The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1919-01-06
NATIONAL HERO IS
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letic way. as 1t is not recorded that
he made" the baseball aud football
teams. but his putty body had under
gone 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 1850, He went to Europe.
climbed the Matterhorn, and as q re-
suit was elected member OF the A.
pine club of London--an orean.sa-
tion of men who had performed nn:a-
Bile feats fadventure.
\ few months after his graduation
! Roosevelt married Miss Alice Lee Of
Boston. She died in 1854. leaving
one child. Alice. now the Wife Of Rep
resentative Nicholas Longwor;h os
Ohio. In 1856 Roosevelt married
Miss Edith Kermit Carow OF New
York. and to them five children were
Edith. now the wife OF nrt
Richard Derby, and four sons. rhco-
dore Jr., Kermit, Archibald and
Quentin.
The public 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 10 come left him no time
in which to practice it. In 1852. 1883
and 1854. he was elected to the New
York State Assembly. where his ef-
forts on behalf OF good government
and civil service reform attracted at
tention. When the republican nation
al convention of 1854 was held. in
Chicago. 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 be
tween outdoor sports, particularly
hunting, and literary work. Here
he laid the foundation for his series
of books, The Winning of the West, '
which was published from 1889 TO
1896, and of other volumes of kin
dred character.
Returning TO New York he be-
came republican candidate for mayor
in 1856. He was defeated Presi-
dent Harrison in 1889 appointed him
a member of the United States civil
service commission, and President
iCleveland continued him in this Of
fee, which he resigned in 1895 to
become New York's police commits
jsioner.
"A thing that attracted me to
this Office" Roosevelt said at the time
he accepted this appointment, was
that it was to be done in the hurly-
burly. for | don't like the cloister
life" Honesty was the watchword
of this administration, and the two
years OF his occupancy became mem
;orable thru the reforms he inaugu
rated, attracting the nations atten-
tion while holding a position which
events to come. Illicit liquor traffic
gambling, vice in general-of these
evils he purged the city in the face OF
corrupt political opposition, and the
reputation he established as re-
former won him the personal selec-
ton by President Mckinley as as
sistant secretary of the navy in 1897.
A year later the Spanish American
war broke out.
The Roosevelt temperament did
not allow the man to retain a deputy
cabinet position with war offering
something more exciting. Leonard
Wood. now major general in
ley's physician. and one of ROose-
velt's staunchest friends.
The famous Rough Riders were or
ganized by Wood and Roosevelt
| band OF hghtlng men the mention OF
whose name today suggests immedi-
ately the word Roosevelt. They
came out of the West-plainsmen
miners, rough and ready fighters who
were natural marksmen, and Wood
became their colonel and Teddy" as
he had become familiarly called by
the public, their Lieutenant Colonel
In company with the regulars Of the
army they took transports TO Cuba,
landed at Santiago, and were soon
engaged in the thick OF the battle
Among the promotions which this
hardy regiments gallantry brought
about were those of Wood to Briga-
dier General and Roosevelt to Col
onel-and thi stitle Roosevelt cher
ished until the end. Some Of the