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Theodore Roosevelt Sr. | |
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| Born | Theodore Roosevelt September 22, 1831 Albany, New York, U.S. |
| Died | February 9, 1878 (aged 46) New York City, U.S. |
| Resting place | Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York City |
| Occupation(s) | Businessman, philanthropist |
| Employer | Roosevelt & Son |
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| Parent(s) | Cornelius Van Schaack Roosevelt Margaret Barnhill |
| Family | See Roosevelt family |
Theodore Roosevelt Sr. (September 22, 1831 – February 9, 1878) was an American businessman and philanthropist from the Roosevelt family. Roosevelt was also the father of President Theodore Roosevelt and the paternal grandfather of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. He served as a member of the plate-glass importing business Roosevelt & Son.
Roosevelt helped found the New York City Children's Aid Society.[citation needed] Related to this, and largely through his initiative,
. . . a permanent Newsboys' Lodging house [was] established . . . where nightly several hundred stray boys . . . were given a clean bed in a warm room for five cents, a fraction of what was charged by the lowest kind of commercial flophouse.[1]
He also helped found the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the American Museum of Natural History, and the New York Children's Orthopedic Hospital. A participant in New York society life, he was described by one historian as a man of both "good works and good times".
In December 1877, Roosevelt was nominated to be Collector of the Port of New York but was rejected by the U.S. Senate.
- ^ McCullough, David. Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt. New York. Simon & Schuster.1982