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COL, THE0 ROOSEVELT DIES
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man OF destiny, served for seven
years as the nations chief magis-
trate. In a subsequent decade the
fortunes OF politics did not favor
him, for, again candidate for pres
ident-this time leading the progress
sive party which he himself had or
ganized when he differed radically
with 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 writing represent
ed high type OF Americanism,
OF Dutch ancestry, born in New
York City on October 81. 1858. in a
house in East Twentieth street, the
baby Theodore was weakling. He
was one OF four children who came
to Theodore and Martha Bulloch
Roosevelt. 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 inter.
fere with the family life OF these
children during the Civil war days
So frail that he was not privileged
to associated 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 porcf
gymnasium at his home provided
him with physical exercise will
which he combatted a troublesome
asthma. His father, a glass import
er and a man of means. was his con
slant companion;, he kept a diary
he read so much history and fiction
al books of adventure that he wa
known as bookworm; he took box
ing lessons; he was an amateur ma
turalist; and at the age of II he en-
tered Harvard University. There
he was not as prominent as som
others in an athletic way, as It 1
not recorded that he made" tn
haoaha1I and Sanfhan faaypa hut hi
puny body had undergone a meta
morphosis and before graduation h
became one Of the champion boxer
Of the college. This remarkabl
physical development was emphs
, sized by something which took plac
shortly after he left Harvard 1
1880. He went to Europe, climbe
the Materhorn, and as result wa
elected a member of the Alpine Clu
. Of London-an organization OF me
who had performed notable feats {
adventure.
A few months after his gradui
: tion, Roosevelt married Miss Alic
Lee, Of Boston. She died in 1873
leaving one child. Alice, now tt
wife of Representative Nichols
Longworth, Of Ohio. In 1885 Roos
welt married Miss Edith Kermit CT
row, of New York, and to them II,
e children were born-Ethel, now IL
: wife Of DR.. Richard Derby, and fol
q sons, Theodore Jr.. Kermit, Arch
bald and Quentin.
The famous Rough Riders wei
organized by Leonard Wood ar
y Roosevelt band of fighting me
d the mention OF whose name tods
t suggests Immediately the woi
Roosevelt" They came out of Il
west-plainsmen, miners, rough an
ready fighters who were natur
marksmen, and Wood became the
r colonel and Teddy" as he has b.
come familiarly called by the publ
their lieutenant-colonel In compan
with the regulars of the army the
took transports to Cuba, landed ;
Santiago and were soon engaged 1
the thick of battle. Among the pre-
! motions which this hardy regiment
gallantry brought about were thos
Of Wood to brigadier-general an
Roosevelt to colonel-and this It'll
Theodore Roosevelt cherished unit
the end. Some Of the Rough Rider
formed the military escort when
was elected president few year
later.