Original: Born in Norwich , Connecticut , the daughter of Charles Carow ( 1825 -- 1883 ) , a merchant , and the former Gertrude Elizabeth Tyler ( 1836 -- 1895 ) and a granddaughter of Daniel Tyler who was a general in the American Civil War , Edith grew up next door to Theodore '' T.R. '' Roosevelt in New York and was best friends with his younger sister Corinne .
Simplified: They settled down in a house on Sagamore Hill , at Oyster Bay , headquarters for a family that added five children in ten years : Theodore Jr. , Kermit , Ethel Carow , Archibald Bulloch , and Quentin .