Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh, Author and Aviator
9th Cousin, two times removed
Anne Morrow Lindbergh was a pioneering aviator, author and poet (June 22, 1906 – February 7, 2001). She was the wife of famed aviation pioneer Charles Lindbergh. Born in Englewood, New Jersey, her father was Dwight Whitney Morrow, an American diplomat and United States Senator. In 1927, her father was the American Ambassador to Mexico when Charles Lindbergh made his famous solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean. Ambassador Morrow wrote Lindbergh, inviting him to make a good will tour of Mexico and South America, which Lindbergh accepted. He met Anne Spencer Morrow for the first time in Mexico City, and he would later state that he was impressed by her quick mind and fearlessness. Their courtship soon became internationally celebrated.
After their marriage, Charles taught her how to fly, and she would accompany him on many of his journeys as a licensed pilot. Her traveling experiences furnished material for her first books, "North to the Orient" (1935) and "Listen! The Wind" (1938). In 1930 Anne became the first American woman to earn a first class glider pilot's license. In the 1930s, Anne and Charles together explored and charted air routes between continents. Thus the Lindberghs were the first to fly from Africa to South America, and explored polar air routes from North America to Asia and Europe.
In 1932, her first-born child, Charles Jr., was kidnapped and murdered, despite payment of $70,000 in ransom. A German immigrant, Bruno Richard Hauptmann, was eventually convicted of the kidnapping and murder, and the resultant "Trial of the Century" led to the enactment of the "Lindbergh Law" which made crossing state lines for purposes of kidnapping a federal felony. In 1935, to escape the unrelenting tabloid press, the Lindberghs moved temporarily to Europe, to return four years later. Keeping detailed journals that she would write in almost every day helped Anne keep going during this traumatic period in her life.
During the 1950s and 1960s, she produced a number of significant writings, including "Gift From the Sea" (1955, a collection of eight essays about the meaning of a woman's life), "The Unicorn and Other Poems" (1956), "Dearly Beloved" (1962), and "Earth Shine" (1969). The publication of Gift from the Sea in 1955 earned her place as "one of the leading advocates of the nascent environmental movement" and became a national best seller. She would write 13 books, numerous essays and poems.
(bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson)
Bissell "3G" Generation
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Joyce, Meredith, George, Gwen, Roger, Arthur, Eleanor, Chip, Carolyn, Betsy, Clyde
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Anne Spencer Morrow Adelaide Lyon Boutelle --- Richard Meredith Bissell
b. 1906 d. 2001 ]
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Dwight Whitney Morrow --- Elizabeth R. Cutter Mertie Ella Bisbee --- Herbert Hunt Bissell
b. 1873 b. 1873 ]
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Annie Elisabeth Spencer --- Charles Long Cutter Julie Ann Richardson --- John Hatch Bissell
b. 1845 b. 1842 ]
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Timothy Phelps Spencer --- Elizabeth Reeve Mercy Ann Searle --- Benoni Bliss Bissell
b. 1809 b. 1821 ]
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John Spencer --- Mary Adams Tirzah Pierce --- Solomon Bissell
b. 1773 b. 1777 ]
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Abigail Phelps --- Timothy Spence Eunice Olcott --- Noah Bissell
b. 1752 b. 1749 ]
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Timothy Phelps --- Abigail Edwards Benoni Olcott --- Deborah Cooley
b. 1725 b. 1730 ]
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Timothy Phelps --- Sarah Brown Joseph Cooley --- Mary Dorchester
b. 1702 ]
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Timothy Phelps --- Sarah Pratt Joseph Cooley --- Mary Griswold
b. 1656 d. 1758 ]
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Sarah Griswold --- Samuel Phelps George Griswold --- Mary Holcomb
b. 1635 b. 1621 ]
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b. 1607 d. 1670