Little Theodore Junior unfortunately suffered from poor health nearly from birth, and by age three, was diagnosed with severe asthma. Well into the fourth generation, TR Senior was a prominent and well-to-do member of the “Knickerbocker” class, whose glass importing business would insure a life of near-luxury for his family.Īt twenty-two, he married Martha (Mittie) Bullock, a Georgia belle, and they would have four remarkable children: Anna (called Bamie by the family), Theodore Junior, Elliott (Eleanor’s father) and Corinne. Theodore Roosevelt (1831-76) was descended from a long line of Dutch New Yorkers who settled along the Hudson not long after the Pilgrims planted roots in Massachusetts. TR’s father, a Theodore Roosevelt, Senior, was arguably the most important influence in the future president’s life.
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