Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-01-06

The supreme court prepared 10 adj.
journ and leaders In congress were
called together to discuss adjourn
ment Of both houses and the sending
Of an official delegation to the funeral.
Colonel Rooscvelt's' daughter. Mrs.
Nicholas Longworth and her husband,
Representative Longworth Of Ohio.
left Washington ON an early train for
Oyster Bay.
Secretary Daniels and General
March ordered flags half masted On
every ship and shore station OF the
navy and at every army post and
orders were sent by Secretary of tho
Treasury Glass and Postmaster Cen
eral Burleson to lower the flags OF
public buildings throughout the coun-
try. Secretary Daniels b~roadcasted
by radio a Personal memorandum to
commanding officers of the navy. Be-
fore the wal department heard that
Mrs. Roosevelt desired to have a
, private funeral, arrangements had
been made to consult with the fam
lily in regard to detailing troops to at
tend the services.
Life History of Roosevelt.
Colonel Roosevelt's career has left
, such a vivid impression upon the peo-
pie of his time that it is necessary. to
! touch but briefly pom some of the
more striking phrases of his varied,
interesting and Strenuous life to re-
call to the public mind full details Of
his many exploits and experiences.
Called to the White House in 1901
! after President Mckinley had been
assassinated, Col. Roosevelt. AZ years
Of age, became the youngest president
the United States has yer had. Three
years later he was elected as presi-
dent by the largest popular vote a
! president has received.
Thus Roosevelt, sometimes called a
man of destiny, served for seven years
as the nations chief magistrate. In
a subsequent decade the fortunes Of
politics did not favor him, for, again
a candidate for president-this time
leading the Progressive party which
he himself had organized when he
differed radically with some of the
policies of the Republican party in
1912-he went down to defeat. to-
gether with the Republican candidate.
William Howard Taft. Woodrow Will
son, Democrat, was elected.
Col. Roosevelt's enemies agreed
with his friends that bis life, his
character and his writings represent
ed a high type of Americanism.
VI LyutSA olSCpSiS, poiu III INC"
York,cit on Oct. 81. 1858, in a house
in East Twentieth street, the baby
Theodore was 6, weakling. He was
one of -four children who came to
Theodore and Martha Bulloch Roose-
welt. The mother was of southern
stock and the father Of northern. a
situation which during the early years
of Theodore, juniors boyhood was not
allowed to interfere with the family
life of these children during the Civil
war days.
SO frail that he was not privileged
Ito associate with the other boys in
his neighborhood, Roosevelt was
tutored privately, in New York and
during travels .on which his parents
took the children abroad. A porch
gymnasium at his home provided. him
with physical exercise with which he
combatted a troublesome asthma. His
father, a glass importer and a man
of means, vas his constant COM
panion; he kept a diary; he read so
much history and f%ctional books Of
bookworm; he took boxing lessons;
he was an amateur naturalist; and at
the age OF II he entered Harvard
university. There, ne a not as
prominent as some others in an ath-
letic way. as it Is not recorded that
he made" the baseball and football
teams, but his puny body had under
gone a metamorphosis and before
graduation he became one Of the
champion boxers of the college. This
remarkable physical development was
place shortly after he left Harvard in
1880. He went to Europe, climbed
the Matterhorn, and as a. result was
elected a member of the Alpine club
of London-an organization Of men
who had performed notable feats of
adventure. q
"A few months after his graduation,
Roosevelt married Miss Alice, Lee of
Boston. She died if 1854. leaving one
child, Alice, nov the wife of Repre-
sentative Nicholas Ilongworth Of
Ohio. In 1886 Roosevelt married Miss
Edith Kermit Carow. of New York,
and to them five children were born
Edith, now the wife Of Dr.. Richard
Derby. n four sons. Theodore, Jr.,
Kermit, Archibald and Quentin.
The Dlblic career of the man who
was to become president began not
long after he left college. His pro-
fession was law but the activities that
were to come left him no time in
which to practice it. In 1882, 1888
and 1884 he was elected to the New
York State Assembly where his efforts
on behalf of good government and
civil service reform attracted atten-
ton. When the Republican National
convention of 1884 was held. in Chi
cago, he was chairman Of the New
York state delegation.
After this experience he dropped
out of politics for two years. Going
west, he purchased ranches along the
Little Missouri river, in North Dakota,
and divided his time between outdoor
sports, particularly hunting. and lit
erary work. Here he laid the foun-
dation for his series of books, 1.-THE
Winning of the West.' which was
published from 1889 to 1895, and of
other volumes of kindred character.
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