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Edith Kermit Carow

The New Netherland Ancestors of

EDITH KERMIT CAROW,

the wife of THEODORE ROOSEVELT



- for Edith Kermit Carow

First Lady



- for Theodore Roosevelt

Author, Founder, Governor, President, Presidential also-ran, State Assembly, Vice President





       __Charles Carow1,11
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EDITH KERMIT CAROW1,11
the wife of THEODORE ROOSEVELT
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      |          __Daniel Tyler1,7,11
      |         |
      |     __General Daniel Tyler1,7,11
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      |    |    |          __JONATHAN EDWARDS2,11
      |    |    |         |
      |    |    |     __Timothy Edwards2,11
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      |    |    |    |    |     ___James Pierpont9,11
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      |    |    |    |    |__Sarah Pierpont2,11
      |    |    |    |         |
      |    |    |    |         |      __Samuel Hooker9
      |    |    |    |         |     |
      |    |    |    |         |__Mary Hooker9,11
      |    |    |    |               |
      |    |    |    |               |     __Thomas Willet10
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      |    |    |    |               |__Mary Willett9
      |    |    |    |                    |
      |    |    |    |                    |__Mary Brown10
      |    |    |    |
      |    |    |__Sarah Edwards1,7,11
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      |    |         |                    __John Ogden6
      |    |         |                   |
      |    |         |               __Jonathan Ogden5
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      |    |         |              |    |__Jane Bond6
      |    |         |              |
      |    |         |          __Robert Ogden4
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      |    |         |         |    |__Rebekah (possibly Wood)5
      |    |         |         |
      |    |         |     __Robert Ogden3
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      |    |         |    |    |     __Jasper Crane4
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      |    |         |    |    |__Hannah Crane4
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      |    |         |    |         |__Joanna Swaine4
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      |    |         |__Rhoda Ogden1,2,11
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      |    |              |               __Matthias Hatfield8
      |    |              |              |
      |    |              |          __Isaac Hatfield8
      |    |              |         |    |
      |    |              |         |    |     __Cornelis Melyn8
      |    |              |         |    |    |
      |    |              |         |    |__Maria Melyn8
      |    |              |         |         |
      |    |              |         |         |__Janneken Adriaens8
      |    |              |         |
      |    |              |     __Matthias Hatfield3,8
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      |    |              |    |    |__(__)9
      |    |              |    |
      |    |              |__Phebe Hatfield3
      |    |                   |
      |    |                   |__Hannah Miller3
      |    |
      |__Gertrude Elizabeth Tyler1,11
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	   |     __Benjamin Lee1,7,11
	   |    |
	   |__Emily Lee1,7
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		|__Elizabeth Leighton1,7,11



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Biography of THEODORE ROOSEVELT

 
The biography of Theodore Roosevelt is listed on his ancestral page.

 

 



Biography of EDITH KERMIT CAROW

 
Edith Kermit Carow knew Theodore Roosevelt from infancy; as a toddler she became a playmate of his younger sister Corinne. Born in Connecticut in 1861, daughter of Charles and Gertrude Tyler Carow, she grew up in an old New York brownstone on Union Square -- an environment of comfort and tradition. Throughout childhood she and "Teedie" were in and out of each other's houses.

Attending Miss Comstock's school, she acquired the proper finishing touch for a young lady of that era. A quiet girl who loved books, she was often Theodore's companion for summer outings at Oyster Bay, Long Island; but this ended when he entered Harvard. Although she attended his wedding to Alice Hathaway Lee in 1880, their lives ran separately until 1885, when he was a young widower with an infant daughter, Alice. Putting tragedy behind him, he and Edith were married in London in December 1886. They settled down in a house on Sagamore Hill, at Oyster Bay, headquarters for a family that added five children in ten years: Theodore, Kermit, Ethel, Archibald, and Quentin. Throughout Roosevelt's intensely active career, family life remained close and entirely delightful. A small son remarked one day, "When Mother was a little girl, she must have been a boy!"

Public tragedy brought them into the White House, eleven days after President McKinley succumbed to an assassin's bullet. Assuming her new duties with characteristic dignity, Mrs. Roosevelt meant to guard the privacy of a family that attracted everyone's interest, and she tried to keep reporters outside her domain. The public, in consequence, heard little of the vigor of her character, her sound judgment, her efficient household management.

But in this administration the White House was unmistakably the social center of the land. Beyond the formal occasions, smaller parties brought together distinguished men and women from varied walks of life. Two family events were highlights: the wedding of "Princess Alice" to Nicholas Longworth, and Ethel's debut. A perceptive aide described the First Lady as "always the gentle, high-bred hostess; smiling often at what went on about her, yet never critical of the ignorant and tolerant always of the little insincerities of political life."

T.R. once wrote to Ted Jr. that "if Mother had been a mere unhealthy Patient Griselda I might have grown set in selfish and inconsiderate ways." She continued, with keen humor and unfailing dignity, to balance her husband's exuberance after they retired in 1909.

After his death in 1919, she traveled abroad but always returned to Sagamore Hill as her home. Alone much of the time, she never appeared lonely, being still an avid reader -- "not only cultured but scholarly," as T.R. had said. She kept till the end her interest in the Needlework Guild, a charity which provided garments for the poor, and in the work of Christ Church at Oyster Bay. She died on September 30, 1948, at the age of 87.

- from "http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/firstladies/er26.html"
 


 


Notes and Sources


   1.  Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume One, Santa Clarita:  Carl
       Boyer, 3rd, 1998.  109.
   2.  Wheeler, William Ogden.  The Ogden Family in America.  Philadelphia:
       J.B. Lippincott Company, 1907.  130-131.
   3.  Ibid., p. 78-84.
   4.  Ibid., p. 58-60.
   5.  Ibid., p. 45-46.
   6.  Ibid., p. 39-40.
   7.  Ibid., p. 239-241.
   8.  Burton, Paul Gibson, "Cornelis Melyn, Patroon of Staten Island and Some
       of His Descendants," The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record,
       68 (1937):  3-17, 132-146, 217-231, 357-365.
   9.  Willett, Albert James, Jr., The Willett Families of North America,
       Volume I.  Easley:  Southern Historical Press, Inc., 1985.  15.
  10.  Ibid., p. 1-15.
  11.  Smith, Elizur Yale, "The Descendants of William Edwards Colonist of
       Connecticut Colony, 1639," The New York Genealogical and Biographical
       Record, 71 (1940):  216-224, 323-333; 72 (1941):  56-61, 124-132,
       213-220, 320-331; 73 (1942):  173-189, 251-254; 90 (1959):  193-197; 91
       (1960):  6-16, 110-118, 153-166, 233-235; 92 (1961):  23-34, 80-88,
       141-152, 221-226; 93 (1962):  13-21, 106-113, 143-148, 221-225; 94
       (1963):  15-26, 75-83, 148-154.

 

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