Eleanor Roosevelt
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| − | Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was born 11 Oct 1884 in "her maternal grandmother's mansion overlooking the Hudson River, about a hundred miles north of New York City". (Farber, p 20). Neither Eleanor herself in her own autobiography, nor her biographer Blanche Weisen Cook mentions specifically where she was born. | + | Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was born 11 Oct 1884 in "her maternal grandmother's mansion overlooking the Hudson River, about a hundred miles north of New York City". (Farber, p 20). Farber is no doubt here describing the village of Tivoli or more colorfully called "Tivoli-on-Hudson". Neither Eleanor herself in her own autobiography, nor her biographer Blanche Weisen Cook mentions specifically where she was born. |
Eleanor was the daughter and eldest child of Elliott Roosevelt and his wife Anna Rebecca Livingston Ludlow Hall who had married in New York City on 1 Dec 1883. Elliott and Anna had another child Paul born in 1890. All was unwell however, for Elliot had a weakness for liquor and a precarious mental condition. Doris Faber describes his wife Anna as exhibiting a "chill religiosity", and that after several increasingly tense years "she all but banished him." | Eleanor was the daughter and eldest child of Elliott Roosevelt and his wife Anna Rebecca Livingston Ludlow Hall who had married in New York City on 1 Dec 1883. Elliott and Anna had another child Paul born in 1890. All was unwell however, for Elliot had a weakness for liquor and a precarious mental condition. Doris Faber describes his wife Anna as exhibiting a "chill religiosity", and that after several increasingly tense years "she all but banished him." | ||
