Eleanor Roosevelt

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==Childhood==
 
==Childhood==
<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 Elliott Roosevelt and his wife Anna Rebecca Livingston Ludlow Hall.  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."
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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).  Eleanor was the daughter and eldest child of Elliott Roosevelt and his wife Anna Rebecca Livingston Ludlow Hall.  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 in her own autobiography states that they went to Italy where she remembers being with her father when they visited Vesuvius, and that for several months her mother settled in a house in "Neuilly, outside of Paris."  A third child was on it's way, and Elliott was at this time, apparently temporarily in an asylum.  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.
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<table><tr><td>Eleanor in her own autobiography states that they went to Italy where she remembers being with her father when they visited Vesuvius, and that for several months her mother settled in a house in "Neuilly, outside of Paris."  A third child was on it's way, and Elliott was at this time, apparently temporarily in an asylum.  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.
  
 
Eleanor's mother Anna 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>
 
Eleanor's mother Anna 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>

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