Evangeline Lodge Land

Evangeline Lodge Land Lindbergh (May 29, 1876 – September 7, 1954) was an American teacher best known as the mother of famed aviator Charles Lindbergh. She was raised in a highly educated family; her dentist father Charles H. Land pioneered porcelain and gold tooth crowns, and her uncle John Christian Lodge (1862–1950) was the 51st, 54th, and 56th mayor of Detroit. on May 29, 1876, to newlyweds, married in 1875: Dr. Charles Henry Land (1847–1922) and Evangeline Lodge (1850–1919).

In 1899, Evangeline graduated from the University of Michigan and taught chemistry at Little Falls High School. On March 27, 1901, she married Charles August Lindbergh. Evangeline gave birth to son Charles Augustus Lindbergh on February 4, 1902. Later that year, the family settled into a new house of the river in Little Falls, Minnesota.

Evangeline often had difficulty raising her two step-daughters, Lillian and Eva, who both eventually moved away. She often threatened her husband with divorce; he then caved in to her demands, fearing a divorce would cost him his seat in Congress. After further problems, Evangeline began to live in a separate residence in 1909. Her son graduated from Little Falls High School on June 5, 1918; in the same year, his parents separated. In 1920, Evangeline and her son rented rooms at a boarding house in Madison while Charles Jr. attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Evangeline visited her son prior to Lindbergh's historic solo transatlantic flight but, to minimize distractions, she left before his takeoff on , 1927 from Roosevelt Field, Long Island. At a dinner hosted by ambassador to Germany Hugh Wilson, Charles Lindbergh was presented the Order of the German Eagle by Germany's air chief, Hermann Göring, in attendance was Anne Lindbergh, Evangeline Lindbergh, and German aviation figures: Ernst Heinkel, Adolf Baeumker, and Willy Messerschmitt.

Evangeline Lodge Land Lindbergh died of Parkinson's disease on September 7, 1954, in Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan. Her grave site is located in the Pine Lake Cemetery, West Bloomfield, Michigan.

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