Edison was born on February 11, 1847 in Milan, in the U.S. state of Ohio. He was the seventh and youngest child of Samuel, a small-time business.
Three of the couple’s first six children had died young. The Edison’s named their youngest child Thomas, and added the middle name Alva to remember a business friend of Samuel. Everyone in the family called him Al.
Little Al mostly had to play alone, as his siblings were much older. He had a difficulty to make friends, too, as he did not hear well. Edison later recalled that, by the time he was twelve, he was “too deaf to hear birds sing.”
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