Eleanor Reynolds Abbott
Personal Information
Born: 1910
Died: 1988
Country of Birth: Canada
Nationality: USA
Ethnicity: White
Education
Unknown
Professional Life
Field of Study: Inventor
Institution/Corporation: Milton Bradley
Degrees & Memberships: None found
Awards & Achievements
Awards: None found
Achievements: 1948 invented Candy Land while a patient in a hospital in San Diego while recuperating from polio; game was meant to distract the children in her ward; she was a teacher by profession
Inventor of Candy Land
Original game featured a boy in a leg brace because braces were common apparatuses for polio patients
She created the game to entertain children in the hospital ward she was in who had polio like her; the game was meant to distract them from their pain
she donated all the money she received from the game to charities dedicated to serving children in need
the game was inducted into the National Hall of Fame in 2005
she contracted polio at age 36
she scratched out the original game on butcher paper
she sold the game to Milton Bradley & it went on sale in time for Christmas 1949
almost nothing is known about her life except for her illness, hospital stay & creation of Candy Land