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). 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. | 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 | + | 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 Elliott 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." |
| − | <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 | + | <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 Elliott 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." Elliott was then living in a private asylum in France.</td><td>http://www.oscars.org/press/pressreleases/images/051122_b.jpg</td></tr></table> |
Upon their return from Europe, Anna and Eleanor lived with her widowed mother Mrs. Ludlow, for a short time. "We moved back to New York, the autumn that I was seven, to a house which my mother had bought and put in order on East 61st Street, two blocks from Auntie Bye..." (Autobiography, p. 8) She then however discusses incongruously and without explanation her life in the house on 37th street with her grandmother Ludlow and her mother's sisters. Her father although not then living there, was a frequent visitor. | Upon their return from Europe, Anna and Eleanor lived with her widowed mother Mrs. Ludlow, for a short time. "We moved back to New York, the autumn that I was seven, to a house which my mother had bought and put in order on East 61st Street, two blocks from Auntie Bye..." (Autobiography, p. 8) She then however discusses incongruously and without explanation her life in the house on 37th street with her grandmother Ludlow and her mother's sisters. Her father although not then living there, was a frequent visitor. | ||
| − | Eleanor's mother Anna died on 8 Dec 1892, of a fever when Eleanor was eight "at her home 52 E 61st St", so reports her obituary in the ''New York Times'' published the next day. | + | Eleanor's mother Anna died on 8 Dec 1892, of a fever when Eleanor was eight "at her home 52 E 61st St", so reports her obituary in the ''New York Times'' published the next day. Elliott followed her to the grave two years later, his obituary in the ''New York Times'' dated 16 Aug 1894 describes his death from heart disease "at his home 313 West 102nd St". Probably from before her mother's death, Eleanor lived with both her mother and grandmother, but certainly afterward she was placed in the custody of grandmother Hall. Mrs Hall sent her for "finishing" to school in England in the Autumn of 1899. She boarded at Mlle. Souvestre's school "Allenswood," in South Fields near London. Upon her return for her "society debut" she met again Franklin Delano Roosevelt her distant cousin, then in school at Harvard University. |
<table><tr><td>http://www.firstladies.org/biographies/images/EleanorRoosevelt.jpg</td><td>Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born 30 Jan 1882 at Hyde Park, Dutchess County, [[New York]], to James Roosevelt (1828-1900) and his wife Sara Delano (1854-1941). | <table><tr><td>http://www.firstladies.org/biographies/images/EleanorRoosevelt.jpg</td><td>Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born 30 Jan 1882 at Hyde Park, Dutchess County, [[New York]], to James Roosevelt (1828-1900) and his wife Sara Delano (1854-1941). | ||
| − | Many people assume that the Roosevelt's met because of their shared Roosevelt surname and it ties, but they were very distant Roosevelt fifth-cousins. They actually met because Sara Delano and Anna Roosevelt ''' | + | Many people assume that the Roosevelt's met because of their shared Roosevelt surname and it ties, but they were very distant Roosevelt fifth-cousins. They actually met because Sara Delano and Anna Roosevelt '''Elliott's sister''' were best friends from before Sara's marriage to Elliott. When Franklin was born, Elliott Roosevelt was his godfather. The families then remained close because of this friendship, which eventually resulted in Franklin and Eleanor knowing each other somewhat as they grew.</td></tr></table> |
==Marriage== | ==Marriage== | ||
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#James Roosevelt (b. 1907) who married twice Elizabeth Cushing and Romelle Schneider; | #James Roosevelt (b. 1907) who married twice Elizabeth Cushing and Romelle Schneider; | ||
#a boy who was born in 1908 or 1909 and died "less than eight months old"; | #a boy who was born in 1908 or 1909 and died "less than eight months old"; | ||
| − | # | + | #Elliott "Bunny" Roosevelt (b. 1910) who married four times Elizabeth Donner, Ruth Googins, Faye Emerson and Minnewa Ross; |
#Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr (b. 1914) who married twice Ethel Dupont and Suzanne Perrin; | #Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr (b. 1914) who married twice Ethel Dupont and Suzanne Perrin; | ||
#John Aspinwall Roosevelt (b. 1916) who married twice Anne Lindsay Clark and Irene Boyd McAlpin. | #John Aspinwall Roosevelt (b. 1916) who married twice Anne Lindsay Clark and Irene Boyd McAlpin. | ||
