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Dorothy Emma Howell Rodham (June 4, 1919 – November 1, 2011)〔1920 Cook Co., IL, U.S. Federal Census, Chicago, 2956 Michigan Ave., Jan. 8 & 9, Enumeration Dist. 66, sheet 4 A, page 73 A, line 34, Dorothy Howell, 7 mons. old.〕〔In Hillary Rodham Clinton's June 3, 2008, campaign appearance in New York City following the final primaries of her presidential campaign, she said her mother would be turning 89 the following day.〕 was an American homemaker and mother of First Lady, U.S. Senator, and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. ==Early life== Dorothy Howell was born in Chicago, the daughter of Edwin John Howell, Jr. (1897–1946), a Chicago firefighter, and Della Murray (1902–1960).〔 Her sister is Isabelle Howell (born 1924).〔 Her ancestry included Welsh, English, Scottish, French, and distant Dutch; her paternal grandfather was an immigrant from Bristol in Gloucestershire, and many of her recent forebears had lived in Canada.〔 Dorothy's childhood has been described as Dickensian.〔 The family lived as boarders in a crowded house.〔 The parents were dysfunctional and unhappy〔 and prone to sometimes violent fights;〔 they moved Dorothy amongst various schools,〔 and paid only sporadic attention to the children before divorcing in 1927.〔 The children were then sent on a train by themselves, unsupervised (Dorothy was eight, Isabelle younger), to live with their paternal grandparents in the Los Angeles suburb of Alhambra, California.〔〔〔1930 Los Angeles Co., CA, U.S. Federal Census, San Gabriel Township, Alhambra City, 320 E. Park St., April 4, Enumeration Dist. 1406, sheet 5 B, page 108 B, line 57.〕 The sisters endured harsh and unloving treatment from their grandparents.〔〔 The grandmother favored black Victorian dress and punished the girls for trifling acts.〔 After Dorothy was caught trick-or-treating during one Halloween, an activity the grandparents forbade, she was confined to her room for an entire year except for attending school, and was not even allowed to eat in the kitchen or play in the yard.〔 Having had enough, Dorothy left home at age 14 at the height of the Great Depression, working as a $3-per-week housekeeper, cook, and nanny for a kind-hearted woman in San Gabriel, California.〔〔〔 Encouraged by her employer to read and go to school, Dorothy attended Alhambra High School, where she joined several clubs and benefited from two teachers.〔 After graduating from Alhambra in 1937,〔Alhambra High School Yearbook, ''The Alhambran'', 1937.〕 she moved to Chicago for a failed reunion with her mother,〔〔 who by then had gotten married to Max Rosenberg.〔 Subsequently, she moved into her own apartment there and took office jobs to support herself.〔〔 She later said, "I'd hoped so hard that my mother would love me that I had to take the chance and find out. When she didn't, I had nowhere else to go."〔 Hillary Rodham Clinton later attributed her interest in children's welfare to her mother's life as well as her belief that caring adults outside of family can fill a child's emotional voids.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dorothy Howell Rodham」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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