Lorena Hickok
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− | '''Lorena Alice Hickok''', 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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*[http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&db=SDdeaths%2c&rank=0&tips=0&gsfn=Addison&gsln=Hickok&sx=&gs1co=1%2cAll+Countries&gs1pl=1%2c+&year=&yearend=&sbo=0&sbor=&ufr=0&wp=4%3b_80000002%3b_80000003&srchb=r&prox=1&ti=0&ti.si=0&gss=angs-d&o_iid=21416&o_lid=21416&o_it=21416&fh=0&recid=121378&recoff=7+9 South Dakota Death Index, 1905-55] Showing "Addison J Hickok, died Oct 7, 1932 in Brown County". | *[http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&db=SDdeaths%2c&rank=0&tips=0&gsfn=Addison&gsln=Hickok&sx=&gs1co=1%2cAll+Countries&gs1pl=1%2c+&year=&yearend=&sbo=0&sbor=&ufr=0&wp=4%3b_80000002%3b_80000003&srchb=r&prox=1&ti=0&ti.si=0&gss=angs-d&o_iid=21416&o_lid=21416&o_it=21416&fh=0&recid=121378&recoff=7+9 South Dakota Death Index, 1905-55] Showing "Addison J Hickok, died Oct 7, 1932 in Brown County". | ||
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+ | *[http://www.newspaperarchive.com/PdfViewerTags.aspx?img=70674714¤tResult=7&src=search&firstvisit=true ''San Antonio Express', 26 Feb 1933], "The Roosevelts — Just an Informal Family — 'Blue Bloods' But They Ban Snobbishness and the White House Latchstring Will Be Kept Out", by Lorena A Hickok, Associated Press Staff Writer | ||
==Secondary Sources== | ==Secondary Sources== |