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- Birth nameEleanor Grace Twitchell
- Eleanor Gehrig was born on March 6, 1904 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She was a writer, known for A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story (1977) and The Ed Sullivan Show (1948). She was married to Lou Gehrig. She died on March 6, 1984 in New York City, New York, USA.
- SpouseLou Gehrig(September 29, 1933 - June 2, 1941) (his death)
- Father was Chicago Parks Commissioner Frank Twitchell
- Her upstairs neighbor in her apartment on the East Side of Manhattan where she lived after her husband's death was the late boxing great Jack Dempsey.
- On her marriage to Lou Gehrig: "I would not have traded two minutes of joy and the grief with that man for two decades of anything with another."
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