Lorena Hickok
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| − | '''Lorena Alice Hickok''' (1893-1968), alleged lesbian lover of Eleanor Roosevelt. | + | '''Lorena Alice Hickok''' (1893-1968), journalist, author and alleged lesbian lover of [[Eleanor Roosevelt]], wife of [[Franklin D Roosevelt]], US President. |
| − | + | This page writen and copyright 2006-2008 by Will Johnson, Professional Genealogist. | |
| − | + | Lorena was born 7 Mar 1893 in Grant County, [[Wisconsin]], the daughter and eldest child of Addison J Hickok (1864-1932) and his wife Anna Adelsa Waite (1870-1906). Addison and Anna had married April 1891 in Elkhorn, Walworth County, Wisconsin. | |
| − | + | Lorena's mother Anna died 16 Sep 1906 in Bowdle, [[South Dakota]] of a stroke, leaving her husband and three daughters: Lorena, Ruby and Myrtle. Doris Faber prints in her book, the obituary of Anna (Waite) Hickok from the Sep 20 issue of the Bowdle ''Pioneer''. About fifteen months later, on 1 Jan 1908, her father Addison married again to Emma Flashman in Brown County, South Dakota. | |
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| + | Lorena is reported to have been an extra mouth in a family who didn't really care for her. Her father abusive and violent, her step-mother detached and uninterested. Lorena found her own way by working sometimes as a live-in housemaid until she moved in with remote family members. Lorena started in journalism and this is eventually how she managed to meet Eleanor Roosevelt about 1932. Lorena deposited a large volume of letters writen by both herself and Eleanor, to each other, into the Roosevelt Library, to be opened only ten years after Lorena's death. | ||
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| + | When the letters were opened, biographers were stunned. The letters would seem to clearly indicate a deep and personal relationship between them. Some biographers of both her and Eleanor state that they clearly had a romantic and probably sexual relationship, others are not quite so committed to the sexual nature, including Eleanor's daughter Anna. | ||
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| + | Lorena Hickok died 1 May 1968, age seventy-five. | ||
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