From an early age, Anna Curtenius Roosevelt knew she wanted to be an archaeologist. Her mother, one of her biggest influences, was painter Frances Blanche Webb Roosevelt (1917–1995), who spent part of ...

“In our family,” grinned Mrs. Roosevelt, “they never go beyond 21.” With only a few of the family present—Elliott and his second wife and Anna Roosevelt Boettiger— President Franklin ...

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 ...