Eleanor Roosevelt
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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 discussed incongruously and without explanation her life in the house on 37th street with her grandmother Ludlow and her mother's sister. 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 discussed incongruously and without explanation her life in the house on 37th street with her grandmother Ludlow and her mother's sister. Her father although not then living there, was a frequent visitor. | ||
| − | 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 in the Autumn of 1899. Upon her return for her "society debut" she met again Franklin Delano Roosevelt her distant cousin, then in school at Harvard University. | + | 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 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). | ||
