The Triumphant Life of Theodore Roosevelt edited by J. Martin Miller

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entered upon college life at Harvard. They had been con-
stantly together during their earlier school days, and in those
old days they had spent many hours together over their games
in Union Park. Her home was in Fourteenth Street, very
near Union Square. This was in a very aristocratic part of
the city in those daj's, a strictly residential district, and the
great business blocks that now surround Union Square had
not begun to appear in that day.
Young Theodore and Edith met at the same birthday par-
ties and went over their lessons together in the same school.
This was sufficient reason for their intimacy. Later, Edith was
placed in a fashionable boarding school. Miss Comstock's
School, where Edith attended, had on its rolls many young
ladies at that time who were great friends of Edith's, and to
this day vividly recall her romance with young Theodore. It
is unnecessary to say that they all enjoy relating it.
Edith's father was a business man, and her mother was,
by birth, Miss Gertrude Tyler of Connecticut. Her father
was General Tyler. Her family was one of wealth and social
position. Theodore occupied a similar position in society, and
his father was a lawyer and judge and had been in turn an
alderman, a member of the Legislature at Albany, and a rep-
resentative in Congress.
SHE LIKED TEDDY ROOSEVELT
Edith Kermit Carow has said, in the happy, established
days since her marriage, that she had "liked Teddy Roosevelt
in those distant times because he could do so much more than
she could." And yet he was a delicate stripling of a boy, while
she was possessed of all the vigor of a healthy girlhood. But
Theodore Roosevelt had strong will power, determination,
independence and sincerity, and this was enough for Edith,