Who Was Hellen Keller’s Father, Arthur H. Keller

Helen Adams Keller was one of the American authors and disability rights advocates. Besides that, she was a political activist and lecturer, born in West Tuscumbia, Alabama. When Helen Keller was only 19 months old, she suffered from a bout illness which led to loss of sight and hearing.

Helen started communicating using home signs when she was seven years old. At the age of seven years, she met her first teacher and lifelong companion, Anne Sullivan. Sullivan taught Helen language, reading, and writing. She then had education at specialist and mainstream schools, where she proceeded to Radcliffe College.

Keller was the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree in the United States. She went on to write numerous books, hundreds of speeches, and essays on various topics ranging from Mahatma Gandhi to animals.

Who was Helen Keller’s Father?

Arthur Henley Keller born in 1836 was the father of Helen Keller. Helen was the daughter of Catherine Everett and she had four siblings. Arthur was an officer in the Confederate Army and editor of the North Alabamian newspaper.

Arthur was educated in Tuscumbia and received instructions from Governor Lindsay. When he was nineteen years old, he entered the law department of the University of Virginia. By the age of 22, he had received his license to practice.

He enlisted in the Confederate Army in 1861 as a private. He remained until July 1864vwhen he was made the paymaster of General Roddy’s division, a position he held to the close of the war. After peace returned, he engaged in the receiving and forwarding business at Keller’s Landing until the courts opened.

He then began practicing law until 1874. He went on to purchase the North Alabamian and was the editor for ten years. In 1886, he was appointed the United States Marshal for the Northern District of Alabama, which was confirmed by the Senate in June 1886.

Captain Keller was married to Mrs. Sarah Rosser on November 12, 1867. She died in 1877, leaving behind two sons James McDonald Keller and William Simpson Keller. Keller met Kate Adams one year later and they wed in July 1987. Keller’s family was part of the slaveholding elite but lost their status after the American Civil War.Arthur-H.-Keller

The Early Life and Illness of Helen Keller

Helen Keller spent her early years in their Ivy Green homestead, a home that her paternal grandfather had built two decades earlier. At nineteen months, Keller contracted an unknown disease, which doctors described as acute congestion of the stomach and the brain. Despite recovering, she became blind and deaf.

Keller was able to communicate at the time with Martha Washington, who was two years older and the daughter of the family cook. By age seven, she had developed over 60 home signs which she used to communicate with her family. At the same time, she could distinguish people by the vibration of their footsteps.

Despite Keller having a difficult time grasping language and signs, she was inspired a little after she spelled water and felt it. She went on to become the first deafblind person in the United States to earn an arts degree.

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