February 12, 1929 that Charles and Anne were engaged and they were then married on May 27 of that year. Charles taught her to fly and they went on many expeditions around the world, charting new routes for airlines. Anne was also a famous poet and writer. Anne gave birth to their first son, Charles August Lindbergh, Jr., on June 22, 1930. Once the excitement of the baby had died down the press finally left them alone for a while. Charles could finally go to New York to handle business without being followed by hordes of photographers. The trips were necessary because he was rapidly becoming very busy with various enterprises. Transcontinental Air Transport (TAT) hired him as chief technical director at 10,000 dollars a year and also gave him 25,000 shares of stock at half the market price. Pan-American Airways also retained him as a technical adviser at $10,000 a year plus giving him numerous stock options. He made additional money through his association by marriage with he firm of J.P. Morgan, which was able to put a number of lucrative opportunities his way. On his way to becoming a millionaire, Lindbergh hired a family friend of the Morrows, Colonel Henry C. Breckinridge, as his legal and financial adviser. This freed him to attend the numerous conferences concerning TAT transcontinental routes, to fly to South America to check a route for Pan-American Airways, and to work with Dr. Alexis Carrel, a French biologist.Dr. Carrel had won the Nobel Prize in 1912 for his discovery of a method of suturing blood vessels during surgery. He was currently working on artificial transplants, and Lindbergh began to work with him at the Rockefeller Institute in New York. Annes sister Elisabeth had a heart problem, which doctors had told Lindbergh could not be corrected because her heart couldnt be stopped long enough to perform surgery. Lindbergh wondered if an artificial heart couldnt keep a patient going while surgery was performed. ...
