Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1919-01-10
STORY OF COL.
R00SEVEI7'S LIFE
WHO RECENTLY DIED At HIS
HOME IN OYSTER BAY. MASS.
WAS ONE OF GREAT WORKS
Has Left Vivid Impression on the
People-The Nation Nouns.

Colonel Roosevelt's career has left
such vivid impression upon the PEG.
pie OF his time that II is necessary to
touch but briefly upon some Of the
1ore striking phases 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 as.
sassinated, Colonel Roosevelt, AZ years
OF age became the youngest President
the United States has ever had. Three
years later he was elected as Presi.
dent by the largest popular vote .
President had received.
Thus Roosevelt, sometimes called a
man Of destiny. served for seven years
as the nations chief magistrate. In
subsequent decade the fortunes Of
politics did not favor him, for, again
candidate for Presldent-this time
leading the progressive party which
he himself had organized when he DIFF
fered radically with some Of the pol.
icies of the Republican party in 1872
he went down to defeat, together with
the Republican candidate, William
Howard Taft. Woodrow Wilson, Dem
ocrat, was elected.
Colonel Roosevelt's enemies agreed
with his friends that his life, his
character and his writings represent
ed a high type Of Americanism.
or Dutch ancestry, born In New
York city on October ~. 1858, in
house in East Twentieth street, the
baby Theodore was weakiing. He
was one OF four children who came
to Theodore and Martha Bulloch
Roosevelt. The mother was Of south
ern stock and the father OF northern,
a situation which during the early
years Of Theodore, Jr.'s boyhood was
not allowed to interfere with the fam
fly life Of these children during the
Civil war days.
50 frail that he was not privileged
to 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 physi-
cal exercise with which he combatted
a troublesome asthma. His father, q
glass importer and a man OF means,
was his constant companion; he kept
diary; he read SO much history and
fictlonal books Of adventure that he
was known as bookworm; he took
boxing lessons; he was an amateur
naturalist: and at the age OF II he
entered Harvard University. There,
he was not as prominent as some 9TH
ers In an athletic way, as 1t is not re-
corded that he made" the baseball
and football teams but his puny body |
had undergone a metamorphosis and
before graduation he became one OF
the champion boxers Of the college.
This remarkable physical development
was emphasized by something which
took place shortly after he left Har-
ward In 1880. He went to Europe,
climbed the Matterhorn, and as re-
suit was elected a member Of the Al
pine Club OF London-an organization
of men who had performed notable
feats OF adventure.
A few months after his graduation
Roosevelt married Miss Alice Lee Of
Boston. She died In 1884. leaving one
child, Alice, now the wife Of Repre-
Nicholas Longworth Of Ohio.
In 1886 Roosevelt married Miss Edith
Kermit Carow Of New York. and to
them I'VE children were born-Edith.
low the wife OF DR.. Richard Derby, and
four sons, Theodore, Jr., Kermit, Ar
chibald and Quentin.
The public career Of tie man who
was to become President began not
ong after he left college. His pro-
iession was law but the activities that
we're to come left him no time In
which to practice II. In 1889, 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 attention.
When the Republican national con-
,ention Of 1884 was held in Chicago,
he was chairman of the New York
State delegation.
After this experience he dropped out
II politics for two years. Going west,
lie purchased ranches along the Lit
lie Missouri river, in North Dakota.
md divided his time between outdoor
ports particularly hunting. and lit
,rary work. Here he laid the founda-
ion for his series OF books, THE Win
ling of the West" which was pub
ished from 1889 to 1896, and Of other
,olumes Of kindred character.
Returning to New York he became
he Republican cadidate for mayor, m
1856. He was defeated. President
harrison in 1889 appointed him
member Of the United States Civil
,eryice Commission and President
cleveland continued him in this Of
ice, which he resigned In 1895 to be-
ONE New York city's police commits
Toner.
"A thing that attracted me to this ,
flee" Roosevelt said at the time ne
ccepted this appointment, was that