Theodore Roosevelt remarries, this time to his childhood sweetheart, Edith Carow, and settles in at Sagamore Hill, the family home in Oyster Bay, New York. There, with his wife and six children ...

After his wife’s death in 1884, Roosevelt rekindled a romance with his childhood love and second wife, Edith Kermit Carow (married 1886). They had five children; Theodore, Kermit, Ethel, Archibald, ...

He even paid other children to collect specimens for him ... to organize for the conservation of game and game habitat. Theodore Roosevelt, an avid hunter, joined the fight.

Unlike his cousin, Franklin Roosevelt, who later was stricken with polio, Theodore was a somewhat sickly child who was determined to overcome and defeat his physical ailments which, for the most ...