Eleanor Roosevelt

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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 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 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 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."
  
<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>
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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."  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.

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