Demorest, Alice Gilbert, -1939

Robert D. Dalziel examines the history of the Woman’s Roosevelt Memorial Association (WRMA), noting how the organization struggled in its early years to raise funds to reconstruct Theodore Roosevelt’s boyhood home. Dalziel notes the cooperation between the WRMA and the Roosevelt Memorial Association and how the two organizations would eventually merge in 1956 to form the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA). Dalziel highlights the six presidents of the WRMA and says that both organizations had to add “Theodore” to their names to prevent confusion with Franklin D. Roosevelt.

The article includes a photograph of Alice Gilbert Demorest, the first President of the WRMA, and a listing of the members of the executive committee of the TRA.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1993

In the second of two articles that traces the history of the Woman’s Theodore Roosevelt Association (WRMA), Robert D. Dalziel provides brief biographies of each of the six leaders of the WRMA from 1919 to 1955.

Two photographs supplement the text: one shows members of the WRMA witnessing the burning of the mortgage on the Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace and the other shows WRMA members with Eleanor Roosevelt who was first lady of the state of New York at the time.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1993

Photograph of some of the guests at a formal dinner at the Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace in 1929. Some of the notable guests include Hermann Hagedorn and Corinne Roosevelt Robinson as well as the first two Presidents of the Woman’s Roosevelt Memorial Association.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1929

Creator(s)

Unknown