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October 11, 1884, New York City, NY.
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When Eleanor was six years old her father left to Virginia, to deal with his drinking problem.
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When Eleanor was eight her mother died. After a while her brother Elliot cought a disease called Diphtheria and he too died.
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Eleanor's grandmother sent Eleanor to a boarding school in England. The school was Allenswood, a private academy for girls. The school was located in the outskirts of London.
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Nearly 18 years old Eleanor left the school not returning for her fourth year there.
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Eleanor married her fifth cousin Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
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Eleanor helps in the work of the League of Women Voters, the Consumer's League, the Foreign Policy association and the Women's Trade Union League.
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Eleanor helped the Red Cross raise money. She gave blood, sold war bonds. She also visited barracks and hospitals on islands throughout the South Pacific. When she visited a hospital she would stop at every bed and she would talk to each soldier and say something special, something that a mother might say.
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The president invited Eleanor to one if the American delegates going to London to begin work of the United Nations.
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At the age of seventy-eight Eleanor died in her sleep. She was buried in the rose garden at Hyde Park, alongside her husband.
