Happy Father’s Day,Teddy Roosevelt
Fatherhood and Tragedy
Birth of Alice RooseveltHis Daughter
February 12, 1884
Death of Alice RooseveltHis Wife
February 14, 1884
Second Chance of HappinessMarries Edith Kermit Carow
St. George’s Hanover Square, LondonDecember 2, 1886
Roosevelt Family
1884 Alice1887 Theodore1889 Kermit1891 Ethel1894 Archibald1897 Quentin
Quentin, the Baby of the Family
At HomeSagamore HillLong Island
Becomes President on September 14, 1901Family Moves to the White House
Alice
“I can be President of theUnited States—or—I canattend to Alice! I cannotpossibly do both!”
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore, Jr.
“In Washington, when fatherwas civil service commissioner, Ioften walked to the office withhim. On the way down he wouldtalk history to me – not the dryhistory of dates and charters,but the history where youyourself in your imaginationcould assume the role of theprincipal actors, as every well-constructed boy wishes to dowhen interested.”
Kermit
“The house seems very emptywithout you and Ted, althoughI cannot conscientiously saythat it is quiet — Archie andQuentin attend to that.”
Theodore RooseveltLetter to Kermit Roosevelt
Oyster BaySeptember 23, 1903
Archie and Quentin
“Vice-Mother”
“Mother has gone off for nine days,and as usual I am acting as vice-mother. Archie and Quentin arereally too cunning for anything.Each night I spend about three-quarters of an hour reading tothem.”
Theodore Roosevelt
Letter to Kermit Roosevelt
White House
November 15, 1903
“Blessed Quenty-Quee”
Ethel
“I think you are a little trumpand I love your letter, and theway you take care of thechildren and keep down theexpenses and cook bread and arejust your own blessed busycunning self.”
Theodore Roosevelt
Letter to Ethel Roosevelt
White House
June 21, 1904
“Ethel administers necessary discipline to Archie and Quentin.”
Uncle of the BrideWedding of Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt
March 17, 1905 “With President Roosevelt and St.Patrick standing sponsors for herhappiness, Miss Eleanor Roosevelt thePresident's niece, wisely concluded to riskany ill omens concerning a marriage onFriday. The ceremony which united herto her distant cousin, Mr. FranklinRoosevelt, was a particularly charmingaffair. Miss Roosevelt is a tall, fair girl,and as pretty a bride as even a Presidentcould wish to give away.”
The Index (March 25, 1905)
Father of the BrideWedding of Alice Roosevelt and Nicholas Longworth
February 17, 1906
Roosevelt Family in 1907
Outgoing President RooseveltIncoming President Taft
March 4, 1909
Return to Sagamore Hill
Roosevelt Family and the First World War
Death of Quentin RooseveltJuly 14, 1918
"Quentin's mother and I areglad that he got to the front andhad the chance to render someservice to his country, and toshow the stuff that was in himbefore his fate befell him."
Theodore Roosevelt
Oyster Bay
July 17, 1918
Death of Theodore RooseveltJanuary 6, 1919
"Since Quentin was killed he hasbeen sad, only Ethel's little girlhad the power to make himmerry."
Edith RooseveltLetter to Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.
Death of Theodore RooseveltJanuary 6, 1919
“The old lion is dead.”
Archie Roosevelt
FOR MORE ON TEDDY ROOSEVELT AS A FATHER SEE
THE ROOSEVELT FAMILY OF SAGAMORE HILL
BYHERMANN HAGEDORN
AND
THEODORE ROOSEVELT’S LETTERS TO HIS CHILDREN
EDITED BY
JOSEPH BUCKLIN BISHOP
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