Science & invention
Evangeline Lodge Land Lindbergh
1876–1954 · chemistry teacher
Detroit-born chemistry teacher at Cass Technical High School for two decades, best known as the mother of the aviator Charles Lindbergh.
- Born
Detroit, Michigan- Died
Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan
aged 78- Birth name
- Evangeline Lodge Land
- Also known as
- Evangeline Lindbergh
- Detroit years
- 1876–1890s; 1922–1954
- Field
- Science & invention
01 / The Detroit story
The Detroit story
Evangeline Lodge Land was born in Detroit in 1876 into a family of achievers: her father, Dr. Charles H. Land, was a dentist who pioneered porcelain and gold crowns, and her uncle John C. Lodge later served three times as mayor of Detroit. She graduated from the University of Michigan in 1899 and went to teach chemistry in Little Falls, Minnesota, where she married the lawyer and future congressman Charles August Lindbergh; their son Charles was born in 1902 at her parents' home in Detroit. After the couple separated she returned to teaching, and from 1922 until she retired in 1942 she taught chemistry at Detroit's Cass Technical High School, apart from a year in Istanbul in 1928–1929. She died in Grosse Pointe Park in 1954 and is buried in Pine Lake Cemetery in West Bloomfield.
Highlights
- Chemistry teacher at Cass Technical High School, 1922–1942
- University of Michigan graduate, 1899
- Mother of Charles Lindbergh, born in Detroit in 1902
- Niece of Detroit mayor John C. Lodge; daughter of dental pioneer Charles H. Land
- Buried in Pine Lake Cemetery, West Bloomfield
02 / Their Detroit places
Their Detroit places 2
Where they lived, worked, performed and liked to hang out. Closed and demolished places stay here too, because they are part of the city's history.
Worked here · 1922–1942
Cass Technical High School
Demolished · 1922–2005
She taught chemistry for twenty years in the eight-story 1922 building, which stood beside today's Cass Tech; it closed in 2005 and was demolished in 2010–2011.
Buried here · 1954
Pine Lake Cemetery
Her grave is in Section E; her brother Charles, originally buried in Lucerne, Switzerland, now lies beside her.