![]() As teenaged sweethearts, they spent hours together during the summer at Oyster Bay, Long Island. She was his sister’s best friend and his first playmate outside of the family. Theodore Roosevelt was three years older than Edith. The family’s ancestral home was in Brooklyn, Conn. Her great-grandfather fought at the Battle of Bunker Hill. Edith was the granddaughter of Daniel Tyler, a Union general during the Civil War and railroad president. Theodore was the son of socialite Martha Stewart Bulloch and prominent businessman and philanthropist Theodore Roosevelt. ![]() But then in 2018, historian Lewis Gould wrote a biography of Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt that revealed an unflattering side to her. For decades, she enjoyed a sterling reputation among historians for her performance in the role. ![]() Their childhood friendship blossomed into teen-aged romance, but then Roosevelt went away to college and met Alice Lee.įifteen years into her own marriage to Roosevelt, she found herself presiding over the White House as First Lady. ![]() Edith, born in Norwich, Conn., on August 6, 1861, grew up next door to the bridegroom in the fashionable Gramercy Park section of New York City. ![]()
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