Ancestry of
Amelia Earhart

Aviation Pioneer

Alfred Gideon Otis

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• • Grandfather of Amelia Earhart — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 6 
  • Father:
  • Isaac Otis 
  • Mother:
  • Caroline Abigail Curtis   
  • Birth Date:
  • 13 Dec 1827 
  • Birth Location:
  • Little York, Homer, Courtland, New York 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Death Date:
  • May 1912 
  • Death Location:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Mount Vernon Cemetery, Atchison, Atchison Co., Kansas 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Amelia Josephine Harres
  • Marriage Date:
  • 22 Apr 1862 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., Pennsylvania 
  • Child:

  Amelia "Amy" Otis (Ahnentafel No:3 )

• Sources for Alfred Gideon Otis

  • ¹ Federal Census, KS, Atchison County, 1910, Atchison Ward 2, E.D. 3, Sheet 14A, Image 27 of 41.
  • ² Federal Census, KS, Atchison County, 1900, Atchison Ward 2, E.D. 3, Sheet 10B, Image 20 of 28.
  • ³ Federal Census, KS, Atchison County, 1880, Atchison, E.D. 2, p. 9, Image 9 of 71.
  • ⁴ Federal Census, MI, Barry County, 1850, Prairieville, Image 5 of 14.
  • ⁵ Federal Census, KS, Atchison, 1870, Atchison Ward 2, p. 8, Image 8 of 38.
  • ⁶ Genealogical and Biographical Record of North-Eastern Kansas, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company (1900), 27-42.
  • ⁷ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 07/30/2015).
  • ⁸ Pennsylvania and New Jersey, U.S., Church and Town Records, 1669-2013, Marriage record for Alfred G Otis and Amelia Harres.
  • ⁹ The Indiana Gazette (Indiana, Pennsylvania), 30 OCT 1962, p. 1, Obituary for Amy Otis Earhart.
  • ¹⁰ Amelia Earhart Birthplace Museum, "Home as a Birthplace", (accessed 07/30/2015).
  • ¹¹ Otis, William A., A Genealogical and Historical Memoir of the Otis Family in America, Chicago: Unknown (1924), 427.
  • ¹² Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#58 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: Elizabeth Boyd Roberts: A Genealogical Tribute with 50 New . . .", (accessed 07/06/2017).
  • ¹³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 490.
  • ¹⁴ Wikipedia, "Amelia Earhart", (accessed 07/30/2015).

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