07/21/1899 AD born
Ernest Miller Hemingway is born in an affluent suburb just west of Chicago, to Clarence Edmonds Hemingway, a physician, and Grace Hall Hemingway, a musician.
His parents were well-educated and well-respected in Oak Park,a conservative community about which resident Frank Lloyd Wright said, "So many churches for so many good people to go to."
When Clarence and Grace Hemingway married in 1896, they lived with Grace's father, Ernest Miller Hall, after whom they named their first son, the second of their six children. His sister Marcelline preceded him in 1898, followed by Ursula in 1902, Madelaine in 1904, Carol in 1911, and Leicester in 1915.
Grace followed the Victorian convention of not differentiating children's clothing by gender. With only a year separating the two, Ernest and Marcelline resembled one-another strongly. Grace wanted them to appear as twins, so in Ernest's first three years she kept his hair long and dressed both children in similarly frilly feminine clothing.
Lattitude: 41.8833° N
Longitude: 87.8° W
Region: North America
Modern Day United States
