Anne Sullivan

Birthday	April 14, 1866
Birth Place	Feeding Hills, Massachusetts
Death	October 20, 1936
Place of Death	Forest Hills, NY
Full Name	Johanna (Anne) Sullivan Macy
	or Anne Mansfield Sullivan Macy

She was the daughter of Irish immigrant farmers. She had a brother, Jimmy, who had tuberculosis. Anne's mother died and her father became an alcoholic when she was a kid. At the age of five Anne got trachoma which is a virus infecting the eyes and it can cause blindness if it is not treated. The infection almost left her blind. Two years later Anne's father abandoned Anne and her brother to an orphanage in Tewksbury.
Anne didnt go to school until she was 14 years old. She eventually graduated from the Perkins Institute for the blind in 1886. Her first job was with the Keller family. She worked with the deaf, mute and, blind child, Helen Keller. Helen was only seven years old, and horribly behaved when Anne arrived. Anne taught Helen how to read and write the Braille alphabet. Anne finally went blind.

Sites used: http://www.lkwdpl.org/WIHOHIO/sull-ann.htm

http://www.northstar.k12.ak.us/schools/wlr/elp/wax_museum/2005/sullivan1.html

http://www.afb.org/annesullivan/asmbiography.asp

By: Nicole Trifone