Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1919-01-06
ROOSEVELT CAREER
WAS UNIQUE AMONG
WORLDS LEADERS
Had Served Public Almost Con
stantly During Long Career;
Stood as Typical
American.
PROUD or SONS IN WAR

Colonel Rooscvelt's career has Left such
n vivid impress ION upon the people oi his
time that il Is necessary 90 touch hut
briefly upon some of the moro striking
phases of his varied. interesting an!
'streuunus' life 10 recall To tho public
mind full "details oi hs many exploits and
experiences.
Called to tho White House in 1901 after
President Mckinley had been aSSaSsinhtcd
Col. Roosevelt. ~ years of age. became
the Youngest President the United States
has ever had. Three years later be was
elected rs President by the largest popular
vote President has received
Thus Roosevelt, sometimes called q
man Of destiny. served for seven years as
the nations chiCf magistrate. In a sub
seouent decade tho fortunes Of politics did
not favor him. for again a candidate Tor
PreSidcnt--ths time leading the Pro-
grcssive artv which he himself had
Organized when he differed radically with
some at the policies of the Republican
partv IN l0l2-hc went down tp defeat,
together with the Republican candidate,
William Howard Taft Woodrow Wilson
Democrat was elected.
urGn TYrE or ANERIcaNIsM.
Col RooscvcltS enemies agreed with
his friends that his life his character and
his writings represented high type oi
Amcricanism
Oi Dutch ancestry born in New York
CITY on October ~. 1883 in n house IN
Tast Twentieth street. the baby Theodore
was "a wCa king lie was one Of four cll-
drcn who came to Theodore and Martha
Eulloch Roosevelt The mother was of
southern stock and the father OF Northern.
= situation which during the early years
az Theodore juniors hoyhood was not
allowed 10 interfere with the family liiC
of these children during the Civil War
DAYS
30 frail that he was not privileged 10
associate with the other hoys IN his
neighborhood, Roosevelt was tutorCd
privately, in New York and during
iravrIs on which lis parcnts took tho
children abroad. \ porch gymnasium at
his homo provided lin with physical
cXCrciS with which he c'H''attcd q
some asthma His fathcr. glass importer
and . man of means, was his constant
companion: hc kept diary, hc read 80
rauch history and fctIonsl books Of
adventure that hc was krown - d book
worm; he took boxing lessons he WIS an
amateur naturalist and IN The age ot IL he
entered Harvard University There, he
Was not as prominent as some others in an
athletic way, IS II Is not recorded that
hc made the baseball and otball teams,
but his puny body had UNDERGONE meta
morphosls and before CTaduatIon he he
came ono al the champion boxers of the col
legc. This narkablc phN seal development
vas emphasized hy something which
took placc shortly after he lett Harvard IN
1880. lie went 10 Europe, CHM al the
M4tterhorn, and e i result Was elected 4
member of the Alpine Tub of london
an organization Of men who had dpcriurncd
notable icats Of adventure.
wAs TWICE MARRIED.
\ fcw months after lis graduation.
Roosevelt married Miss Ahcc lcc ~
Pcstcn Shc died in lSSA. leaving one
chl,d Aior nowthe w.fc 81 ReVr, sentative
%ichcls L1ugvorih of Ohio. In 1856
Ro saVeit married Miss dlth Kermit
Carow. e New AcrI and 20 'hcm hvc
childnvn were horn-FfhCl. vi'c q Dr
l.lch "a Derby anl four sons, IhcodorJ
.lr. kcrmp. trchibald and Quentin
The latter was killed IN It." latc war with
Gcranv H. vas IN aviator
The pnhhc career af he man vho was t0
Neco.nr prcslderi lygan not louE .Htc-
p. lcF. college l!i- prOscss sior wss lsV but
I'll. lctlyules hat wora to come lcft hlm no
fI-lc IN WhIch q practice lH 1872 and
lSSl he was elected ~ the New York
state Assembly. where is efforts on be-
If oi good government and civii service
rgform aJtr4 acted attention When the Re-
pur'lcau National Convention - l>Nf Was
bcld. N Chicago he vas chairman a the
,,cw York state delegation
After this cNpc rlcuc- h GtOppcd out Of