Son is Born to Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh
On Anniversary of Anne, Mother of Child
1930
Englewood, N.J.: Colonel and Mrs. Charles Lindbergh became the parents of a seven and three-quarter pound son at 3:15 o'clock Sunday afternoon at the home of Ambassador and Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow, Mrs. Lindbergh's parents.
Mrs. Lindbergh and the baby, whose birth is a matter of international interest, are both reported to be doing well. By a coincidence this was the mother's twenty-fourth birthday anniversary.
Dr. E.M. Hawks of the staff of New York Hospital, and his associate, Dr. Edward H. Dennen, attended Mrs. Lindbergh in a suite of rooms which had been converted temporarily into hospital quarters. The child was reported to be a fine, hearty boy, somewhat resembling his father. No name has been selected for him.
Colonel Lindbergh and the members of the Morrow family were all at home when the baby was born. the Morrow estate, which has been the scene of considerable excitement lately during Mr. Morrow's successful campaign for the republican nomination for United States senator from New Jersey, had an air of Sunday quiet until the word came out that the Lindbergh heir had been born. There was instant activity at the gates as news gatherers assembled just as they had last Tuesday on primary day and telephones jangled in the Morrow home.
Colonel Lindbergh and his wife have been living quietly at the Morrow estate for some time, taking motor drives and occasional short flights since they set a transcontinental flight record two months ago. Although the colonel did not abandon any of his aviation activities, he kept close to Englewood.
Preparations that had been made for Mrs. Lindbergh's reception in a New York hospital were canceled several days ago and a staff of nurses was sent to the Morrow home. The baby was born in the same surroundings in which his famous parents were married on May 27, 1929.
On that occasion the Rev. Dr. William Adams Brown officiated in the presence of a dozen friends and relatives. The bride wore a chiffon dress made for her by an Englewood seamstress and she carried an old-fashioned bouquet of blue larkspur and while columbine. The Lindbrghs had left the estate before the knowledge of their marriage became public.
For several days their whereabouts were unknown until it was learned that they were taking their wedding trip along the New England coast in a cabin cruiser. During the months that followed Mrs. Lindbergh's marriage she won independent laurels as a flyer. Under the expert tutelage of the conqueror of the Atlantic she learned to fly and won a pilot's aviation license. She made her first solo flight at the Aviation Country Club at Hicksville on August 23 of last year. Colonel Lindbergh, who had been giving her flying instructions since August 19, decided suddenly that his pupil was ready to test her wings alone. He stood beside the plane for a few minutes to give final instructions and then his wife took off easily, circled the field and landed by herself. The colonel sent her aloft again and then expressed satisfaction with her landing.
Mrs. Lindbergh won her glider pilot's license this January while she was in San Diego. In the last year she has flown nearly 30,000 miles, including a 7,000 mile journey over South America. She has seen jungles viewed by few aviators of either sex and her aerial photography has won favorable comment among scientists.
In April of this year she and her husband crossed the country in fourteen hours, forty-five minutes, and thirty-two seconds with one stop at Wichita, Kan. for fuel and oil. Mrs. Lindbergh did a considerable part of the work of the flight as navigator and copilot. Two weeks ago the Lindberghs made a test flight over the metropolitan area in a small monoplane, and last Thursday they flew together to Hartford and back.
The whole history of her courtship and marriage has been one of romantic interest and of a companionship of the air well suited to her husband's career. A little more than three years ago Miss Anne Morrow was as unaware of the existence of Lindbergh as the rest of the world. Then came May 20, 1927, the day on which he jumped into his plane at Roosevelt field and announced, "Well, I'm off."
He landed at Le Bourget field, Paris, thirty-three hours and twenty-nine minutes later with the simple declaration, "I'm Charles Lindbergh."
International fame now dwelt with the young aviator, at times interfering with the privacy he consistently sought. He was invited by the United States government to fly to Mexico City as a good will gesture and there he was the guest of Mr. Morrow, the ambassador to Mexico.
Miss Morrow was a recent graduate of Smith college, where she had been known as a dreamy and studious girl, with literary leanings and a flair for verse. She wrote a number of poems for the college paper and majored in English, being graduated with honors in June, 1928. She won the Mary Augusta Jordan prize, the most coveted scholastic trophy at Smith, awarded for the most original piece of work. She also won the Elizabeth Johnson prize for the best essay on "Woman of Dr. Johnson's Time."
___________________________________________________________
[Note: Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., 20-month-old son of the famous aviator Charles Lindbergh and Anne (Morrow) Lindbergh, was kidnapped about 9:00 p.m., on March 1, 1932, from the nursery on the second floor of the Lindbergh home near Hopewell, New Jersey. Ransom was demanded. The baby's body was found May 12, 1932 about 4-1/2 miles from the Lindbergh estate. Evidence was that the baby had been killed the night of the kidnapping. German immigrant, Bruno Richard Hauptmann, a carpenter, would be charged and convicted of the crime. He was executed on April 6, 1936. The kidnapping was one of the most sensational crimes of the 20th century. The mansion from which the baby was kidnapped would be donated to charity by the heart-broken parents.]
Photo of 20-month old Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
shortly before the kidnapping.
Philadelphia Inquirer, March 6, 1932
Left Photo: Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh, the former Anne Morrow, is pictured seated in the garden of her late father's home with Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., then only a few weeks old, in her arms
Right Photo: Left to Right: Mrs. Dwight Whitney Morrow, maternal grandmother of the famous baby; Mrs. Charles Long Cutter, of Cleveland, Mrs. Morrow's mother and great-grandmother of the "Eaglet," and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh, the baby's mother. The picture was taken when the baby was about six months old.
[Philadelphia Inquirer, March 2, 1932]
No comments:
Post a Comment