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০১ অক্টোবর, ২০২০ ০৬:৫৩ পূর্বাহ্ণ
Helen Keller
ধরন: সাধারণ শিক্ষা
শ্রেণি: সপ্তম
বিষয়: English
অধ্যায়: পঞ্চম অধ্যায়
Helen Keller was born on June 27, 1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama. Her family lived on a homestead that Helen's grandfather had built decades earlier. She had four siblings: two full siblings, Mildred Campbell (Helen Keller) Tyson and Phillip Brooks Keller, and two older half-brothers from her father's prior marriage, James McDonald Keller and William Simpson Keller.
Her father, Arthur Henley Keller (1836–1896) spent many years as an editor of the Tuscumbia North Alabamian and had served as a captain in the Confederate Army. The family were part of the slaveholding elite before the war, but lost status later. Her mother, Catherine Everett (Adams) Keller (1856-1921), known as "Kate" was the daughter of Charles William Adams, a Confederate general. Her paternal lineage was traced to Casper Keller, a native of Switzerland. One of Helen's Swiss ancestors was the first teacher for the deaf in Zurich. Keller reflected on this irony in her first autobiography, stating "that there is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his."