Church

William Loeb encloses a check on behalf of President Theodore Roosevelt as a contribution to the current expenses of Grace Reformed Church where the Reverend Dr. John M. Schick is the pastor.

Comments and Context

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

President Roosevelt will do his best to secure tents from the War Department, but he will not speak at the church Henry St. George Tucker referred to. Both he and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt want to go privately to Brandon, Westover, and a third place.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-01-11

Ursula B. Leber asks Theodore Roosevelt to donate towards the Ladies Mission Band of the First Presbyterian Church’s fair. She informs him their borough in New Jersey was named for him, and two elders in the church are named Theodore.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-09-21

Mrs. Lease wonders if Theodore Roosevelt might donate to their church fund.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-09-20

John Van Pemsem asks if Theodore Roosevelt can attend their church’s festival and potentially speak.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-09-17

Agnes Carter Mason offers to send Theodore Roosevelt a copy of the autobiography written by her father, Walter Carter, if Roosevelt confirms that he remembers him as his former Sunday School teacher at St. Nicholas Church in New York City.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-09-12

John T. Cotner asks Theodore Roosevelt to deliver a lecture in Lima, Ohio, on behalf of the citizens and the Grace Methodist Episcopal Church, offering the use of Memorial Hall and stating that his visit would be considered a great honor.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-09-12

Article expresses appreciation for President Roosevelt’s work in the United States and abroad. 

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-01-22

Lloyd Carpenter Griscom writes to William Loeb regarding the destruction of Christian churches during a riot in Tokyo, Japan. Military authorities intend to offer protection.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-09-08

Theodore Roosevelt writes of his honeymoon with Alice Lee Roosevelt to his sister Anna. He describes climbing Mount Pilatus in Munich with two German students and confusing Saturday for Sunday. He has not had any trouble other than mistaking a cavalry officer for a railway porter.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1881-07-19

The Democratic Donkey, as a woman, sits in a pew in a church with William Jennings Bryan preaching “Jeffersonian Simplicity” from a pulpit. On Bryan’s left are Alton B. Parker, Henry Watterson, and William Randolph Hearst, and among those on his right are New York City Mayor George B. McClellan Jr., former Representative Tom Watson of Georgia, Representative John Sharp Williams of Mississippi, and Senator “Pitchfork Ben” Tillman. All are preaching except Hearst, who righteously looks up to the heavens. In the background, the sun illuminates a stained glass window labeled “Our Thomas” and showing Thomas Jefferson. In a far corner of the church, Grover Cleveland is asleep. Caption: The Democratic Donkey (drowsily) — He-e-e Haw! What a lot of ways to be saved!

comments and context

Comments and Context

If “politics makes strange bedfellows,” the calendar can make them even stranger. Puck Magazine, generally and justly considered a Democratic journal for most of its life, placed itself in agreement with many of the policies of the new president, Theodore Roosevelt, after the assassination of President William McKinley. That is, until the presidential election year of 1904.

Theodore Roosevelt writes to his sister Anna expressing his sympathy that she is ill. Roosevelt explains how much energy his sister has and describes what he thinks a typical day for her would consist of. He also describes his weekend and his experience at a very full church on Sunday.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1877-04-01

President Roosevelt congratulates Reverend Dickie on his upcoming church dedication and the “happy result of the persistent and self-denying labors.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-11-16

Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary informs Reverend MacFarlane that Roosevelt has already left for his Pacific Coast campaign trip. Roosevelt will be in San Francisco on September 18 and then will move on to Santa Barbara. Roosevelt will attend church on Sunday morning.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-08-29

Theodore Roosevelt’s Secretary responds to L. L. Loar that Roosevelt does not drink whiskey and does not usually make speeches in churches on Sundays. Loar is referred to public libraries to read Roosevelt’s published speeches and addresses for his views on public questions.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-06-07

President Roosevelt will expect William H. Taft for breakfast at the White House at nine Sunday morning. If Taft does not want to sleep on the special train when it arrives early that morning, he is welcome to come directly to the White House. Roosevelt would like to accompany Taft to his church.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-10-16

President Roosevelt thanks John M. Schick for the letter, and says that when it comes time for him to leave Washington, D.C., he will regret leaving Grace Reformed Church, where Schick is pastor.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-06-24

President Roosevelt sends Professor Dabney a set of books for the Scottsville High School.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-05-23

Vice President Roosevelt thanks Reverend Schick for writing. Both his children are recovering. He looks forward to seeing Schick again and returning to the church upon his return to Washington.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-08-27

Mrs. B. B. Goodale asks Theodore Roosevelt if he can speak in Angola, Indiana, and how much he would ask for for such an engagement. Any profits that came from the sale of tickets to see Roosevelt would go towards paying for the cost of a new church.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-11-01