FROM DAYS GONE BY January17, 1919

January 17, 1919.

Col. Theodore Roosevelt died in his sleep at 4:15 am Monday morning, January 6, at his home on Sagamore Hill, in the village of Oyster Bay, New Jersey, from an attack of sciatica and rheumatism which struck him on New Year's Day. No one thought the attack was so serious as since that time he had been sitting up, talking and joking with his wife and visitors to his home and to his three doctors.
The former president sat up most of Sunday and retired at 11 Sunday night. His valet entered his room about 4 and found him breathing heavily so he went for the nurse. Upon their return he was already dead. Mrs. Roosevelt, the only family member at home was summoned into the room. Major Theodore, Jr. and Capt. Kermit Roosevelt are in service in France. Capt. Archie Roosevelt and wife were at his bedside of his wife's parents in Boston, her father being very ill. Mrs. Ethel Derby and her two children were in Aiken, South Carolina. Just a short time ago Quentin Roosevelt died on the battlefields of France and it is thought this hastened the ex-president's death. He was planning a visit to Quentin's grave.
Col. Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States and was 60 years old. His life was one of the most brilliant, interesting chapters of American history. His war record was full of patriotic movements. Because he would not be permitted to raise a divison of soldiers and go to France he led a heated opposition to the Democratic Party all during the war.
Teddy Roosevelt, soldier, author, explorer, and ex-president was born in New York October 27, 1858. After completing his education at Harvard, in 1880, he entered public life. His first office was that of assemblyman in New York. Next he went to the legislature for two years. In 1885 he bought a ranch in North Dakota and lived on it for two years. Returning to the political field, he ran for Mayor of New York but was defeated. He served six years as a member of the U. S. Civil Service commission. He resigned that office to become Police Commissioner of New York, which he held for two years, when he was appointed Asst. Secretary of the Navy.
When the Spanish war broke out he formed the famous Rough Riders and led them in the campaign in Cuba. Returning with military glory he was elected governor of New York on the Republican ticket. In 1900 he was the running mate of William McKinley on the national ticket and was elected Vie-President of the United States. Upon the assassination of President McKinley he became President. By the largest popular vote ever accorded a candidate to that date, he was re-elected for a second term, from 1905-1909. Since his retirement he has been an editor of the Outlook magazine, and made extensive explorations in the aid of science. He has written of his travels, of history, and many other subjects.
In 1912 there was a widespread demand for his nomination at the Republican Convention. Roosevelt went to Chicago himself and when Taft was nominated the colonel denounced the Republican leaders for "stealing the nomination" from him. The National Progressive Party was quickly organized and he ran as a third candidate, polling 4,200,000 votes and indirectly put Woodrow Wilson, a minority president, into office.
A madman shot him point blank in the chest at Milwaukee, but he kept on to Chicago and made a speech before he yielded to his doctors and went to a hospital.
The great war in Europe enlisted his sympathies strongly. He declared in the Winter of 1914-15 that the United States should have done more to protect the overrunning of Belgium by the Germans. He bitterly attacked President Wilson for his handling of the submarine issue. He denounced "Hyphenated-Americans" and wrote and spoke with his old time fire in advocacy of preparedness for defense, universal military training, and a more efficient industrial and social system.
Roosevelt was married twice, his first wife was Miss Alice Hathaway Lee of Boston, who died in October, 1884. A few years later he was married to his present wife, who was Miss Edith Kermit Carow. He left several children: Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, Theodore, Jr., Kermit, Mrs. Richard Derby and Archibald Roosevelt. Lt. Quentin Roosevelt, his other son, was killed while fighting an air battle in France in 1918.