Marriage and Family
Anne and Charles Lindbergh met on December 21, 1927 in Mexico City. Dwight Morrow—Lindbergh's financial adviser at J.P. Morgan and Co.—invited Lindbergh to Mexico in order to advance good relations between that country and the United States. At the time, Anne Morrow was a shy 21-year-old senior at Smith College. Charles Lindbergh was a courageous aviator whose solo flight across the Atlantic made him a hero of mythic proportions and the most famous man in the world. But the sight of the boyish aviator, who was staying with the Morrows, tugged at Anne's heartstrings. She would later write in her diary:
| “ | He is taller than anyone else—you see his head in a moving crowd and you notice his glance, where it turns, as though it were keener, clearer, and brighter than anyone else's, lit with a more intense fire. ... What could I say to this boy? Anything I might say would be trivial and superficial, like pink frosting flowers. I felt the whole world before this to be frivolous, superficial, ephemeral. | ” |
Anne Morrow and Charles Lindbergh were married in a private ceremony on May 27, 1929 at the home of her parents in Englewood, New Jersey.
That year, Anne flew solo for the first time, and in 1930 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. The Lindberghs were the first to fly from Africa to South America, and explored polar air routes from North America to Asia and Europe.
Their first child, Charles Jr, was born on Anne's 24th birthday, June 22, 1930.
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