October 27, 1858	Born at 28 East 20th Street, New York City, child of Theodore ("Thee" or "Greatheart") and Martha ("Mittie") Bulloch Roosevelt. There were four children in all - Anna ("Bamie" or "Bye"), Theodore ("Teedie" to his family and very close friends. He hated to be called "Teddy"), Elliott ("Ellie") and Corinne ("Coney").
1865	Watches Abraham Lincoln's funeral procession from an upstairs window of his grandfather's house on Union Square, New York City. With him are his younger brother Elliott and a friend named Edith Kermit Carow.
1876-1880	Attended Harvard College   [TR as a freshman - Dec 1876]
Feb. 9, 1878	Theodore Roosevelt, Sr. dies from stomach cancer at the family's new home, 6 West 57th Street, NYC.
June 30, 1880	Graduates from Harvard, magna cum laude, member Phi Beta Kappa.
1880-1882	Enters Columbia Law School in October 1880; discontinued study of law in 1882 without taking a degree or becoming a lawyer.
October 27, 1880	Marries Alice Hathaway Lee of Chestnut Hill, MA on his 22nd birthday. (Alice born July 29, 1861)
1880	Joins the Republican Party
November 8, 1881	Elected to New York State Assembly from New York City (the youngest man ever elected to the Assembly) by a margin of 3,490 votes to 1,989. Serves three one-year terms, 1882, 1883 and 1884. Minority Leader 1883.
1882	Publishes first book, The Naval War of 1812, written partly while TR was in college. It set the standard for studies on naval strategy and was required reading at the Naval Academy in Annapolis for many years.
1882-1884	Served in New York State Assembly.
	"I put myself in the way of things happening; and they happened."..."During the three years' service in the Legislature I worked on a very simple philosophy of government. It was that personal character and initiative are the prime requisites in political and social life."
August 1,1882	Joins the National Guard. Commissioned a Second Lieutenant in B Company of New York's Eighth Regiment. Would be promoted to Captain the following year.
1883	Reelected by the widest margin of any legislator in New York (by a two-to-one majority). Becomes Minority Leader. Is taken on a tour of New York City tenements by Samuel Gompers and is horrified by the conditions he witnesses. Works to pass legislation to ease conditions.
1883-1884	Establishes two cattle ranches, Maltese Cross and Elkhorn, near Medora, Dakota Territory (in region now part of North Dakota).
February 12, 1884	Birth of 1st child, daughter Alice Lee Roosevelt at his home on 57th Street in NYC.
February 14, 1884	Double tragedy: TR's mother Martha Bulloch Roosevelt dies of typhoid fever; hours later, in the same house on 57th Street, TR's wife Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt also dies from Bright's disease - a chronic kidney infection which had been masked by her pregnancy.

Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States, lived at this site from his birth on October 27, 1858 until he was 14 years old. The reconstructed house contains five period rooms, two museum galleries and a bookstore.

Teedie, as young Roosevelt was nicknamed, was a sickly but bright boy, from a wealthy family. To improve his health, Teedie began an exercise program at the house's outdoor gymnasium that started a lifelong passion for the "strenuous life."

After graduating from Harvard, Roosevelt pursued his boyhood dreams, as a rancher, naturalist, explorer, author and Colonel of the Rough Riders. His political service included reforming the U.S. Civil Service Commission and New York City Police Department, and terms as Governor of New York and Vice President of the U.S.

Theodore Roosevelt became president when William McKinley was assassinated in September 1901. As President, Roosevelt pushed progressive reforms, such as conservation of public lands and trust busting, and negotiated an end to the war between Russia and Japan, for which he won a Nobel Peace Prize.

Roosevelt's original birthplace was demolished in 1916. After Roosevelt's death in 1919, the site was purchased by the Women's Roosevelt Memorial Association, rebuilt and decorated with many of its original furnishings by Roosevelt's sisters and wife.

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