- The second wife of President Theodore Roosevelt -
( 1861-1948 )
* List of the stories
she appears in :
- F PM 01201 C : "The Sharpie of the Culebra Cut" (Lo$#10b), from 2001, by Don Rosa. |
* Her biography :
Edith Carow Roosevelt
was the second wife of Theodore Roosevelt,
who served as president of the United States from 1901 to 1909. While first
lady, she had to manage both her White House social duties and a large
family of six children. She skillfully handled both jobs. Born in 1961
in Norwich, Connecticut, into a family that had become wealthy from a shipping
business, she grew up in New York City when she met Theodore Roosevelt
('Teedie") and his sister Corinne, and became friend with them. 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. She married Theodore Roosevelt in 1886, two years
after his first wife Alice's death, putting the tragedy behing them, and
they settled down in a house on Sagamore Hill, at Oyster Bay. She raised
the five children she had with him, but also the daughter he had with Alice
along with her own children. She made organizational changes in the
operations of the White House. She arranged to have the family's living
quarters moved so the family would have more privacy. She escorted her
husband during his visit at Panama in 1906.
Mrs. Roosevelt lived almost 30 years after her
husband's death in 1919. She traveled widely after his death and spent
her later years at the family home in Oyster Bay, New York. She died on
September 30, 1948, at the age of 87.
* Her place in the Barks/Rosa stories universe
:
She meets Srooge and his sisters in 1906, in the
Presidential Train, while she visits Panama with her husband Theodore
Roosevelt. In this story, she's just referred as President Roosevelt's
wife. She isn't called by her first name.
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