Theodore Roosevelt for Kids: His Life and Times, 21 Activities
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
Roosevelt s request to serve in World War I January 6 1919 Theodore Roosevelt dies in his sleep at Sagamore
Preface The Once and Future President President Theodore Roosevelt wore strands of Abraham Lincoln's hair in this ring at his second inauguration in 1905 Sagamore Hill National Historic Site National Park Service ON THE afternoon of April 24 1865 a family gathered for a sorry task at the home of its leading member Cornelius Roo sevelt Grandfather Roosevelt's windows overlooked Broadway one of New York City's main streets As the Roosevelts and their friends crowded to watch at the windows a funeral procession passed below The parade wound on for blocks as 11 000 military men and another 75 000 ordinary citizens walked by They marched to honor the man whose coffin was pulled by a team of 16 black robed horses The dead man was President Abraham Lincoln Ten days before an assassin had shot and killed him Two Roosevelts who peered out the windows were small boys Theodore and Elliott Theodore whose family called him Teedie was six and a half years old President Lincoln was his hero Lin coln had just won the Civil War when the Union fought against the Confederate South to preserve the United States of America as one nation No one looking out of Grandfather Roosevelt's windows could guess that 36 years from that afternoon Theodore would be president of the United States Nor did they know that as he took the presidential oath of office for a second time Theodore
