Edith Roosevelt
Edith Roosevelt ( born August 6 1861 in Connecticut Edith Kermit Carow as; † September 30, 1948 ) was the second wife of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt with extensive charitable commitment. She was from 1901 to 1909, the First Lady of the United States.
Life
Edith Roosevelt was the daughter of Charles and Gertrude Tyler Carow in Connecticut, but grew up in Union Square in New York City in a wealthy and tradition-conscious environment on. Your future husband Theodore Roosevelt Edith knew from childhood. As a little girl she was a friend of Theodore's sister Corinne. The Roosevelt children and Carow - children went into the homes of each other on and off.
Later Edith attended school for young ladies of Miss Comstock. It is reported that Edith loved books about everything and despite Commstockschen pulp refiner an adventurous life preferring a quiet. In the summer they moved often with Theodore, with whom she had a rather comradely friendship, to the Oyster Bay in Long Iceland. One of their sons later stated: "When Mother was a little girl, she must have been a boy! ".
Theodore and Edith lost sight of each other, when Theodore went to Harvard. Only after Theodore's first wife, Alice Hathaway Lee (1861-1884) died unexpectedly, Edith and Theodore came closer again. In December 1886 they were married in London. Back in New York, she settled at Sagamore Hill at Oyster Bay. The couple had five children in ten years:
Even before moving into the White House the family's privacy has been largely removed from the public. Only the wedding of "Princess " Alice (1884-1980) with the Senator Nicholas Longworth (1869-1931) and Ethel's debut was celebrated on a larger scale. Later should be said about Edith that she was "always the gentle, high -bred hostess; Often smiling at what went on about her, yet never critical of the ignorant and tolerant always of the little insincerities of political life ". Theodore Jr. wrote to his father: ". If Mother had been a mere unhealthy patient Griselda I might have grown selfish and inconsiderate in set ways"
She accompanied her husband on the first trip abroad for a sitting U.S. president, which led to Panama on November 9, 1906. Theodore Roosevelt There would even get a picture of the construction work to the Panama Canal. For the trip, the battleship USS Louisiana was selected.
With a mixture of humor and dignity Edith also represented by the tenure of her husband, the Roosevelts. They remained faithful to their elaborate reading - "not only cultured but scholarly ," as her husband once remarked. After Theodore's death in 1919, Edith went travel frequently, but always came back to Sagamore Hill. Later, she was also active for the Needlework Guild, a charitable institution for the collection of clothes especially for the poor, and in the " Christ Church at Oyster Bay". Edith Kermit Roosevelt died 87 years old on September 30, 1948.