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| − | <table><tr><td>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). Eleanor was the daughter and eldest child of Elliot Roosevelt and his wife Anna Rebecca Livingston Ludlow Hall. Elliot's weakness for liquor made him ''persona non grata'' to his wife Rebecca, and Eleanor saw little of her father as she grew. In an 18 Aug 1891 ''New York Times'' article, Theodore Roosevelt, who would | + | <table><tr><td>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). Eleanor was the daughter and eldest child of Elliot Roosevelt and his wife Anna Rebecca Livingston Ludlow Hall. Elliot's weakness for liquor made him ''persona non grata'' to his wife Rebecca, and Eleanor saw little of her father as she grew. In an 18 Aug 1891 ''New York Times'' article, Theodore Roosevelt, who would be elected President in 1900, petitioned the New York Supreme Court to have his brother Elliot declared insane and for a commission "...to legally pass upon his condition in order that a committee may be appointed to take charge of his person and estate....Three times he threatened to commit suicide." He was then currently in a private asylum in France. |
Other than Eleanor, Elliot and Anna had a son Paul born in 1890 and a baby born in June 1891. Eleanor's mother Rebecca died of a fever when Eleanor was seven, and Elliot followed her to the grave two years later. Eleanor was then placed in the custody of grandmother Hall until she was sent to school in England. Upon her return for her "society debut" she met again Franklin Delano Roosevelt her distant cousin, then in school at Harvard University.</td><td>http://www.oscars.org/press/pressreleases/images/051122_b.jpg</td></tr></table> | Other than Eleanor, Elliot and Anna had a son Paul born in 1890 and a baby born in June 1891. Eleanor's mother Rebecca died of a fever when Eleanor was seven, and Elliot followed her to the grave two years later. Eleanor was then placed in the custody of grandmother Hall until she was sent to school in England. Upon her return for her "society debut" she met again Franklin Delano Roosevelt her distant cousin, then in school at Harvard University.</td><td>http://www.oscars.org/press/pressreleases/images/051122_b.jpg</td></tr></table> | ||
