Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was born on October 11, 1884 in New York. Her father was Elliot Roosevelt and her mother was Anna Hall. Her father was President Theodore Roosevelt's younger brother. When she was just a young girl both her parents died. Her mother died in 1892, and her father died in 1894. After her mother's death, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt went to live with her grandmother in Tivoli, New York. There she was educated with private tutors, until age 15 where she was sent to Allenswood, a school in England for young ladies. She stayed in school there until age 18 when she returned to New York where she lived with her cousins.

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Eleanor Roosevelt head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right, 1933.
Created: 1933 July 20
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