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Her parents were Captain Arthur H. Keller and Katherine Adams Keller. Her father was a veteran of the confederate army (army that fought to separate from the United States during the Civil War, which lasted from 1861 to 1865).
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She had four siblings: two full siblings, Mildred Campbell (Keller) Tyson and Phillip Brooks Keller; and two older half-brothers from her father's first marriage, James McDonald Keller and William Simpson Keller.
Sep 9, 2024 · Helen Keller, a remarkable author and educator who overcame deafness and blindness, inspired the world with her resilience, advocacy for disability rights, and groundbreaking achievements.
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- Helen Keller was an American author and educator who was blind and deaf. Her education and training represent an extraordinary accomplishment in th...
- Helen Keller’s personal accomplishment was developing skills never previously approached by any similarly disabled person. She also lectured on beh...
- Helen Keller wrote about her life in several books, including The Story of My Life (1903), Optimism (1903), The World I Live In (1908), My Religion...
- Helen Keller died on June 1, 1968, in Easton, Connecticut, at the age of 87. She had bought her home in Easton in 1936 and called it Arcan Ridge, a...
- Anne Sullivan became governess to six-year-old Helen Keller in March 1887. In 1888 the two began spending periods at the Perkins Institution, and S...
- Helen Keller was an author, activist, and educator whose lifetime of public advocacy for many communities and causes had lasting global impact. Kel...
Jul 17, 2024 · Keller was the first of two daughters born to Arthur H. Keller and Katherine Adams Keller. Keller's father had served as an officer in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. She also...
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Dec 6, 2023 · Arthur Henley Keller and Catherine Everett Keller. And their daughter’s name? Helen Keller. Add the name of Anne Sullivan, the amazing teacher who tutored Helen, and you have the now-famous...
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Apr 14, 2010 · Helen Keller was an author, lecturer, and crusader for the handicapped. Born in Tuscumbia, Alabama, She lost her sight and hearing at the age of nineteen months to an illness now believed to...
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Her parents were Kate Adams Keller and Colonel Arthur Keller. On her father's side she was descended from Colonel Alexander Spottswood, a colonial governor of Virginia, and on her mother's side, she was related to a number of prominent New England families. Helen's father, Arthur Keller, was a captain in the Confederate army.
