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Birth date.
October 11, 1884, New York City, NY. -
Eleanor's father leaves.
When Eleanor was six years old her father left to Virginia, to deal with his drinking problem. -
Eleanor's mom and brother die.
When Eleanor was eight her mother died. After a while her brother Elliot cought a disease called Diphtheria and he too died. -
Eleanor goes to Allenswood boarding school.
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. -
Eleanor leaves Allenswood.
Nearly 18 years old Eleanor left the school not returning for her fourth year there. -
Eleanor gets married.
Eleanor married her fifth cousin Franklin Delano Roosevelt. -
Eleanor helps leagues.
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. -
Eleanor works with the Red Cross.
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. -
Eleanor works with the United Nations.
The president invited Eleanor to one if the American delegates going to London to begin work of the United Nations. -
Eleanor dies.
At the age of seventy-eight Eleanor died in her sleep. She was buried in the rose garden at Hyde Park, alongside her husband.
