Theodore Roosevelt for Kids: His Life and Times, 21 Activities
It is not the critic who counts not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done them better The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood who strives valiantly who errs and comes short again and again who knows the great enthusiasms the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Time Line October Theodore Roosevelt is born to R 27 1858 Theodore Roosevelt Sr and Martha Bulloch Roosevelt in New York City April Theodore Roosevelt and his parents 1865 view Abraham Lincoln's funeral pro cession 1869 The Roosevelt family makes its grand 1870 tour of Europe 1872 The Roosevelts make their second 1873 grand tour including Egypt Palestine and Greece 1876 Roosevelt begins his freshman year at Harvard College 1878 Roosevelt's father dies 1880 Roosevelt graduates with top honors from Harvard College and enters Columbia Law School October Roosevelt marries Alice Lee on his 27 1880 22nd birthday November Roosevelt is elected to New York State 1881 Assembly as he leaves law school 1883 Roosevelt buys two cattle ranches in 1884 North Dakota's
February Alice Lee Roosevelt is born to 12 1884 Theodore and Alice February Roosevelt s mother and wife 14 1884 die on the same day Summer Roosevelt moves to his ranch 1884 in the Badlands November Roosevelt is defeated in an 1886 election for mayor of New York City December 2 Roosevelt marries Edith Ker 1886 mit Carow September 1887 Theodore Roosevelt known as Theodore Roosevelt Jr is born to Theodore and Edith May 1889 May Roosevelt serves as civil ser 1895 vice commissioner Washing ton D C October 1889 Kermit Roosevelt is born August 1891 Ethel Carow Roosevelt is born 1894 Archibald Bulloch Roosevelt is born May 1895 April Roosevelt serves as president of the 1897 Board of New Police Commissioners York City April 1897 Roosevelt serves as assistant secretary of the navy November 1897 Theodore's sixth child Quentin Roo
sevelt is born May 1898 Roosevelt becomes lieutenant Colonel of the Rough Riders July 1 1898 Roosevelt leads the Rough Riders in the Battle of San Juan Heights January 2 1899 Roosevelt is inaugurated as governor of New York November 6 Roosevelt is elected vice 1900 president of the United States September 6 President William McKinley 1901 is shot by an assassin September 14 Roosevelt becomes 26th 1901 president of the United States November 8 Roosevelt is elected to a sec 1904 ond term as president March 4 1909 Roosevelt leaves the White House and goes on safari 1912 Roosevelt runs as third party Progressive candidate for president 1914 Roosevelt nearly dies during Amazon expedition 1916 Roosevelt turns down Progressive Party nomination for president 1917 President Woodrow Wilson denies
