Eleanor Roosevelt

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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.</td><td>http://www.oscars.org/press/pressreleases/images/051122_b.jpg</td></tr></table>
 
<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.</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 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.
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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 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 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.
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Eleanor's mother Anna died on 8 Dec 1892, of a fever when Eleanor was eight "at her home 52 E 61st St". 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).

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