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 ...

For Eleanor Roosevelt, it meant she was able to return to volunteer work for the first time since she had been married. She volunteered with the Red Cross and visited wounded naval soldiers regularly.

That same year she married Louis, heir to Louis VI of France, who shortly afterwards became king as Louis VII. The couple had two daughters. In 1147, Eleanor accompanied her husband on the Second ...

During his last year at Harvard, he became engaged to Theodore Roosevelt’s niece, Eleanor Roosevelt, who was also his distant cousin. They married on March 17, 1905, and went on to have one daughter ...