1885
As a boy, Eleanor Roosevelt's father, Elliott, and his older brother Theodore watched Abraham Lincoln's funeral ­procession 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, ­crashes 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.