Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was born into an old family of great wealth (she was the favorite niece of President Theodore Roosevelt), but she was remarkably sensitive to the concerns of the underprivileged ...

The future First Lady learned at an early age that one’s prospects in life were not totally dependent on physical beauty Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was born in New York in 1884, the daughter of Anna Hall ...

Elliott Roosevelt, Eleanor's father, is confined to a mental asylum; Eleanor's mother, Anna Hall Roosevelt, dies of diphtheria. Eleanor becomes engaged to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, her fifth cousin ...