Charles A. Lindbergh was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, in February 1902.
His father was born in Sweden, but when he came to America, his last name was changed to Lindbergh. Lindbergh Senior belonged to the Swedish Parliament and had been a secretary to the King.
Charles's father was a practicing lawyer during Charle's early years. His father later became a Congressman. Charles and his family never lived in one place very long but moved around almost every 2 months. Charles's mother was college-educated, and her father was a well-known dentist, who they later coined "The father of porcelain in dentistry."
Charles's family tree was highly educated.

Charles attended many schools, including the University of Wisconsin. But before that, he had attended 12 schools and traveled across the U.S. many times, including Panama. Charles was primarily interested in Mechanical engineering, and while attending university, he became very interested in aviation. He saw his first airplane in Washington, D.C., in 1912.
Charles enrolled in flight school in 1922.
He had never touched an airplane before and noted that the long hours of university were very trying for him. His love of the outdoors precluded him from studying for long hours. At university, Charles had preoccupations with shooting in matches with a pistol and rifle in certain universities. He enjoyed riding his motorcycle and had ridden it from Minnesota to the university when he entered college
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Charles went away as many times as he could at the shooting ranges. He was beginning his first year at Wisconsin and was a member of ROTC. His first six-week vacation was at Artillery School at Camp Knox. With 45 dollars in his possession, he traveled to many states and ended up in Madison, where he overhauled his motorcycle.
He decided to take aeronautics in his third semester, his sophomore year at Wisconsin. If he became acquainted with it and earned a good income, he intended to make it his life's work. At this time, he had finished halfway through his sophomore year. In March 1922, he left on his motorcycle, traveled to Nebraska, and enrolled as a flying student with the Nebraska Aircraft Corporation. Before he enrolled as a flying student, he had to travel to Nebraska, and the roads were not always paved. He left the paved highway and traveled only 4 miles in four hours. A farm wagon passing by provided him with motorcycle transportation to the next town, where he put the motorcycle on the next train to Lincoln. He finally made it to Lincoln on April 9th, 1922.
With Otto Timm as a pilot, Charles was invited to fly on as a passenger on a Lincoln Standard plane.
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