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Eleanor Roosevelt II
Posted on: 12/02/06
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1885
As a boy, Eleanor Roosevelt's father, Elliott, and his older brother Theodore watched Abraham Lincoln's funeral Âprocession in New York City.
1887
Three-year-old Eleanor and her family take a summer trip to Europe on the S.S. Britannic. Another ship, the Celtic, Âcrashes into the Britannic on its first day out. Many are killed and hundreds are injured. Eleanor's family gets into a lifeboat while Eleanor, in tears, clings to a crew member. The crew member ultimately drops Eleanor down to her father. Eleanor is left with a lifelong fear of heights, water,
and boats.
As a boy, Eleanor Roosevelt's father, Elliott, and his older brother Theodore watched Abraham Lincoln's funeral Âprocession in New York City.
1887
Three-year-old Eleanor and her family take a summer trip to Europe on the S.S. Britannic. Another ship, the Celtic, Âcrashes into the Britannic on its first day out. Many are killed and hundreds are injured. Eleanor's family gets into a lifeboat while Eleanor, in tears, clings to a crew member. The crew member ultimately drops Eleanor down to her father. Eleanor is left with a lifelong fear of heights, water,
and boats.
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