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Sarah B. Stevens recently learned that her house in Walthourville, Georgia, belonged to Theodore Roosevelt’s grandfather, James S. Bulloch and that his mother, Martha, was born there. She sends a photograph of the house, which has not changed much since it was built.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-08
H. B. Pratt sent Theodore Roosevelt a copy of his new booklet on infant death in view of the Kingdom of God. Pratt knew Roosevelt’s mother, Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, and grandmother, Martha Stewart Bulloch. He thanks God for preserving Roosevelt’s life so he can continue improving society and the cause of human progress.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-08-04
After reading Theodore Roosevelt’s April 22nd article in The Outlook, E. McIntyre provides him with additional information about tenement house conditions. Anne Harriman Vanderbilt and other philanthropists are trying to build redesigned buildings that are healthier. However, local tenement house departments are preventing them from being built due to the lack of an air shaft. McIntyre says that he knew Roosevelt’s parents.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-07-12
Thomas H. Bomar sends Theodore Roosevelt an item he has had for several years that he believes Roosevelt would be interested in–a synopsis of the life of John Chavis, a free African-American educator and preacher who lived and worked in the North Carolina. Bomar tells Roosevelt that his mother, Sarah Elizabeth Bomar, knew Roosevelt’s mother, Martha Roosevelt, when she was a child, and would be very pleased to hear from Roosevelt. Bomar remarks that he, as well as many other Southern Democrats, greatly admires Roosevelt and hopes he will be the next president, and briefly summarizes his own life for Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-03-04
W. N. Mitchell explains why he advocated for President Roosevelt’s renomination at the Republican convention in Chicago. He discusses his Confederate roots, his connections to both of Roosevelt’s parents, and explains that he circulated a petition for his renomination in the South. Mitchell believed that Roosevelt had the best chance of delivering the South to the Republicans. He pledges now to support President-elect William H. Taft and work to elect Republicans in the next election.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-11-09
Anna C. Alger wants President Roosevelt to have a plate given to her by his mother, Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, as she is no longer young and her things will soon go into other hands. She regrets she cannot send a sponge cake with it, as his mother taught her how to make.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-08-30
John P. M. Richards thanks Jacob A. Riis for the book. Richards goes on to reflect about President Roosevelt and the rest of the Roosevelt family, from childhood memories of Theodore Roosevelt Sr. visiting his grandfather’s shop to purchase hunting equipment to seeing the president’s recent speech in Spokane, Washington.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-11-27
William Emlen Roosevelt congratulates President Roosevelt on his recent bear hunt, and jokes that all the bears have “fled into Wall Street for safety.” More seriously, Emlen finds that the situation is quite grave and offers some thoughts on how he feels Roosevelt might proceed. Emlen also provides an update on life at Oyster Bay.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-10-22
Margaret Howell Davis Hayes thanks President Roosevelt for his speech in Vicksburg in which he offered praise of Hayes’s father, Jefferson Davis. Hayes thinks Roosevelt is a man of rare courage and says he has her admiration. Her father had fond memories of Roosevelt’s mother and uncle, and recognized Roosevelt’s leadership qualities even in his college days.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-10-26
Stephania A. Porter has sent President Roosevelt a miniature portrait on ivory of his mother, Martha Bulloch Roosevelt. Porter had intended to leave the portrait, given to her as a girl, to her own family, but she feels the Roosevelts should have it and take it to the White House with them. Porter wishes Roosevelt’s parents could see him now as president. Porter recently injured her knee but will soon visit her son.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-06-20
Governor Heyward encloses a copy of the marriage record of President Roosevelt’s mother and father, which appeared in the records of Stoney Creek Church in Hampton County, South Carolina. The pastor of Stoney Creek was a cousin of Roosevelt’s mother, and he traveled to Roswell, Georgia, to conduct the ceremony, then returned to his church and recorded the marriage there.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-12-07
Jefferson D. Dunwody sends President Roosevelt a copy of Reminiscences of the Dunwody-Bulloch Families which contains references to Roosevelt’s parents.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-11-25
J. L. Underwood is writing a work on the history of the women of the Confederacy, and he asks President Roosevelt’s permission to include a portion on Roosevelt’s mother’s and grandmother’s involvement with the Confederacy. Another portion of the book will include tributes people have paid, and he will be pleased to include Roosevelt’s own words from a speech he gave at Richmond.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-11-16
A history of the Bulloch and Roosevelt family, including the marriage of Theodore Roosevelt and Martha Bulloch, the youth of Roosevelt, and the birth of Alice Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-10
Mary Elizabeth Adams Brown is compiling letters and testimonials written about her father, Rev. William Adams, and she writes to President Roosevelt to discuss letters written by his mother.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-09-21
Chronology of the daily life of Theodore Roosevelt from October 1858 to December 1870. Notable events include the Roosevelt family’s involvement in the American Civil War, Theodore Roosevelt meeting John Hay as a child, and the Roosevelt family’s first European trip.
Theodore Roosevelt Association
1985
Moore, Robert J. (Robert John), 1956-; Theodore Roosevelt Association
Chronology of the daily life of Theodore Roosevelt from January 1871 to December 1878. Notable events include the Roosevelt family’s trip to Europe and Egypt, Roosevelt’s entrance to Harvard, the death of Theodore “Thee” Roosevelt, Roosevelt’s trip to Maine, and Roosevelt meeting Alice Hathaway Lee.
Theodore Roosevelt Association
1985
Moore, Robert J. (Robert John), 1956-; Theodore Roosevelt Association
Chronology of the daily life of Theodore Roosevelt between January 1879 to December 1883. Notable events include Theodore Roosevelt’s engagement and marriage to Alice Hathaway Lee, his appointment to the New York State Legislature, and his first visit and buffalo hunt in North Dakota.
Theodore Roosevelt Association
1985
Moore, Robert J. (Robert John), 1956-; Theodore Roosevelt Association
Chronology of the daily life of Theodore Roosevelt from January 1884 to December 1891. Notable events include the deaths of Alice Lee Roosevelt and Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, Roosevelt’s time on his ranch, the completion of Sagamore Hill, Roosevelt’s engagement and marriage to Edith Kermit Carow, Theodore “Ted” Roosevelt’s birth, the “Great-Dieup” of cattle in North Dakota, and the founding of the Boone and Crockett Club.
Theodore Roosevelt Association
1985
Moore, Robert J. (Robert John), 1956-; Theodore Roosevelt Association
John B. Ashbaugh examines Theodore Roosevelt’s complicated views on race and charts his history with various ethnic and racial groups, including Native Americans, African-Americans, and Jews. Ashbaugh highlights the influence of Roosevelt’s southern born and raised mother and her brothers, both of whom served the Confederacy during the Civil War. Ashbaugh stresses that Roosevelt’s views evolved over time, and he demonstrates how Roosevelt believed in and promoted the Progressive views of his time such as the assimilation of Native Americans, but that he also respected many aspects of Native culture and had enduring friendships with individual Native Americans. Ashbaugh presents Roosevelt’s views on Jews and immigration, and he details many aspects of Roosevelt’s feelings toward and relationship with African-Americans, including his condemnation of lynching, his White House dinner with Booker T. Washington, and the Brownsville incident.
Five photographs and two illustrations appear in the text.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
2020