Theodore Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss) was born on March 2, 1904, in Springfield, Massachusetts. He was the only son of Henrietta Seuss Geisel and Theodore Robert Geisel. He had two sisters, Marnie, two years older and Henrietta 3 and a half years younger who died at the age of 5 because of pneumonia. At the time there was no cure and she eventually died. Theodore enjoyed reading comic strips, writing humorous poems, and drawing cartoons. He spent a lot of his time at the forest park zoo because his father was a park commissioner. After graduating high school, Geisel went to Dartmouth College in 1925, and he later went to studie at the Lincoln Collage of Oxford University in english. After dropping out of Oxford, he traveled throughout europe.
