The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-01-06
Former President Died AT
4 O'clock This Morning At
His Home AT Oyster Bay
ONE NATIONS NOTED MEN HAS GONE; FLAGS ON ALL
BUILDINGS In WASHINGTON In THE AvY AND IN ARMY CAMPS
AT HOME AND ABROAD ORDERED TO FLY AT HALF MAST
Funeral To Be Held Wednesday
Immediate Cause His Death Was Due Judgement In the Lung Of
Cot Of Blood From Broken Vein

he differed radically with some Of tho
policies. of the Repblican Party in
1912-he went down to defeat, to.
gether with the Republican candi'
date, William Howard Taft. Wood
row Wilson, Democrat, was elected.
COL Roosevelt's enemies agreed
with his friends that his life, his
character and his writings represent
ed q high type Of Americanism.
OF Dutch ancestry, born in New
York City on October ~, 1858, In .
house in East Twentieth Street, the
baby Theodore was weakling. He
was one OF four children who cams
to Theodore and Martha Bulloch
Roosevelt. The mother was of South.
ern stock and the father Of Northern,
q 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
to associate with the other boys in
his neighborhood, Roosevelt was tu'
Itorcd privately, in New York and dur
ing travels on which his parents took
the children abroad. A porch gym
Fnasium at his home provided him
with physical exercise with which he
combatted a troublesome asthma. His
fhtlssr. d glass importer and man
OF means, was his constant acompan.
ion; he kept a diary; he read so much
history and fictional books Of adven-
ture that he was known as book
worm; 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 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 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 member of the AL.
pine Club Of London,-an organiza.
ton of men who had performed not.
able 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 Rep.
resentative Nicholas Longworth 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, and four sons, Theodore, 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 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 ef
forts on behalf of good government
and civil service reform attracted at
tention. When the Republican Ma
tional Convention of 1884 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
vast, he purchased ranches along the
Little Missouri River, in North Dako
ia, and divided his time between out
door sports, particularly hunting, and
literary work. Here he laid the foun
dation for his series of books, THE
Winning of the West, which was
published from 1889 to 1895, and Of
other volumes of kindred character.
Returning to New York he became
the Republican candidate for Mayor
In 1886. He was defeated. Presi
dent Harrison in 1889 appointed hin
member Of the United States Ciyi
Service Commission and PresidenI
Cleveland continued him in this ofict
which he resigned In 1896 to become
New York City's police commissioner
"a thing that aftracted ma To INF.