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Feb 5, 2023 · Explore genealogy for Henrietta (Seuss) Geisel born 1878 Springfield Hampden County Massachusetts, USA died 1931 Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States including ancestors + descendants + more in the free family tree community.
- Female
- May 13, 1878
- Theodor Robert Geisel Jr.
- March 8, 1931
Open Today 10am - 5pm. Siblings. Ted, Marnie, and Henrietta sitting on the front porch at 74 Fairfield Street. Photo from the collection of Peggy and Ted Owens. Ted was the second child born in the Geisel family, two years younger than Margaretha Christine Geisel.
Childhood. Photo of Ted Geisel as a child, c. 1909, Collection of Margaretha and Ted Owens. Beginning in 1876, two generations of Geisels made their living in Springfield, Massachusetts, as master brewers.
Geisel family circa 1905: Nettie with daughter Marnie and Ted with father Theodor. Photo from the collection of Peggy and Ted Owens. Ted’s father, Theodor Robert Geisel, was born in 1879 in the home the family kept adjacent to the Kalmbach and Geisel breweries. He married Henrietta Seuss, Ted’s mother, in 1901.
- Who Was Dr. Seuss?
- Early Life
- Early Career as A Cartoonist
- Books
- Dr. Seuss’ First Book
- 'Horton Hears A Who!'
- 'The Cat in The Hat'
- 'How The Grinch Stole Christmas'
- 'Green Eggs and Ham'
- 'One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish'
Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known by his pen name Dr. Seuss, was a writer and cartoonist who published over 60 books. He published his first children's book, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, under the name of Dr. Seuss in 1937. Next came a string of bestsellers, including The Cat in the Hat and Green Eggs and Ham. His rhymes and char...
Geisel was born on March 2, 1904, in Springfield, Massachusetts. His father, Theodor Robert Geisel, was a successful brewmaster; his mother was Henrietta Seuss Geisel. At age 18, Geisel left home to attend Dartmouth College, where he became the editor in chief of its humor magazine,Jack-O-Lantern. When Geisel and his friends were caught drinking in...
Upon returning to America, Geisel decided to pursue cartooning full-time. His articles and illustrations were published in numerous magazines, including LIFE and Vanity Fair. A cartoon that he published in the July 1927 issue of The Saturday Evening Post, his first using the pen name "Seuss," landed him a staff position at the New York weekly Judge...
Following the war, Geisel and Helen purchased an old observation tower in La Jolla, California, where he would write for at least eight hours a day, taking breaks to tend his garden. Over the following five decades, Geisel would write many books, both in a new, simplified vocabulary style and using his older, more elaborate technique. Over the cour...
His first book,And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, was rejected 27 times before it was finally published by Vanguard Press in 1937.
In 1954, Geisel published this comic classic, which teaches kindness and perseverance from Horton the elephant, features the famous line “a person’s a person, no matter how small.”
A major turning point in Geisel's career came when, in response to a 1954 LIFEmagazine article that criticized children's reading levels, Houghton Mifflin and Random House asked him to write a children's primer using 220 vocabulary words. The resulting book, The Cat in the Hat, was published in 1957 and was described by one critic as a "tour de for...
“Every Who down in Who-ville liked Christmas a lot . . . but the Grinch, who lived just north of Who-ville, did NOT!” For 53 years, the Grinch has lived in a cave on the side of the mountain. This tale, where citizens of Who-ville warm the Grinch to the spirit of Christmas, encourages young readers to do their own good deeds. The book was successfu...
“Do you like green eggs and ham?” Readers follow Sam-I-Am as he adds (and adds) to the list of places to enjoy green eggs and ham and the friends to enjoy them with. The book is written for early readers, with simple words, rhymes and lots of illustrations.
"Did you ever fly a kite in bed? Did you ever walk with ten cats on your head?" Another of Geisel's simple rhyming plots about a boy and a girl and their adventures with their colorful cast of friends and pets, like Gox to the winking Yink who drinks pink ink.”
Geisel family moves to Fairfield Street. The house on Fairfield Street, with the Geisel family sitting on the front lawn. Photo from the collection of Peggy and Ted Owens. Two years after Ted was born, the growing Geisel family moved into a three story house in the Forest Park neighborhood of Springfield.
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Find a Grave, database and images (: accessed ), memorial page for Henrietta Augusta “Nettie” Seuss Geisel (13 May 1878–8 Mar 1931), Find a Grave Memorial ID , citing Oak Grove Cemetery, Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts, USA; Maintained by Kenneth A Schade (contributor ). Mother of Theodor Seuss Geisel Dr. Seuss.
