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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cherylkubucko, post: 507433, member: 9624&quot;]off by 4 min.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Theodore Roosevelt</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>On this day in 1884, future President Theodore Roosevelt’s wife and mother die, only hours apart. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><b>First marriage and response to catastropic loss</b></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Hathaway_Lee_Roosevelt" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Hathaway_Lee_Roosevelt" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #0000ff">Alice Hathaway Lee</span></a> (July 29, 1861 in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chestnut_Hill,_Massachusetts" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chestnut_Hill,_Massachusetts" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #0000ff">Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts</span></a> – February 14, 1884 in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #0000ff">Manhattan</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #0000ff">New York</span></a>) was the first wife of Theodore Roosevelt and mother of their child, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Roosevelt_Longworth" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Roosevelt_Longworth" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #0000ff">Alice</span></a>. Roosevelt&#039;s wife, Alice died of an undiagnosed (since it was camouflaged by her pregnancy) case of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidney_failure" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidney_failure" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #0000ff">kidney failure</span></a> called, in those days, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bright%27s_disease" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bright%27s_disease" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #0000ff">Bright&#039;s disease</span></a> at 2 pm two days after Alice Lee was born. Theodore Roosevelt&#039;s mother had died of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoid_fever" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoid_fever" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #0000ff">typhoid fever</span></a> in the same house, on the same day, at 3 am, some eleven hours earlier. After the near simultaneous deaths of his mother and wife, Roosevelt left his daughter in the care of his sister, Anna &quot;Bamie/Bye&quot; in New York City. In his diary he wrote a large X on the page and wrote &quot;the light has gone out of my life.&quot; (See diary photo).</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=tdihArticleCategory&amp;displayDate=02/14&amp;categoryId=presidential" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=tdihArticleCategory&amp;displayDate=02/14&amp;categoryId=presidential" rel="nofollow">http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=tdihArticleCategory&amp;displayDate=02/14&amp;categoryId=presidential</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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