![]() ‘Bamie’, as she was nicknamed, had a great deal of energy despite her physical challenges and this proved necessary to her family on several occasions. raised money to found the New York Orthopaedic Hospital with Taylor as its first director. ![]() He designed a flexible brace that was so successful in allowing movement that Theodore Sr. Her restricted movement concerned Anna's father who sought the help of a young doctor by the name of Charles Fayette Taylor. Anna was afflicted with a curvature of the spine that led to her being partially crippled and confined by corrective steel braces as a child. ![]() She and her three other siblings were born in the home at 28 East 20th Street. Anna Roosevelt was Theodore’s eldest sibling and was born on January 18, 1855. ![]()
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