ringleader and her sister on the other hand, became the obedient and dutiful daughter. She was nicknamed "Meeley", and her sister, "Pidge". Raising the two girls into proper adulthood became uncomfortable and unconventional for Amelia...