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The Newman S. Hungerford Museum Fund, 2013.113.1  © 2013 The Connecticut Historical Society.
Edith Kermit Carow
The Newman S. Hungerford Museum Fund, 2013.113.1 © 2013 The Connecticut Historical Society.

Edith Kermit Carow

American, 1861 - 1948
BiographyEdith Kermit Carow Roosevelt was born on 6 August 1861 in Norwich, Connecticut, the daughter of Charles Carow (1825-1883) and his wife Gertrude Elizabeth Tyler (1834-1895). She married future United States President Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) on 2 December 1886 as his second wife. They had five children: Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. (1887-1944); Kermit (1889-1943); Ethel (1891-1977); Archibald Bullock (1894-1979); and Quentin (1897-1918). Edith died on 30 September 1948 in Oyster Bay, New York, and is buried ther at Young's Cemetery.
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