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

CHAPTER IV
THE HOME OF THE PRESIDENT
The President's Wife and Family—Mrs. Roosevelt a Domestic Woman—
Receives Many Visitors—The White House Office—How the Business
is Conducted^The President's Official Household—A Visit from Carrie
Nation—Shaking Hands with Three Thousand People in One Day
Marvelous Knowledge of Foreign Countries— The Army and Navy —
The White House Residence—Social Customs—New Year's Day.
Edith Kermit Roosevelt, wife of President Roosevelt, was
Lorn in Norwich, Conn., on Aug. 6, 1861, and is about three
years younger than the President. She is the daughter of
Charles and Gertrude Elizabeth Tyler Carow; granddaughter
of Isaac and Eliza Mowatt Carow, and of Daniel and Emily
Lee Tyler, and a descendant of Isaac Ouereau and Judith
Ouentin (Huguenots), who emigrated from France after the
revocation of the edict of Nantes, first to Holland' and then to
New York City, and of Job Tyler and Mary, his wife, who
emigrated from Shropshire, England, were admitted to the
town of Newport, Rhode Island, 1638 (Colonial Records, Vol.
I, page 92), and settled in Andover, Mass., 1639. She was
educated in New York City, and was married Dec. 2, 1886, to
Theodore Roosevelt.
THE PRESIDENT'S FAMILY
The children of the President and Mrs. Roosevelt are:
Theodore, Jr., born Sept. 13, 1S87; Kermit, born Oct. 10, 1889;
Ethel Carow, born Aug. 10, 1891; Archibald Bulloch, born
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