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  • Story: Charles Augustus Lindbergh - Ancestry - Canada

    <p><strong>Charles Lindbergh</strong> </p><p>The descendants of the Hamilton branch of the Land family scattered to other parts of Canada, and some returned to the States. One of these was Charles H. Land, a grandson of Ephraim, the son of Robert I, who moved to Detroit, the place his grand-uncle, Robert II, had helped to capture from the Americans in 1812. There he made his home and practised as a dentist. </p><p>His daughter, Evangeline, married a man named Lindbergh. Their son, Charles Augustus Lindbergh, was the aviator who on May 21, 1927, at the age of 25, made the famous non-stop solo flight in the &quot;Spirit of St. Louis&quot;, from New York to Paris. Matching his courage and resourcefulness against the chancy forces of Nature, the young aviator flew through fog, sleet and fair weather, serenely unaware of the interest he was arousing. He actually carried letters of introduction, lest the people at his destination might not believe who he was! For this daring exploit, which outclassed the pioneer Atlantic crossing of the Britishers, Alcock and Brown, from Newfoundland to Ireland in 1919, he received the Orteig award of $25,000, the admiration of the world, the overwhelming adulation of the United States, and was given the rank of colonel. </p><p>Colonel Lindbergh is thus a direct descendant six times removed of our Robert Land I, who had to flee for his life from the States during the Revolution. </p><p>In 1932 his name was associated with a domestic tragedy that stirred the whole continent. His infant son was kidnapped, and although ransom was paid to the abductor by the frenzied parents the child was deliberately murdered. In consequence, Bruno Richard Hauptman was arrested, and after a trial lasting six weeks at the assizes of Flemington, N.J., he was convicted by a jury on which four women served, and suffered the penalty of death.</p><font face="Arial,Verdana,Helvetica" size="-1" color="#000000"><font size="+1"><strong>Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Aviator</strong> </font><br><font size="+0">February 01, 1902 - August 04, 1974 </font></font><div align="center"></div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br><br><font face="Arial,Verdana,Helvetica" size="-1" color="#000000"><p align="justify">Charles Lindbergh, aviator, engineer, and Pulitzer Prize winner, was the first person to make a nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic. He made his historic flight on May 20-21, 1927. The feat gained him immediate, international fame. The press named him &quot;Lucky Lindy&quot; and the &quot;Lone Eagle.&quot; Americans and Europeans idolized the shy, slim young man and showered him with honors. Born on February 4, 1902, in Detroit, Lindbergh showed exceptional mechanical ability from childhood. The son of a Swedish immigrant, Charles August &quot;C.A.&quot; Lindbergh, and his second wife, Evangeline Land, young Charles had a rootless and somewhat solitary childhood. For many years he and his mother moved between their primary home in Little Falls, Minnesota, her family&#39;s house in Detroit, and Washington, D.C., where his Congressman father spent a most of his time. Charles had no siblings his age (two much older half-sisters) and few close friends his own age. He learned to love nature, the outdoors, solitude, and developed a passion for collecting and analyzing things. At the age of 18 years, he entered the University of Wisconsin to study engineering. However, Lindbergh was more interested in the exciting, young field of aviation than he was in school. After two years, he left school to earn his pilot&#39;s license. In 1923, he bought a Jenny and took up barnstorming, performing stunts at fairs. In 1924, Lindbergh entered a U.S. Army flying school at San Antonio, Texas so that he could be trained as an Army Air Service Reserve pilot. He graduated first in his class the following year, and then was hired to fly the mail between St. Louis and Chicago by the Robertson Aircraft Corporation of St. Louis He gained a reputation as a cautious and capable pilot. He also became the first three-time member of the Caterpillar Club, that exclusive fraternity of people who had saved their lives with parachutes. While he loved flying of any sort, he found the airmail routine to be tedious. In 1919, a New York City hotel owner named Raymond Orteig offered $25,000 to the first aviator to fly non-stop from New York to Paris. Several pilots were killed or injured while competing for the Orteig prize. By 1927, it had still not been won. Lindbergh believed he could win it if he had the right airplane. He persuaded nine St. Louis businessmen to help him finance the cost of a plane. Lindbergh chose Ryan Aeronautical Company of San Diego to manufacture a special plane, which he helped design. He named the plane the Spirit of St. Louis. Essentially, the Spirit of St. Louis was a custom-built airplane, designed expressly to fly Lindbergh across the Atlantic. Lindbergh sacrificed every possible bit of weight for more fuel capacity. No parachute, no radio, no brakes, not even a forward-facing window (a small periscope would do). Twenty-seven feet long, as the design evolved, the wings grew to forty-five feet, to help lift the 2700 pounds (400+ gallons) of gas. The rest of the airplane, the engine, and its pilot only weighed about 2500 pounds. Powered by a state-of-the-art 223hp Wright Whirlwind J-5C engine, the plane could cruise for 4,200 miles. On May 10-11, 1927, Lindbergh tested the plane by flying from San Diego to New York City, with an overnight stop in St. Louis. The flight took 20 hours 21 minutes, a transcontinental record. On May 20, Lindbergh took off in the Spirit of St. Louis from Roosevelt Field, on Long Island, at 7:52 A.M. For food, he brought five sandwiches. &quot;If I get to Paris, I won&#39;t need any more. And if I don&#39;t get to Paris, I won&#39;t need any more, either,&quot; Lindbergh noted drily Encountering fog and sleet, he had to fly blind part of the way at an altitude of 1500 feet. At times he flew only 10 feet above the waves. Sighting the coast of Ireland, he turned south towards France. He flew over England and the Channel, and sighted the lights of Paris at 10 o&#39;clock. He shortly touched down at Paris&#39; Le Bourget Field, near Paris, on May 21 at 10:21 P.M. Paris time (5:21 P.M. New York time) 33 hours and 30 minutes after he left Long Island. He had covered a distance of 3,610 miles. By making the flight, Lindbergh collected Orteig&#39;s $25,000 prize. Thousands of cheering people had gathered to meet him. Lindbergh became an international hero, and the most famous man in the world. He was honoured with awards, celebrations, and parades. At the request of the U.S. government, Lindbergh flew to various Latin-American countries in December 1927 as a symbol of American good will. While in Mexico, he met Anne Spencer Morrow, the daughter of Dwight W. Morrow, the American ambassador there. Lindbergh married Anne Morrow in 1929. He taught her to fly, and they went on many flying expeditions together throughout the world, which Anne later described in North to the Orient. Anne Morrow Lindbergh also became famous for her poetry and other writings. In 1930 their first child, Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr., was born. In 1932 the 19-month-old was kidnapped and murdered, attracting nationwide attention. A German-born carpenter, Bruno Hauptmann, was later found guilty of the crime and executed. The press sensationalized the tragedy. Reporters, photographers, and curious onlookers pestered the Lindberghs constantly. In 1935, after the Hauptmann trial, Lindbergh, his wife, and their 3-year-old son, Jon, moved to Europe in search of privacy and safety. In 1938, while traveling in Europe, he visited Germany and was very impressed by the newly dynamic, and militaristic state. During this visit, Herman Goering presented Lindbergh with the Verdienstkreuz Deutscher Adler, the Service Cross of the German Eagle, a medal adorned with swastikas. He accepted the decoration and praised the German air force as superior to that of any other European country. Lindbergh&#39;s acceptance of the medal caused an outcry in the United States among critics of Nazism. On his return to the U.S., in 1939, Lindbergh toured the country and made a series of antiwar speeches. He was criticized as being pro-German and was forced to resign his commission in the air corps reserve and his membership in the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. Pearl Harbor changed everything. Lindbergh realized that neutrality was no longer possible. He immediately applied for reinstatement in the Army Air Corps but was blocked by President Roosevelt due to his previous anti war leanings.Anxious to contribute in any way possible, Lindbergh sought a position in private industry, he served as a technical adviser and test pilot for the Ford Motor Company and United Aircraft Corporation (now United Technologies Corporation). In April 1944, Lindbergh went to the Pacific war area as an adviser to the United States Army and Navy. Although he was a civilian, he flew about 50 combat missions. Lindbergh also developed cruise control techniques that increased the capabilities of American fighter planes. After the war, he avoided publicity until the late 1960&#39;s, when he spoke out for the conservation of natural resources. Lindbergh served as an adviser in the aviation industry from the days of wood and wire airplanes to supersonic jets. He died of cancer on August 26, 1974, in his home on Maui, Hawaii. Lindbergh&#39;s writings include the story of his historic flight, We (1927); his autobiography, The Spirit of St. Louis (1953; Pulitzer Prize, 1954); and The Wartime Journals of Charles A. Lindbergh (1970). Lindbergh also collaborated with the French surgeon Alexis Carrel in experiments to develop an artificial heart pump. Despite early promising results the experiments were finally given up without entirely achieving their purpose. The two men were coauthors of The Culture of Organs (1938). The Autobiography of Values, a collection of Lindbergh&#39;s writings, was published in 1978. </p></font>

 
 
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