The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-06
FORMER PRESIDENT DIED EARLY THIS MORNING; INFLAAAMAT0Ry
 RHEUMATISM AFFECTED HEART
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people Of his time that 1t Is neces- sary to touch but briefly upon some of the more striking phrases of his i varied, interesting and "strenuous" l 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, 42 years
 of age, became the youngest Presi- 1 dent of the United States has ever l had. Three years later he was elect [ vote a President has received.
 vote President has received.
 Thus Roosevelt. sometimes called
 man of dist.uy, served for seven years as the nations chief magistrate. l h a subsequent decade the fortunes | of politics did not favor him, for 1 again a candidate for President-this | time leading the Progressive party which he himself had organized
 when he differed radically with some 1 of the policies of the Republican party in 1912-he went down to de- i feat, together with the Republican
 candidate, William Howard Taft.
 Woodrow Wilson, Democrat, was 1 elected.
 Col. Roosevelt's enemies agreed
 with his friends that his life, his
 character and his writings represent
 ed a high type of Americanism. Of Dutch ancestry born in New
 York City on Oct 27, 1858, in house | In East Twentieth street, the baby
 Theodore was a weakling. He was
 one of four children who came to | Theodore and Martha Bulloch Roose-
 welt The mother was of Southern | stock, and the father of Northern. a
 situation which during the early
 years of Theodore, Juniors boyhood
 vas not allowed to interfere with the
 family life of these children during
 the Civil War days.
 So fraiI that he was not priviliged
 to associate with the other boys In
 his neighborhood, Roosevelt was tu-
 tored privately, in New York and
 during travels on which his parents
 took the children abroad. A porch | gymnasium at his home provided him
 with physical exercise with which
 he combatted troublesome asthma
 His father, glass importer and z
 man of means, was his constant com
 panion; he kept a diary; he read st
 much history and f1ctional books O.
 adventure that he was known as { bookworrn; he took boxing lessons
 was an amateur naturalist; and a
 the age of 17 he entered Harvard
 Univ ersity.
 A few months after his graduation | D n
 Boston. She died in 1884, leavini
 one child, Alice, now the wife of Rep
 resentative Nicholas Longworth O. |. Ohio. In 18s6 Roosevelt marie Miss Edith Kermit Carew, of Ney
 York, and to them five children wer
 torn-Ed!th, now the wife of DI
 Richard Derby, and four sons, Theo
 6ore, Jr., Kermit Archibald an v Quentin. Quentin was killed whil a fighting in the clouds above tn : Marne battlefield.
 The public career of the man wb ;. was to become President began nc 8 long after he left college. His pro ' fession was law but the activitie I that were to come left him no tim 6 In which to practice it. In 1882, 188
 l e York State Assembly where his et Il forts on behalf of good governmer e ano civil service reform attracted at 5 tention. When the Republican Ma l. tionaI convention of 1884 was heIt
 ir Chicago, he was chairman of tn $ New York State delegation.
 '- After this experience he droppe # cut of politics for two years. Coin d west, he purchased ranches along tn -- Little Missouri River, in North Ds q kota, and divided his time betwee e outdoor sports, particularly hunting II and literary work. Here he la d the foundation for his series o books, "The Winning of the West l' which was published from 1889 < 1898, and of other volumes of kin( !, red character.
 u Returning to New York he ocean T. the Republican candidate for mayo
 in 1886 He was defeated Preside1 J. Harrison in 1889 appointed him ' member of the United States Civ T. Service Commission and Presidel it, C1veland continued him in this ofic l. which he resigned in. 1895 to becon LA New York City's police commissions lu "A thing that attracted me to tn III office" Roosevelt said at the time l K accepted this appointment, was tn; -u it was to be done in the hurly-burl
 for I don't like cloister life" Hol It esty was the watchword of this at ie ministration, and the two years Of sh occupancy became memorable throus
 the reforms he inauuguFated, attrac U ing the nations attention while hoI, le ing 8 position which was obscure d. comparison with the events to com tn Illicit liquor traffic. gambling, vice III general---of these evils he purged u
 city in the face of corrupt polite ne opponents, and the reputation he e 5. abolished as reformer won him t
 personal selection by President Nj
 Kinley as Assistant Secretary of u
 Navy, in 1907. A year later the Spa F. ish American war broke out.
 The Roosevelt temperament did T u- allow the man to retain a depu a Cabinet position with war offeri & something more exciting. Jeona by Wood, now a Major General rs. France, was then President McKi & ley's physician and one of Roosevelt ,le staunchest friends. IS. The famous Rough Riders were ( Id. ganized by Wood and Roosevelt e. band of fighting men the mention ,ss whose name today suggests immet in ately the word Roosevelt" Tn re came out of the west---plainsmt
 miners, rough and ready fighters W . were natural marksmen, and Wo
 became their Colonel and Teddy"
 he had become familiarly called 1a hoi inlJfa ay7f he Tn comnanv with inc rep,,lars of / ey, Army they took, transports to Cu1 nd landed at Santiago and were soon z