Greenway, John Campbell, 1872-1926

A page from the Topeka Daily State Journal featuring a highlighted section of reminiscences of Frank P. MacLennan’s recent meeting and luncheon with Theodore Roosevelt, several editors and businessmen from The Outlook, and others in New York. Also included in the section titled “Chapter LII” is information about Roosevelt’s insistence he has no intention to be nominated as a Republican candidate in the upcoming election, Taft’s fight against big business, and LaFollette’s campaign efforts as the presidential election approaches.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-12-20

Kristie Miller explores Theodore Roosevelt’s relationship with three women: Julia Stockton Dinsmore, her niece Martha (Patty) Selmes, and Selmes’s daughter, Isabella Greenway King. Miller notes that Roosevelt became close friends with Selmes and her husband Tilden Selmes during his years as a rancher in Dakota Territory, and she also examines Roosevelt’s friendships with his fellow Rough Riders, Robert Ferguson and John Greenway, the first two husbands of King. Miller highlights Roosevelt’s appreciation of Dinsmore’s poetry, King’s active participation in politics, and Eleanor Roosevelt’s friendship with King. The article includes photographs of all three women.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2004

Seven books receive scrutiny in the “Reviews” section, including two biographies of Theodore Roosevelt, specialized studies of the White House and Memorial Day, a collection of Roosevelt’s writings, a look at the Rough Riders of Arizona, and a study of turn of the twentieth-century American foreign policy. John A. Gable notes that Stacy A. Cordery’s biography of Roosevelt serves as a comprehensive historiographical study as it draws on thirty years of Roosevelt scholarship in its quotes and analysis. Gable also offers thoughts on Kathleen Dalton’s biography of Roosevelt, and he provides excerpts from five other reviews of the work that highlight Dalton’s coverage of the role of women in Roosevelt’s life and that affirm Roosevelt as a moderate radical. Of Brian Thomsen’s collection of Roosevelt’s writings, The Man in the Arena, Gable says: “there is no reason to buy this book.”

Gable also reviews Marty F. Feess’s Theodore Roosevelt’s Arizona Boys which examines the life of the Arizona Rough Riders after the Spanish-American War and the many actions taken by their Colonel to help them succeed in their post-war lives. Henry J. Hendrix faults Warren Zimmermann’s First Great Triumph for injecting present day views into his analysis of the makers of foreign policy in Roosevelt’s presidency. Hendrix also examines A History of Memorial Day which traces the transformation of the holiday from a solemn occasion to a day of recreation. Jeremy M. Murphy highlights Gable’s chapter on the Roosevelts in his review of The White House: Actors and Observers, and he also notes the work’s use of the photographs of Frances Benjamin Johnston.

Joe F. Decker provides a comprehensive bibliography of the various accounts of Theodore Roosevelt’s attempt to form a volunteer division during World War I. Decker begins with Roosevelt’s own first account in 1917 and concludes with John Milton Cooper’s version in The Warrior and the Priest of 1983. Decker examines books, book chapters, and articles on the subject, and finds that the story still has not been “dealt with satisfactorily.” Decker points out the biases and the shortcomings of some of the authors, and notes that many of the accounts strongly favor either Roosevelt or his antagonist President Woodrow Wilson.

A full page-photograph of Roosevelt and General Leonard Wood accompanies the article. A photograph of Harrison Engle and Sidney D. Kirkpatrick who directed documentary films on Roosevelt is featured, along with three photographs of Roosevelt from newsreel footage used in the film The Indomitable Teddy Roosevelt.

A listing of the officers of the Theodore Roosevelt Association as well as the members of its executive, finance, and Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace committees is on page two of the article.

President Roosevelt introduces John Campbell Greenway to Secretary of the Isthmian Canal Commission Bishop. Greenway, a former Rough Rider, is a mining executive in Minnesota and is visiting Panama to study the techniques used by the commission.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-11-27

A handbook for Roosevelt’s Rough Rider Association, which includes a list of association officers, the association’s constitution and by-laws, and a list of the association’s members, honorary members, and the muster-out roll. Handwritten annotations about members or officers is present throughout. Pages 56-57 and 88-89 are uncut in the original and cannot be scanned.

Collection

Arizona Historical Society

Kermit Roosevelt is concerned about John Wallace Riddle’s pneumonia and hopes he is feeling better. Kermit and President Roosevelt are busy making plans for their African safari. He describes their planned itinerary. Kermit has been able to see Isabella and Robert Harry Munro Ferguson many times this summer. He will be joining Ferguson for a September hunting trip in Wyoming.

Collection

Arizona Historical Society

Creation Date

1908-1909

Isabella Greenway thanks Louise Adriana Wood for the letters. Greenway cherishes every word from her husband and believes the letters will be meaningful to their son. Greenway expresses her pleasure at meeting Wood and can imagine how proud General Wood would be to know that his son will receive his commission as captain of cavalry.

Collection

Arizona Historical Society

Creation Date

1928-07-09

Allan Brown Jaynes would be glad to do anything he can to further General Wood’s interests in Arizona. He has spoken to most of the Republican leaders in Arizona and a large majority of them support General Wood.

Collection

Arizona Historical Society

Creation Date

1919-10-22

Prior to leaving for Chicago, Illinois, John Campbell Greenway requested that the enclosed letters be sent to Theodore Roosevelt.

Collection

Arizona Historical Society

Creation Date

1916-06-01

John Campbell Greenway instructed his private secretary to send Theodore Roosevelt information about Jim Martin, a Rough Rider from I Troop. Martin is being held in Prescott, Arizona Territory, and awaiting trial for forgery.

Collection

Arizona Historical Society

Creation Date

1911-07-26

Signed oath and appointment making John Campbell Greenway a deputy sheriff of Marquette County, Mighigan.

Collection

Arizona Historical Society

Creation Date

1905-01

James McCrea introduces John Campbell Greenway, who would like to discuss a Big Four Railroad Company contract with Melville Ezra Ingalls.

Collection

Arizona Historical Society

Creation Date

1901-07-01

John S. Miller introduces John Campbell Greenway, who would like to meet with Mr. Crocker, the purchasing agent for George R. Peck’s company.

Collection

Arizona Historical Society

Creation Date

1901-09-17

Invitation to a luncheon at the Graduates Club to be held in honor of Theodore Roosevelt, John Campbell Greenway, and David Goodrich.

Collection

Arizona Historical Society

Creation Date

1899-11-21

Charles R. Greenleaf was briefly in Cuba checking on the spread of yellow fever and seeing many Rough Riders, but not learning their names. He will write if he hears anything about John Campbell Greenway. The Greenway name brought back memories of Greenleaf’s “pleasantest years” spent in Huntsville, Alabama.

Collection

Arizona Historical Society

Creation Date

1898-08-12

Officers’ muster-in roll for John Campbell Greenway; including date of muster, rank, age, residence, and notes on promotions.

Collection

Arizona Historical Society

Creation Date

1898-09-06

Theodore Roosevelt and John Campbell Greenway standing with two cavalry officers and several cavalry horses. Tents and horses can be seen in the distance.

Collection

Arizona Historical Society

Creation Date

1898

President Roosevelt has confirmed that he will be visiting Mount Rushmore National Memorial. Gutzon Borglum would like Representative Greenway to attend.

Collection

Arizona Historical Society

Creation Date

1936-08-11

Thomas Robins was delighted with Gutzon Borglum’s dissatisfaction over Calvin Coolidge’s inscription for the Mount Rushmore National Memorial. He suggests that Borglum meet with Andrew Fleming West, who has mastered “monumental English.” Robins also praises Borglum’s statue of John Campbell Greenway, which Robins feels was “worthy of the subject.”

Collection

Arizona Historical Society

Creation Date

1930-11-20