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Anne Sullivan Macy's Life |
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- 1866
- Anne Mansfield Sullivan is born in Feeding Hills, Massachusetts on April 14.
- 1873
- Anne develops trachoma, which results in severe visual impairment.
- 1874
- Anne's mother, Alice Chloesy Sullivan, dies of tuberculosis
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- 1876
- Anne and her brother Jimmie are sent to Tewksbury Almshouse.
- Jimmie dies in the almshouse several months later.
- 1877
- Anne leaves Tewksbury to have eye surgery at Soeurs de La Charite in Lowell, Massachusetts. The operation is unsuccessful.
- Anne is transferred to City Infirmary, where she has another unsuccessful eye operation.
- Anne returns to Tewksbury.
- 1880
- Frank B. Sanborn, visiting Tewksbury on behalf of the State Board of Charities, heeds Anne's plea to be sent to the Perkins School for the Blind in Boston, Massachusetts.
- Anne is admitted to the Perkins School for the Blind.
- 1881
- Anne has her first successful eye operation.
- 1882
- Anne has a second successful eye operation.
- 1886
- Anne graduates from the Perkins School for the Blind.
- 1887
- Anne accepts the Keller family's offer to tutor their daughter Helen. She arrives at their home in Tuscumbia, Alabama, on March 3.
- Anne communicates the meaning of words to Helen in a break-through experience at a water pump.
- 1888
- Anne, Helen, and Helen's mother, Kate Keller, travel to Washington D.C. to meet President Grover Cleveland.
- Anne and Helen arrive in Boston to stay with Michael Anagnos, Director of the Perkins School for the Blind.
- 1890
- Anne and Helen travel to Horace Mann School for the Deaf in Boston, Massachusetts, where the principal, Sarah Fuller, gives Helen voice lessons.
- 1892
- Anne is elected a member of the American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf.
- 1894
- Anne and Helen arrive at the Wright-Humason School for the Deaf in New York City, where Helen is a student for the next two years.
- Anne delivers a speech at the American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf in Chautauqua, New York. She is too shy to speak and has her friend and mentor Alexander G. Bell speak for her.
- 1896
- Anne accompanies Helen to the Cambridge School for Young Ladies in Massachusetts, where Helen enrolls to prepare for the Radcliff College entrance examinations.
- 1897
- Anne and Helen leave the Cambridge School for Young Ladies and go to live with the Chamberlins at the Red Farm in Wrentham, Massachusetts.
- 1900
- Anne accompanies Helen when she enrolls in Radcliff College.
- 1903
- Helen's autobiography, "The Story of My Life," is published with the editorial help of John Albert Macy.
- 1904
- Anne and Helen purchase a home in Wrentham, Massachusetts.
- 1905
- Anne marries John Albert Macy.
- 1909
- John buys a house in Brunswick, Maine.
- 1912
- Anne becomes a lukewarm Socialist (suggest deleting)
- 1913
- John sails for Europe alone in May.
- Anne and Helen begin lecturing in New England.
- 1914
- Anne and John separate.
- Anne falls and chips an elbow bone.
- Polly Thomson joins the household as Helen's secretary.
- 1915
- Anne is honored with a "Teacher's Medal" at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco, California.
- 1916
- Anne is incorrectly diagnosed with tuberculosis. She leaves for Lake Placid with Polly to recuperate.
- Anne and Polly leave Lake Placid and sail to Puerto Rico.
- 1917
- Anne and Polly return to the United States in late April.
- Anne, Helen, and Polly travel to Lake Catherine to safeguard Anne's fragile health.
- The three women move into a house in Forest Hills, New York.
- 1918
- Anne, Helen and Polly travel to Hollywood to make a movie "Deliverance."
- 1920
- Anne and Helen make their vaudeville debut in Mount Vernon, New York.
- 1922
- Anne and Helen's vaudeville career ends due to Anne's exhaustion and failing vision.
- 1924
- Anne, Helen, and Polly join the American Foundation for the Blind.
- 1927
- By now, Anne and Helen have addressed 250,000 people at 249 meetings in 123 cities on the subject of blindness.
- 1927-1930
- Anne's vision deteriorates significantly over three years.
- 1928
- Anne struggles to help Helen finish her book titled "Midstream."
- 1929
- Dr. Conrad Berens removes Anne's right eye.
- 1930
- Anne, Helen, and Polly take a vacation trip to Ireland, Scotland, and England.
- 1930-1931
- Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania wishes to honor Anne and Helen. Helen accepts but Anne refuses.
- 1932
- John dies at the age of 55.
- Anne accepts an honorary degree from Temple University, Pennsylvania.
- 1933
- During a trip to Scotland Anne suffers from an outbreak of carbuncles.
- 1936
- Anne dies on October 20.
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