The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1919-01-11

DaDy Theodore was q WeakllnS. 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 was not
allowed to interfere with the family
life of these children during the Civil
war days.
Enters Harvard University.
At the age of IL he entered Harvard
university. There, he was not as prom
inent as some others in an athletic
| way, as it is not recorded that he
made" the baseball and football
teams, but his puny body had under
gone metamorphosis and before
graduation he became one of the cham
pion boxers of the college. This re-
markable physical development was
emphasized by something which took
place shortly after he left Harvard in
1880. He went to Europe, climbed
the Matterhorn, and as result was
elected member of the Alpine. club
of LondOn-an organization OF men
who had performed notable feats of
adventure.
| Married Boston Girl.
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 Repre-
sentative Nicholas Longworth of Ohio.
In 1886 Roosevelt married Miss Edith
Kermit Carow tot New York, and to
item five children were borm-~-Ethel,
now the wife of DR.. Richard Derby,
and four sons, Theodore, Jr., Kermit,
Archibald and Quentin.
Public Career.
| 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, 1883 and
1884 he was elected to the New York
State assembly, where his efforts on
behalf of good government and civil
service reform attracted attention.
When the Republican National con-
vention of 1884 was held, in Chicago,
he was chairman of the New York
State delegation.
Quit Politics Temporarily.
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 between outdoor
sports, particularly hunting, and liter
airy work. Here he laid the founda-
ton for his series of books, 1.-The Win
ming of the West" which was pub
lished from 1889 to 1896, and of other
volumes of kindred character.
Mr.. Roosevelt, it has been said, was
keenly disappointed when he did not
receive the Republican nomination for
President in 1916. At the same time,
however, he refused to follow the ad-
vice of some of his staunchest follow
ers that he again head the Progress
sive party ticket. Instead he pre-
vailed upon the Progressive party to
make Charles Evans Hughes, the Re-
publican candidate, its own choice.
He campaigned for Mr.. Hughes.
With the reelection of Mr.. Wilson,
and Americas entry into the world
war soon after, Roosevelt immediate.
ly supported the President and bit
terly assailed the pro-Germans, pact.
fists and other type of men who at.
tempted to delay speeding up the war
Will Be Ranked High by Historians.
At the height of his public and polit.
ical career, during the four years OF
the term for which he had been elect
led. Roosevelt accomplished achieve
ments which historians will rank high
in the international and industrial
progress of the country. They includ
ed his influential negotiations which
conducted at Portsmouth, N. H., ef
fected peace between Russia and ia
pan; maintenance of the Monroe doc
trine at a period when European
Ipowers were interested in the affairs
of Venezuela; the recognition of Pan
ANA as a Republic and his treaty
with Panama by which the inter
oceanic canal through that country
was put under way; and the settle
ment. through his moral influence II
the face of situation in which there
was no adequate federal legislation, O.
the Pennsylvania coal mine strike
For his part in terminating the Russo
Japanese conflict he was awarded the
Nobel Peace prize in 1906. Four year.
later, once more private citizen, HI
was special ambassador from thu
United States at the funeral of KIM
Edward VII of England.
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