Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1901-09-21
SUCCESSOR OF M'KINLEY
Varied Career of Theodore
Roosevelt, the New President.
AUTHOR, SOLDIER AND STATESMAN
Entered Political Life Soon After
Leaving College-His Achievements
In Politics, War and Literary Pur.
suits Have Been Notable Great
Lover of Hunting and Athletics.

Lover OF Hunting ana Athlet1CA.
Theodore Roosevelt, who has become
president of the United States through
the death of Mr.. Mckinley, for two
decades past has been one of the most
unique and picturesque figures in
American public life, says the New
York Times. His diversified and Wig
orous activities have not only brought
him recognition and advancement in
political life, but have won him renown
upon the field of battle, in the Bad
Lands of the west as ranchman, hunt
err and cowboy and also in the more
peaceful pursuit of honors In the liter
airy world.
Mr.. Roosevelt the man Is the exact
physical antithesis of Theodore Roose-
welt the boy, though the mental charac-
teristics exhibited in early youth by
the president are conceded to be the
same as those which have now made
him famous.
From O romantic and novelistic point
of view Theodore Roosevelt started life
with two of the greatest handicaps an
ambitious youth could have-wealth
and i'll health. In further contraven-
ton Of we'll established tradition con-
corning national heroes the president
was born in a great city. His birth
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New York city; the date, Oct. q, 1853,
which makes him the youngest of all
the presidents. His father, Theodore,
was wealthy descendant of an old
Knickerbocker family and was well
known throughout the city as philan-
thropist and patriot His mother was
a descendant Of Archibald Bullock,
first president of Georgia during the
Revolution.
Eight generations of President Roose-
velt's family have lived in New York,
and from the middle Of the seventeenth
century the name has been common in
the annals of the city. having been al
most equally prominent in political,
business and social affairs. The found
er of the family in America was klass
Marenson Roosevelt, who came from
Holland in 1641 and settled in New
York.
The young Theodore is described In
early youth as weak eyed, pig chest
ed boy, too frail to take part in the
sports of lads of his age" Though
frail, however, young Theodore, or
"Teddy," as he was Familiarity called
by his playmates, name which chung
to him in later years-was not at all
lacking in ambition or in courage. In
the veins of his ancestors there flowed
Dutch, Irish, Scotch and French Hu-
guenot blood.
HE obtained his name," writes one
of his biographers, from the Dutch,
from the Scotch his obstinacy, from the
French his impetuosity and from the
Irish his 'blarney, or gift of tongue"
Young Roosevelt was sent to private
schools during his early school years
and preparation for Harvard universe
tv to avoid the rough treatment Of boys
in the public schools. He entered Har-
ward with the determination to make a
man of himself mentally and physical
". BY obedience to the laws Of health
and careful exercise the puny, sickly
boy grew to robust manhood. At Har-
ward the tastes Of young Roosevelt al
ready exhibited, for natural history
and hunting were plainly manifested.
His rifle, with which the had roamed
the woods in summer near his Oyster
Bay home, with the trophies Of the
chase. were the most conspicuous oh.
1ects in his room. Live turtles, other
animals and insects were kept fire.
quently In his room. His stubborn de-
Tense of his own convictions even
against the opinion Of his instructors
are still remembered by his classmates
with vividness.
Athletes at Harvard received from
him due consideration. He soon be-
came the champion lightweight boxer
in the gymnasium. Not long slnce Mr..