Editing Linda McCartney (section)

==Early years==
Linda McCartney was born Linda Louise Eastman in [[Manhattan|Manhattan, New York]], on September 24, 1941.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.biography.com/artist/linda-mccartney |title=Linda McCartney |website=Biography.com |language=en-us |access-date=September 21, 2019 |archive-date=May 5, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200505125453/https://www.biography.com/artist/linda-mccartney |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.lindamccartney.com/ | title=Linda McCartney – Official Website | access-date=February 21, 2019 | archive-date=May 20, 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200520235755/https://www.lindamccartney.com/ | url-status=live }}</ref> She had one older brother named John, and two younger sisters named Laura and Louise Jr.<ref name="ObituaryLindaMcCartney"/><ref name="YoungLinda"/> Her mother, Louise Sara Eastman (née Lindner), was from a [[German-Jewish]] family.<ref name="forward"/><ref>{{cite book |author=Ze'ev Glicenstein |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9i1iAAAAMAAJ&q=Stella+Dryfoos |title=Roots and remembrance: explorations in Jewish genealogy |publisher=Ontario Genealogical Society |year=2006 |access-date=February 3, 2014 |isbn=9780777921609 |archive-date=April 17, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230417075046/https://books.google.com/books?id=9i1iAAAAMAAJ&q=Stella+Dryfoos |url-status=live }}</ref> Her maternal grandfather was Max J. Lindner, founder of the [[Sterling-Lindner Co.|Lindner Company]] clothing store in [[Cleveland, Ohio]]. Her father, [[Lee Eastman]]<ref name="YoungLinda">{{cite web |url=http://geocities.com/helenwheels_99/pup.html |title=When I Was A Pup |access-date=June 9, 2011 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20091022062105/http://geocities.com/helenwheels_99/pup.html |archive-date =October 22, 2009}}</ref> (born Leopold Vail Epstein), was the son of [[Belarusian-Jewish]] immigrants Louis and Stella (Shkolnick) Epstein from [[Gomel]].<ref name="belluck"/><ref name="ellis">''New York, U.S., Arriving Passenger and Crew Lists (including Castle Garden and Ellis Island), 1820–1957''</ref><ref name="forward">{{cite web | url=http://forward.com/culture/186536/secret-history-of-paul-mccartney-the-jewish-beatle/ | title=Secret History of Paul McCartney, the Jewish Beatle | publisher=The Forward | access-date=December 15, 2015 | first=Seth | last=Rogovoy | date=November 4, 2013 | archive-date=December 22, 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222172853/http://forward.com/culture/186536/secret-history-of-paul-mccartney-the-jewish-beatle/ | url-status=live }}</ref> His sister [[Rose Frisch]] became a noted scientist who worked on women's fertility and population studies.<ref name="belluck">[https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/12/science/rose-e-frisch-scientist-who-linked-body-fat-to-fertility-dies-at-96.html Pam Belluck, "Rose E. Frisch, Scientist Who Linked Body Fat to Fertility, Dies at 96"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191221150831/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/12/science/rose-e-frisch-scientist-who-linked-body-fat-to-fertility-dies-at-96.html |date=December 21, 2019 }}, ''The New York Times'', February 11, 2015. Retrieved September 25, 2018</ref> Her father practiced entertainment law in New York and counted among his famous clients [[Harold Arlen]], [[Tommy Dorsey]], [[Willem de Kooning]], [[Jack Lawrence (songwriter)|Jack Lawrence]], and [[Mark Rothko]].<ref name=Sounes>Sounes, Howard. ''Fab: An Intimate Life of Paul McCartney'', Doubleday (2010) pp. 172–175</ref> At Eastman's request, Lawrence wrote the song "[[Linda (1946 song)|Linda]]" when she was one year old.<ref name=Sounes/> It was recorded by [[Buddy Clark]] in 1947 and went to No. 2 on the Billboard Best Sellers chart,<ref name="YoungLinda"/> and was recorded again in 1963 by duo [[Jan and Dean]].<ref name=Sounes/>

Eastman graduated from [[Scarsdale High School]] in 1959.<ref name="LindaSanFranciscoMuseum">{{cite web|url=http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist6/lindabio.html |title=Linda McCartney |publisher=The Virtual Museum of San Francisco |access-date=June 9, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604023547/http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist6/lindabio.html |archive-date=June 4, 2011 }}</ref> She then attended [[Vermont College of Fine Arts|Vermont College]] in [[Montpelier, Vermont]], where she received an [[Associate of Arts]] in 1961.<ref>Norwich University, [http://library2.norwich.edu/archivalexcerpts/?p=719 Mining for Old: Linda McCartney at Vermont College] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140812052833/http://library2.norwich.edu/archivalexcerpts/?p=719 |date=August 12, 2014 }}, August 10, 2012</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://academics.norwich.edu/library/linda-mccartneys-wedding-announcement-2/ |title=Linda McCartney's Wedding Announcement: 1969 Vermont College Alumni Newsletter |date=June 17, 2014 |website=Norwich University Archive: Mining for Old |publisher=Norwich University |quote=VC Alum Marries Beatle: Linda Eastman, the New York girl who married Beatle Paul McCartney recently, was a 1961 Vermont College graduate. |access-date=February 6, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303121029/http://academics.norwich.edu/library/linda-mccartneys-wedding-announcement-2/ |archive-date=March 3, 2016 }}</ref> Her brother John, who studied law like their father, later became the attorney and manager of her husband [[Paul McCartney]].<ref name="TheBeatlesinScotland">{{cite web |url=http://www.sundaymail.co.uk/news/editors-choice/2008/11/02/the-beatles-in-scotland-paul-mccartney-s-story-78057-20862290/ |title=The Beatles in Scotland: Paul McCartney's story |work=Sunday Mail |date=November 2, 2008 |access-date=June 9, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090114014422/http://www.sundaymail.co.uk/news/editors-choice/2008/11/02/the-beatles-in-scotland-paul-mccartney-s-story-78057-20862290/ |archive-date=January 14, 2009}}</ref> She preferred nature and animals while growing up and enjoyed going horseback riding as a child.<ref name="Sounes" /> After graduating from Vermont College, she attended the [[University of Arizona]] and majored in fine arts<ref name="LindaSanFranciscoMuseum"/> while taking up [[nature photography]] as a hobby.<ref name="Sounes" /> While she was studying there, her mother was killed in the 1962 crash of [[American Airlines Flight 1 (1962)|American Airlines Flight 1]] in [[Jamaica Bay|Jamaica Bay, New York]].<ref name="LindnerAirCrash">{{cite web |url=http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19620301-0 |title=Accident description |publisher=Aviation Safety Network |year=1996 |access-date=June 9, 2011 |archive-date=July 9, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110709023814/http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19620301-0 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="McCartneysLunch">{{cite news |first=Nigel |last=Slater |url=http://shopping.guardian.co.uk/food/story/0,,2068978,00.html |title=When the McCartneys came for lunch |work=The Guardian |date=April 29, 2007 |access-date=June 9, 2011 |location=London |archive-date=February 16, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080216224032/http://shopping.guardian.co.uk/food/story/0,,2068978,00.html |url-status=live }}</ref> She then left the University of Arizona without graduating, and married Joseph Melville See Jr. (in June 1962). Their daughter Heather was born in December 1962. They divorced in 1965, and Linda resumed using her maiden name.