Eleanor was born in New York City in 1884. Her parents died when she was young, and she was raised by an unkind grandmother. She went to school in England in 1899, where she learned confidence in herself and to care about others. In 1905, she married Franklin Roosevelt. Her uncle, President Teddy Roosevelt, performed the ceremony.She had six children.
(The six individuals in the photo below are not her children.)
In 1774, Merriweather Lewis was born. His father died in the American Revolution in 1779 when Lewis was only five years old. In 1794, at the age of twenty, he joined the military and became an army captain. It was there that he met William Clark. Soon after, Lewis became a private secretary for President Jefferson.
