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Gracie Hall Roosevelt (1891-1941) was Eleanor Roosevelt's younger brother. Their relationship was one of the most important in Eleanor’s life. Following the death of their parents, the very young Hall and Eleanor lived with their grandmother in Tivoli, New York. Before his death, Eleanor's father had implored her to act as a mother towards her little brother. While at Tivoli, Eleanor doted on Hall, and when he enrolled at Groton in 1907, Eleanor accompanied him as a chaperone. While he was attending Groton, Eleanor wrote her brother almost daily. She took pleasure in Hall's brilliant performance at school, and was proud of his many accomplishments, which included a graduate degree in engineering from Harvard. Hall married twice and had a total of six children. His second marriage ended in divorce in 1937, by which time his life was plagued with alcoholism. He spent the remaining few years of his life near his sister, living in a small building on on the Roosevelt place in Hyde Park until his death in 1941.