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Theodore Roosevelt

The New Netherland Ancestors of

THEODORE ROOSEVELT,

and his second wife

EDITH KERMIT CAROW



- for Theodore Roosevelt

Author, Founder, Governor, President, Presidential Also-Ran, State Assembly, Vice President



- for Edith Kermit Carow

First Lady





				     __Claes Martenszen van Rosenvelt1,2
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				__Nicholas Roosevelt1,2
			       |    |
			       |    |__Jannetje Tomas1,2
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			   __Johannes Roosevelt1
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			  |    |     __Jan Barentszen Kunst1,2
			  |    |    |
			  |    |__Heyltje Jans Kunst1
			  |         |
			  |         |     __Adriaen Pieterszen [Van Alcmaer]2,3
			  |         |    |
			  |         |__Jannetje Adriaens1,2,3
			  |              |
			  |              |     __Jan Janszen [Van Breestede]3
			  |              |    |
			  |              |__Elsje Janse Van Breestede2,3
			  |                   |
			  |                   |__Engeltje Jans3
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		      __Jacobus Roosevelt1
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		     |    |          __Sjoerts Olfertszen1
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		     |    |     __Olfert Sjoertszen1
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		     |    |    |    |__Ytie Roelofs1
		     |    |    |
		     |    |__Heyltje Sjoerts1
		     |         |
		     |         |     __Cornelis Janszen Clopper1
		     |         |    |
		     |         |__Margrietje Clopper1
		     |              |
		     |              |__Heyltje Pieters1
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		 __Jacobus Roosevelt1
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		|    |               __Jan Laurenszen Bogert1
		|    |              |
		|    |          __Claes Janszen Bogert1,14
		|    |         |    |
		|    |         |    |__Cornelia Everts1
		|    |         |
		|    |     __Jan Bogert1,14
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		|    |    |    |          __Cornelis Aertszen14
		|    |    |    |         |
		|    |    |    |     __Hendrick Corneliszen Van Schaick1,14
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		|    |    |    |    |    |__Belitje Hendrickse14
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		|    |    |    |__Belitje Van Schaick1,14
		|    |    |         |
		|    |    |         |     __Cornelis Jacobszen [alias Stille]14
		|    |    |         |    |
		|    |    |         |__Neeltje Corneliszen Stille1,14
		|    |    |              |
		|    |    |              |__Claesje Theunis14
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		|    |__Annetje Bogert1
		|         |
		|         |          __Jan Peek1,4
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		|         |     __Johannes Peek1
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		|         |    |    |     __Philippe Du Trieux4
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		|         |    |    |__Marie Du Trieux1,4
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		|         |    |         |__Susanna du Chesne4
		|         |    |
		|         |__Anna Peek1
		|              |
		|              |     __Dr. Gysbert Van Imbroeck1,17
		|              |    |
		|              |__Elizabeth Van Imbroeck1
		|                   |
		|                   |     __Johannes de la Montagne17
		|                   |    |
		|                   |__Rachel de la Montagne1,17
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		|                        |     __Jesse de Forest
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		|                        |__Rachel de Forest17
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		|                             |__Maria Du Cloux
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	    __Cornelius Van Schaack Roosevelt1
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	   |    |                    __Claes Laurenszen Van Schaick1,18
	   |    |                   |
	   |    |               __Emanuel Van Schaick1
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	   |    |              |    |     __Cornelis Laurens18
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	   |    |              |    |__Jannetje Cornelis1,18
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	   |    |              |         |__(__)18
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	   |    |          __Cornelis Van Schaick1
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	   |    |         |    |     __Lucas Gerritszen Wyngaart1,19
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	   |    |         |    |__Margarita Lucaszen Wyngaart1
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	   |    |         |         |     __Jan Franszen Van Hoesen19
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	   |    |         |         |__Anna Jans Van Hoesen1,19
	   |    |         |              |
	   |    |         |              |__Volkie Jurrianse [van Noortstrant]19
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	   |    |     __Cornelius Van Schaick, Jr.1
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	   |    |    |    |               __Hendrick Van Dyck20
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	   |    |    |    |          __Cornelis Hendrickszen Van Dyck1,20
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	   |    |    |    |         |    |__Duvertje Cornelise Botjagers20
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	   |    |    |    |     __Hendrick Van Dyck1
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	   |    |    |    |    |    |__Elizabeth Laeckens1,20
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	   |    |    |    |__Lydia Van Dyck1
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	   |    |    |         |          __Pieter Tjercks15
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	   |    |    |         |     __David Pieterszen Schuyler1,16
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	   |    |    |         |    |    |__Geertruyt Philips Van Schuylder15
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	   |    |    |         |__Maria Schuyler1
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	   |    |    |              |     __Abraham Isaackszen Verplanck16,22
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	   |    |    |              |__Catalina Verplanck1,16
	   |    |    |                   |
	   |    |    |                   |     __Ghislain Vigné22
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	   |    |    |                   |__Maria Vigné16,22
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	   |    |    |                        |__Adrienne Cuvellier22
	   |    |    |
	   |    |__Maria Van Schaick1
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	   |         |               __Joseph Yates1,23
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	   |         |          __Christoffel Yates1
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	   |         |         |    |     __Marselis Janszen23
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	   |         |         |    |__Hubertje Marselis1,23
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	   |         |         |         |__Annatje Gerritse23
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	   |         |     __Johannes G. Yates1
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	   |         |    |    |          __Pieter Winne13
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	   |         |    |    |     __Adam Winne1,12,13
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	   |         |    |    |    |    |__Tannatje Adams13
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	   |         |    |    |__Catelyntje Winne1
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	   |         |    |         |          __Jan Loockermans
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	   |         |    |         |     __Pieter Janszen Loockermans11,12
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	   |         |    |         |    |    |__(__)
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	   |         |    |         |__Anna Loockermans1,12,13
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	   |         |    |              |     __James Duncanson11
	   |         |    |              |    |
	   |         |    |              |__Maria Duncanson11
	   |         |    |                   |
	   |         |    |                   |__Helen Livingston11
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	   |         |__Angeltje Yates1
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	   |              |               __Resolved Waldron8
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	   |              |          __Willem Waldron1,7,9
	   |              |         |    |
	   |              |         |    |__Rebecca Hendrickse8
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	   |              |     __Pieter Waldron1,7,10
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	   |              |    |    |     __Pieter Stoutenburg9
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	   |              |    |    |__Engeltje Stoutenburg1,7,9
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	   |              |    |         |     __Lucas Corneliszen Van Tienhoven21
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	   |              |    |         |__Aefje Van Tienhoven9,21
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	   |              |    |              |__Jannetje Adriaens Haes21
	   |              |    |
	   |              |__Rebecca Waldron1
	   |                   |
	   |                   |               __Cornelis [Van den Bergh]
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	   |                   |          __Gysbert Corneliszen Van den Bergh5
	   |                   |         |    |
	   |                   |         |    |__(__)
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	   |                   |     __Cornelis Gysbertszen Van den Bergh1,6,10
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	   |                   |    |    |__(__)5
	   |                   |    |
	   |                   |__Tryntje Van den Bergh1,7,10
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	   |                        |     __Wynant Corneliszen Van der Poel6
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	   |                        |__Cornelia Wynantse Van der Poel1,6
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	   |                             |__Tryntje Melgerts6
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       __Theodore Roosevelt1
      |    |
      |    |__Margaret Barnhill1
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THEODORE ROOSEVELT1
and his second wife EDITH KERMIT CAROW
      |
      |__Martha Bulloch1



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Biography of THEODORE ROOSEVELT

 
THEODORE ROOSEVELT, was born 27 October 1858 in New York, New York. He was educated at Harvard (AB, 1880) and Columbia Law School. On 27 October 1880 at the First Parish Church (Unitarian) he married as his first wife Alice Hathaway Lee, who was born 29 July 1861 in Chestnut Hill, Boston, Massachusetts, a daughter of George Cabot Lee and Caroline Watts Haskell. She died of Bright's Disease on 14 February 1884 in New York, New York. On 2 December 1886 at St. George's Church, Hanover Square, London, the United Kingdom, he married as his second wife Edith Kermit Carow, who was born 6 August 1861 in Norwich Connecticut, a daughter of Charles Carow and Gertrude Elizabeth Tyler. She died 30 September 1848 on Long Island, New York. 
The Professional Career of Theodore Roosevelt:

     1882-1885  Member of the New York State Assembly
     1883       unsuccessful candidate for Speaker
     1883       Republican Minority Leader
     1884       Member of the New York Delegation to the Republican Convention
     1885       Deputy Sheriff of Billings County, Dakota Territory
     1886       unsuccessful mayoral candidate for New York, New York
     1888       President and Founder of the Boone and Crockett Club (a body
		dedicated to the exploration of American wilderness and nature
		conservation) and Chairman of the Stockman's Association,
		Little Missouri River
     1889-1894  United States Civil Service Commissioner
     1897-1898  Assistant Secretary of the Navy
     1898       Lieutenant Colonel in the Spanish American War heading up the
		cavalry regiment known as the Rough Riders
     1899-1900  Governor of  New York State
     1901       from March to September Vice President of the United States
     1901-1909  from September of 1901 to the end of his second term, 26th
		President of the United States
		     Major Acts and Treaties during his administration
		     Hay-Pauncefort Treaty (Great Britain) (1901)
		     Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty (Panama Canal) (1903)
		     Portsmouth Peace Treaty (Russia and Japan) (1905)
		     Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)
		     Meat Inspection Act (1906)
		     Corporate political contributions prohibition act (1907)
     1909       Contributing editor of Outlook magazine
     1910       United States Representative at the funeral of King Edward VII
		of Great Britain and Ireland
     1912       Progressive wing of the Republican Party nominee for the
		presidency, the unsuccessful Progressive Party candidate

Theodore Roosevelt received a number of honorary degrees and awards:

Honorary LLD from Columbia University, 1899
		  Hoe College, 1901
		  Yale, 1901
Honorary degrees from Cairo University, Egypt
		      Christiania University, Norway
		      Berlin University, Germany
		      Cambridge and Oxford, United Kingdom

Nobel Peace Price in 1906 (also the first American to win a Nobel Prize)

Theodore Roosevelt was the author of the following works:

The Naval Operation of the War between Great Britain and the United
States - 1812-1815 (published in 1882)
Personal Experiences of Life on a Cattle Ranch (published in 1885)
Hunting Trips of a Ranchman (published in 1886)
Thomas Hart Benton (published in 1887)
Gouveneur Morris (published in 1885)
Ranch Life and Hunting Trail (published in 1888)
Winning of the West, 4 vols (published in 1889-1896)
New York City (published in 1891)
The Wilderness Hunter (published in 1893)
Hero Tales, from American History, with Henry Cabot Lodge (published in 1895)
American Ideals and Other Essays, 2 vols (published in 1897)
Contributor to vol 6 of W.L. Clowe's History of the Royal Navy of
England (published in 1898)
The Rough Riders (published in 1899)
The Strenuous Life (published in 1900)
Oliver Cromwell (published in 1901)
The Deer Family, with other authors (published in 1902)
State Papers and Addresses (published in 1905)
Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter (published in 1905)
African Game Trails (published in 1910)
The New Nationalism (published in 1910)
African and European Addresses (published in 1910)
History as Literature and Other Essays (published in 1913)
Theodore Roosevelt, an Autobiography (published in 1913)
Through the Brazilian Wilderness (published in 1914)
Life Histories of African Game Animals (published in 1914)
America and the World War (published in 1915)
Fear God and Take Your Own Part (published in 1916)
The Great Adventure (published in 1918)
The Foes of Our Own Household (published in 1917)
National Strength and International Duty (published in 1917)
The Letters of Theodore Roosevelt, Elting E Morrison and John M. Blum
editors (published in 1951-1954)

Theodore Roosevelt died in his sleep on 6 January 1916 of a coronary
embolism at home, Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York, and
was buried in Young's Memorial Cemetery, Oyster Bay.

 

 


Biography of EDITH KERMIT CAROW

 
The biography of Edith Kermit Carow is listed on his ancestral page.

 

 


Notes and Sources


   1.  Roberts, Gary Boyd, Ancestors of the American Presidents, First
       Authoritative Edition.  Santa Clarita:  Carl Boyer, 3rd, 1995.  55-60.
   2.  Beard, Timothy Field, F.A.S.G., and Henry B. Hoff, F.A.S.G., "The
       Roosevelt Family," The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record,
       118 (1987):  193-201; 119 (1988):  19-34.
   3.  Purple, Edwin R. "Contributions to the History of the Ancient Families
       of New York."  The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 7
       (1876): 117-124.
   4.  Randolph, Howard, S.R., "The House of Truax," The New York Genealogical
       and Biographical Record, 57 (1926):  208-219, 336-344; 58 (1927):  76-81,
       111-116, 267-272, 326-331; 59 (1928):  17-26, 182-190, 289-293, 386-395.
   5.  Stockman, D. Wade, Robert L. Grunwell, Betsy S. Grunwell.  The van den
       Berghs in America.  Lynchburg:  Robert L. Grunwell, 1994.  1.
   6.  Ibid., p. 11-12.
   7.  Ibid., p. 22-23.
   8.  Riker, James, Revised History of Harlem (City of New York), Its
       Origins and Early Annals.  New York: New Harlem Publishing Company,
       1904.  691-692.
   9.  Ibid., p. 695-696.
  10.  Ibid., p. 701.
  11.  Remington, Gordon L., F.U.G.A. "The Duncanson Wives of Four New
       Netherland Settlers: Glen, Teller, Powell, and Loockermans."  The New
       York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 128 (1997):  1-10.
  12.  Purple, Edwin R. "Contributions to the History of the Ancient Families
       of New York - Loockermans."  The New York Genealogical and Biographical
       Record, 8 (1876):  11-16.
  13.  Knickerbacker, Charles, Jr., "The Winne Family," The Dutch Settlers
       Society of Albany Yearbook, 40 (1964-1966):  9-28.
  14.  Purple, Edwin R. "Contributions to the History of the Ancient Families
       of New York."  The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 7
       (1876): 49-64.
  15.  Christoph, Florence, Schuyler Genealogy, A Compendium of Sources
       Pertaining to the Schuyler Families in America Prior to 1800. The
       Friends of the Schuyler Mansion, 1987.  #.
  16.  Ibid., p. 7-8.
  17.  Riker, David M., Genealogical and Biographical Directory to Persons
       in New Netherland from 1613 to 1674.  CD-ROM. Cambridge: The
       Learning Company, 1999.  1026.
  18.  Ibid., p. 1646.
  19.  Ibid., p. 1594.
  20.  Ibid., p. 1566.
  21.  Ibid., p. 1661.
  22.  Ibid., p. 1730.
  23.  Ibid., p. 980.

 

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