Charles Lindbergh: A Brief Biography

Charles Lindbergh Charles Lindbergh was born on February 4th, 1902 in Detroit Michigan. He was an American aviator, author, inventor, military officer, explorer, and social activist. Charles Lindbergh was named after his father. Charles’s parents were Evangeline Lindbergh and Charles Lindbergh. Charles Lindbergh was an American who made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean on May 20-21, 1927. Charles grew up on a farm near Little Falls, Minn. As a young boy he always showed a very large interest in building things and was very creative. At the age of 18, he entered the University of Wisconsin to study engineering. While he was in school he realized he was much more interested in the exciting, young field of aviation than he was in school. After two years at Wisconsin University, he left school to become a barnstormer. A barnstormer is a pilot who performed daredevil stunts at fairs and carnivals. In 1924 he signed up to join the United States Army. Charles joined in hope that he could be trained as an Army air service
He had 8 boys and 3 girls. His sons names were Jon, Dyrk, Scott, Christoph, Charles Augustus, Land, Anne, David, and Vago. On march 1st, 1932 the Charles Lindbergh’s year-old son, Charles Augustus, Jr., was kidnapped from the family home in New Jersey. About ten weeks later the child’s body was found. In 1934, police arrested a man Bruno Richard Hauptmann. He was and charged him with the murder of the 1 year old boy. Hauptmann was convicted of the crime, and he was executed in 1936. In 1935 Charles Lindbergh and his wife and their 3-year-old son, Jon, moved to Europe in search of privacy and safety. The Lindbergh kidnapping led Congress to pass the "Lindbergh law." This law makes kidnapping a federal offense if a kid is taken across state lines or if the mail service is used for ransom demands. Events in Charles Lindbergh’s life have even creating laws in America. (Charles,