Who Is Helen Keller?
6. Alexander Bell was a Friend
Alexander Graham Bell was a British-American inventor who has been credited with the invention of the telephone. What a lot of people don’t know is that Bell was also a friend of Helen Keller. When she was only 6 years old, Keller’s parents took her to a professor named Julian Chisolm.
Professor Chisolm suggested that Keller see Bell who himself had a deaf wife and founded schools for deaf people. Bell recommended that Keller was to be enrolled in the Perkins Institution for the Blind and it was there that Keller met Anne Sullivan. Sullivan would go on to be Keller’s mentor and her companion for life.
