Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1919-01-08
EX-PRESIDENT THEODORE
ROOSEVELT rs DEAD
Passed Away Peacefully He Slep-Drect Cause Of Death
Was lnflammatory Rheumatism-No Organic Trouble.
DEATH OF HIS SON QUENTIN WAS SOURCE
yt OF GREAT SORROW.
proved he and Mrs. Roosevelt might
start some time In May or June.

proved he and Mrs. Roosevelt might
start some time in May or June.
Died While Asleep.
The exact time Of Col. Roosevelt's 8
death was 4.15 a. M, as nearly as
can be determined, for there was no
| person at his bedside at the moment
ne passed away. A minute or two
hefore, his attendant, James Amos,
the man who had been in the employ
! OF the colonel ever since he left the
White House, noticed that the pa-
tient was breathing heavily in his
sleep and went to call a nurse. When
De returned with her the former Pre-
sident was dead Mrs. Roosevelt
was Immediately summoned.
Some Iife History.
Col. Roosevelt's career has left
such a vivid impression upon the
people Of his time that it is neces-
sary to touch but briefly upon some
Of the more striking phases of his
varied, interesting and strenuous"
life to recall to the public mind full
details Of his many exploits and ex-
periences.
Called to the White House in 1901.
| after President Mckinley had been
assassinated, Col. Roosevelt, AZ years
OF age, became the youngest Presi-
dent the United States has ever had.
Three years later he was elected as
President by the largest popular vote
President has received.
Thus Roosevelt, sometimes called
man Of destiny, served for seven
years as the nations Chief Execu-
tive. In a subsequent decade the
fortunes Of politics did not favor
him. for, again candidate for Pre-
sident-this time leading the Pro-
gressive Party, which he himself had
organized when >he differed radically
from some Of the policies Of the Re-
publican party in 1912-he went
down to defeat, together with the
Republican candidate, William How
ard Taft. Woodrow Wilson, Demo
crat. was elected.
Col. Roosevelt's enemies agreed
with his friends that his life, his
character and his writings represent
cd high tyne of Amcricanism.
or Dutch ancestry, born in New
york city on October 27, 1858, in
house on East 20th street, the baby
theodore was a weakling. He was
one Of four children who came to
selt. The mother was of Southern
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
family life of these children during
the Civil War.
So frail that he was not privileged
to associate with the other boys in
his neighborhood, Roosevelt was tu-
tored privately in New York, during
travels on which his parents took the
children abroad. A porch gymnas-
ium at his homo provided him with
physical exercise with which he COM
batted a troublesome asthma. His
father, glass importer and q man
or means, was his constant COM
panion; he kept a diary; he read
so much history and flctional books
OF adventure that he was known as
q bookworm; he took boxing lessons:
no was an amateur naturalist, and at |
the age Of II ne entered Harvard
University. There, he was not as
prominent as some others In an ath-
letic way, as 1t Is not recorded that |
ne made the baseball and football |
teams; but his puny body had
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