Retirement

The Executive Committee of the Carnegie Foundation has authorized Dr. Pritchett to tender to Dr. Harris, commissioner of education, a retiring allowance of $3,000 in case Dr. Harris wishes to take the opportunity to retire from active services in order to spend the rest of his life in study and literary work. This will be done in the next few weeks and will be done with all possible tact. If Harris decides to retire, Nicholas Butler suggests Professor Brown, of the University of California, be considered for commissioner.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-05-10

Creator(s)

Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1862-1947

William Franklin Swan announces his retirement as collector for the United States Customs Service, Port of Biloxi, Mississippi, to President Roosevelt and thanks him for the appointment.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-12-01

Creator(s)

Swan, William Franklin, 1848-1932

There is some uncertainty over the possible retirement of Associate Justice M. F. Morris on the District Court of Appeals. Although Attorney General William H. Moody has announced that ex-Senator Louis E. McComas would be appointed as Morris’s successor, Morris has declared that he is not yet ready to retire. The confusion comes from a letter sent previously, and from Morris’s previous illnesses, which have resulted in the anticipation of his imminent retirement.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-05-21

Creator(s)

Unknown

Judge Morris did not indicate to President Roosevelt or anyone else else that he intended to retire at this time. Morris clarifies the details of his resignation from the U.S. Court of Appeals.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-05-20

Creator(s)

Morris, M. F. (Martin Ferdinand), 1834-1909

Governor Brodie writes to President Roosevelt regarding Major A. H. Appel, who is being retired from military service. Brodie explains what he knows of Appel’s service during the Spanish-American War and asks that he not be retired unless there is a reason it would benefit the service.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-10-10

Creator(s)

Brodie, Alexander O. (Alexander Oswald), 1849-1918

Two documents relating to Samuel L. Woodward’s request to be appointed and retired at the rank of Brigadier General. The first document notes that Woodward is a victim of an “unjust and unlawful” promotion system for lieutenants that was in effect from 1878 to 1890, and has been denied promotions at the appropriate time for thirty years. In the second document, Woodward outlines his experience in battles and engagements, as well as his role and actions in various regiments during his military career.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-12-22

Creator(s)

Unknown

Uncle Sam sits on a couch with David B. Hill as they both cry. On the ground is a paper that reads, “Hill to retire after the campaign.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-08-30

Creator(s)

Davenport, Homer, 1867-1912

On the left of the cartoon, a “retired D. Hill” scarecrow leans against the wall, while some newspaper boys whisper about him. On the right, Hill sits on a chair upon a tiger skin-covered podium and directs Charles Francis Murphy and Alton B. Parker.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-09-09

Creator(s)

Davenport, Homer, 1867-1912

Frank Andrew Munsey is retiring from his interests in the New York Daily News.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-04-14

Creator(s)

Unknown

Theodore Roosevelt has enclosed letters and documents for Senator Lodge. Roosevelt does not understand why Captain John M. Ellicott retired, but regrets his retirement.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1916-06-03

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Vignettes offer several possibilities for employment for William Jennings Bryan, of whom it is supposed he will retire from politics after losing yet another presidential election. The main possibility is that the Democratic donkey be donated to Central Park with Bryan as its keeper, offering donkey rides to children. Other options are acting as Bottom in Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream; touring the arctic where he warms the region with the hot air of his oratory; becoming the museum curator of his own “Bryan Musee” dusting such objects as a “Gold Bug,” a “Crown of Thorns,” a “Cross of Gold,” an “Imperial Crown,” a “Filipino,” an “Octopus,” and a “16 to 1” medallion; or to go big-game hunting with Theodore Roosevelt where disputes are likely to arise over who actually bagged the game.

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Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1908-11-25

General Wheaton does not want to retire until required to do so by law. General Chaffee has stated that he would like Wheaton to stay in the Philippines until next spring. Everything is looking well in the Philippines and they will be able to concentrate troops after the rainy season.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-09-10

Creator(s)

Wheaton, Loyd, 1838-1918

Flora Whitney, Quentin Roosevelt’s fiance, visited for dinner, and Theodore Roosevelt found her to be the “dearest girl.” Quentin is very fortunate. Roosevelt has been disappointed that he could not join the war effort but these feelings have been swept away by “immense pride” in his sons. He hopes to continue working until his sons come home so that he can start Archibald Roosevelt and Quentin out all right. Then he will retire because an “elderly male Cassandra” can do little work and is more of a nuisance. Roosevelt’s new book, The Foes Of Our Own Household, will soon be published and dedicated to his children and their spouses. Flora will receive her own copy with a special inscription.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1917-09-01

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Civil Service Commissioner Roosevelt congratulates editor of the Boston Journal William Warland Clapp upon his retirement. He says he has appreciated all the support his paper has shown the Republican party and civil service reform.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1891-07-05

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Representative Theodore E. Burton is to retire from Congress and Thomas H. Tongue believes this would be a loss to the Republican Party.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-06-09

Creator(s)

Presidential Office Staff

General Young expresses appreciation as he retires as Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-01-11

Creator(s)

Young, S. B. M. (Samuel Baldwin Marks), 1840-1924

Partial newspaper article pointing out that Generals Wesley Merritt, John Rutter Brooke, and Elwell Stephen Otis received eulogistic orders upon their retirement, against army regulations. General Nelson Appleton Miles did not receive similar orders and the War Department’s explanation is that Merritt, Brooke, and Otis retired from “immediate active service in the field.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-08

Creator(s)

Unknown

Secretary of War Root apologizes for the criticism directed at President Roosevelt for the form of the order made upon the retirement of General Nelson Appleton Miles. Precedent was followed and the order was exactly the same as others sent to Civil War generals of similar rank and service. Root views Miles as a “bad officer” and not in a class with the great leaders of the Civil War. An order praising Miles would have been full of falsehoods and hypocrisy.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-08-19

Creator(s)

Root, Elihu, 1845-1937

The writer criticizes President Roosevelt and Elihu Root for not officially praising General Nelson Appleton Miles upon his retirement.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-08

Creator(s)

Unknown

John A. Sleicher writes to President Roosevelt to seek clarification on the facts of the issue of General Nelson Appleton Miles and the retirement of General John Rutter Brooke. Sleicher also encloses clippings.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-08-20

Creator(s)

Sleicher, John A. (John Albert), 1848-1921