The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-15
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
New President of the United States Is
an American First of All.
n in New York, oct. q, 1858.


an American First Of All.
| Born in New York, Oct. q, 1858.
| Educated at Harvard University.
| Member of the New York Legislature,
1Ss2-4. Leader of the minority 1883, leader
of the House 1854
United States Civil-service Commission
er 1SS9-95.
President New York police board 1851
Assistant secretary of the navy 1897.
Organized Roosevelt's Rough Riders 1898.
Lieutenant colonel and colonel, in COM
mand in Cuba.
! Elected Governor of New York, Novem-
Der. 1898. with a plurality of 1873.
! Nominated for Vice President, June q,
1900
Elected Vice President, Nov. g. 1900.
Sworn in as President, Sept. II, on the
| death of William Mckinley.
Residence. Oyster Bay. Long island
Publications, War of 1872" 1882; Hunt
| ing Trips of a Ranchman," 1855; Life Of
Thomas Hart 8enton," 1886; Life of
Gouverneur Morris" 1887; Ranch Life and
! the Hunting Trail" 1885; THE Winning of
the West" 1SS9-95; 1.-The Wilderness Hun
ter 1898; American IDEALS" 1898; THE
Rough Riders" 1899.
| A salient point in the public and private
career of Theodore Roosevelt is that no
one ever had to apologize for him. Away
out the Northwestern border of North
| Dakota 600 miles from st. Paul, where the
! Little Missouri winds its swift way through
| the heart of the Bad Lands, there stands
| the town of Medora. There Theodore ROOse-
| welt first put the eight-pOinted cross brand
4 on his own cattle and gave the outside
| world an initial Illustration of what kind
| of strenuOusness he believed in. Before
that time QSS6-SD his personality had i'm
| pressed itself upon college mates at Co
| lumbia and the small circle of intimate
friends about him in New York citv Bur
| Medora-whether he intended it TO be or
| nOt-w3s a starting point in his public
career. The man who would come West
| who would tote fair, who, bred in
| luxury, would take the worst as well as the
| best of ranch life, without murmur, was
| novelty to the press well the pub
| lie, and cow man" the present fame
| of the new President commenced.
| Julian Ralph asked him once upon time:
| What did you expect to be dream of
! being when you were boy?
| Il do not recOllect that L dreamed at all
| or planned at all" he answered. Il simply
obeyed the injunction. Whatever thy band
/ fndeth to do, do that with all thy might,
and so 81. l took lk up what came along as It
motto, DO the best; If not, then the best
NOT a RICH MAN.
|
families that owned the soil on which the
metropolis of New York has been built But
his personal honesty has never been ques-
toned nor his fidelity TO a trust. Nor has
there been question of his quick sympathy
| with the peoples side of great questions
Between the years 1862 and 1854 the church
| records show that a number of Rosenvelts
| were born on Manhattan island, but the
name was properly spelled in the Dutch
m 1rsF 10 no 70
| published for the years 1852 and IVA. In a
| New York directory for 1860 a Roosevelt
! was living on Beaver street, east of Broad
/ The following are the ROosevelts who held
| public office in New York city prior to the
| advent of the present bearer of the name:
Nicholas Roosevelt Cbolter). alder
John Roosevelt (merchanD, assistant
Cornelius Roosevelt alderman 1854
| In the Assembly ...................1S 1903
James Roosevelt, alderman. 1909
| In the Assembly ................... 1859
James j. Roosevelt assistant alder
l. man loZS -jJ
Supreme Court justice. .......... 1S54-6O
| In the Assembly. ................... 1915 ~
| In Congress ....-....................l 1871 -43
| In old-time records the Roosevelts are
| mentioned as sugar retiners merchants,
| bankers, trustees Of charitable institutions
and public officials. The RoOSeYeltS figured
periodically during the revolutionary war.
| Nicholas Roosevelt was first lieutenant of
| the "CorsicanS'' of 1775 Another Roosevelt
| was officer of an up-country company. One
| of the family served i'm the war of 1872 The
| family also furnished large sums of money
| TO the newly formed continental govern
| ment and periodically accepted the gov
| ernments paper money at the value of coin.
| Theodore Roosevelt was born in his ia
| theirs house at 2S East Twentieth street.
| His people originally lived the Battery,
| but as the town changed gradually moved
| away from the business center. His grand
| father once owned fine residence at one
| of the corners of what is now Fourteenth
! street and Broadway. In blood Mr.. Roose-
| ole T1lf, lfsf,
/ quarters Scotch. Irish and -Hugue-
| not. His mother was a Bonhill and had
| relatives Of the name of Lukin and Craig.
| The Lamontaigne family is in his anceS-
| try, and the Devices of Georgia and South
! Carolina. His uncle, James d. Bullock,
built the noted privateer Alabama, and
| another of the Bullocks fired the last gun
| aboard her. But after all this il said of
| the ancestry chrOniclers agree that Mr.
| Roosevelt owes a great deal TO his father.
| The elder Theodore Roosevelt was one
| of the leading men of his day in the me-
| tropolis-the days of the civil war. He was
| a merchant, philanthrOpist and n lover Of
outdoor life He more than anyone else
| founded the present newsboys lodging
! house system. He devised and carried out
! sion. He could drive a four-in-hand team
| better than any other New Yorker Of his
day He died in ISIS, idolized by the son
| who was 10 take up the lines or the ambi-
| tious part or his life and carry them on.
BOYHOOD INFLUENCE.
What strong direction did your home in
fuence take in your boyhood?" was asked
Mr.. Roosevelt Why" he replied. II was
brought up with the constant injunction
to be active and Industrious. My father
all my peopie-held that no one had a
right to merely cumber the earth: that the
| most contemplate of created beings is the
| man who does nothing. / imbibed the idea
that / must work hard whether at making
money or whatever. The whole family
| training taught me that / must be doing,
must be wOrking-and at decent work. L
made my health what IL is. 1 determined
| 10 be strong and well. and did everything
! 10 make myself so. BY the time i entered
/ Harvard College 1 was able 10 take my
part in whatever sports liked. / wrestled
and spared and ran a great deal while in
college. and though / never came in first.
/ j got more good out OF the exercise than
1 those who did. because / immensely en-
] JOyed IL and never injured myself. / was
/ fond OF wrestling and boxing; L think /
a pnnd daal Of "A uNraaflar IN ihnus "a