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Helen Keller beat out a moon rocket, a Cherokee chief and other symbols for a spot on Alabama's state quarter, which will be the first U.S. coin in circulation to include Braille. Click here for article.
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Helen Adams Keller was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama, on June 27, 1880. She was the first child of Kate Adams Keller and Captain Arthur Keller, a former officer of the Confederate army and publisher of the newspaper The North Alabamian. She was a bright, independent child until her second winter, when she had a bout with a disease called by the doctors of the time “brain fever”. The doctor did not expect her to live. When she did survive, it took the Kellers a few days to realize that the baby's hearing and sight were lost.
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The house where the Kellers lived in Alabama was a simple, white clapboard house that was built in 1820 by Helen's grandparents, David and Mary Fairfax Moore Keller. David was the son of Caspar Keller, a native of Switzerland who had immigrated to Maryland and owned large tracts of land in Alabama. (Ironically, another of Helen's Swiss ancestors was the first teacher of the deaf in Zurich. He later wrote a book about their education.) Helen's grandmother Mary was a daughter of Colonel Alexander Moore, one of Lafayette's aides who was present at Lord Cornwallis's surrender at Yorktown, and a second cousin of Robert E. Lee.
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Helen Adams Keller was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama, on June 27, 1880. She developed normally until the age of nineteen months, when she was stricken by a severe fever. In Keller's writings, she describes her parents' relief that sherecovered from the fever, touching on the irony that, in their early rejoicing, they were unaware that she could no longer see or hear.
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Helen Adams Keller was born on 27 June 1880 in Tuscumbia, a small rural town in Northwest Alabama, USA. The daughter of Captain Arthur Henley Keller and Kate Adams Keller she was born with full sight and hearing.
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A symbol of courage who overcame great obstacles, extraordinary Helen Adams Keller (1880-1968) was born on this day on a farm near Tuscumbia, Alabama. An illness, perhaps scarlet fever, robbed of her sight and hearing at age 19 months.
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