While studying at Edgehill, she joined the secret group Theta Tau (based on the sorority of the same name), whose members held meetings and earned badges. By the age of 12, she had begun boarding school, attending several different ones during her teen years, including Miss Emmett's School in New Jersey, the Virginia Female Institute, the Edgehill School, and Mesdemoiselles Charbonniers, a French finishing school in New York.
Juliette's parents raised her with traditional Southern values, emphasizing the importance of duty, obedience, loyalty, and respect. As her cousin Caroline described her, "While you never knew what she would do next, she always did what she made up her mind to do." Education She was dubbed "Crazy Daisy" by her family and friends, due to her eccentricities. The members learned to sew and tried to make clothes for the children of Italian immigrants. She also formed The Helpful Hands Club with her cousins, with the goal of helping others. In addition to writing and performing plays, ashe started a newspaper with her cousins, called The Malbone Bouquet, which featured some of her early poetry. Hobbies Īs a girl, she spent more time on art and poetry than on school work. Juliette developed partial hearing loss as a child before becoming deaf in both ears due to an untreated infection and a small grain of rice. She also had frequent earaches and recurring bouts of malaria.
In 1866, her mother mentioned in a letter that "Daisy fell out of bed – on her head, as usual." That same year, she broke two of her fingers so severely that her parents considered having them amputated. Īs a young child, she was accident-prone and had numerous injuries and illnesses. A few months later, after President Andrew Johnson issued the amnesty proclamation, her father reunited with the family to move back to Savannah. Upon arriving in Chicago, Gordon Low became sick with brain fever, although she recovered without severe complications. Sherman arranged an escort to take her family to Chicago in March 1865. After the Union victory in Savannah the same year, her family received many visits from General William T. In 1864, due to the close proximity of Union troops to Savannah, she moved with her mother and two sisters to Thunderbolt, Georgia. When she was six months old, her father joined the Confederate States Army to fight in the American Civil War. Gordon & Company, and Eleanor "Nellie" Lytle Kinzie, a writer whose family played a role in the founding of Chicago. She was the second of six children born to William Washington Gordon II, a cotton broker with the firm Tison & Gordon, which was later renamed to W. She was named after her grandmother, Juliette Augusta Magill Kinzie, and nicknamed Daisy, a common sobriquet at the time, by her uncle. Juliette Magill Kinzie Gordon was born on October 31, 1860, in Savannah, Georgia.
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