![]() ![]() The Roosevelts had four children, each of whom had a nickname: Anna ("Bamie"), Theodore ("Teedie"), Elliott ("Ellie"), and Corinne ("Conie"). married Martha Bulloch on Decemat Bulloch Hall in Roswell, Georgia. ![]() He was a seventh-generation Dutch New Yorker and participant in the Roosevelt family business of plate-glass importing, Roosevelt and Son. He was the youngest of Cornelius Van Schaack Roosevelt and Margaret Barnhill's five sons. a big, powerful man, with a leonine face, and his heart filled with gentleness for those who needed help or protection, with the possibility of much wrath against a bully or an oppressor." (p.7,10) He combined strength and courage with gentleness tenderness and great unselfishness. had a tremendous influence on his son, and in adulthood, the younger Roosevelt wrote about his father in his autobiography: ".the best man I ever knew. ![]()
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