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Written by Theodore Roosevelt and G. B.

Grinnell:

Trail and Camp Fire. (1896.)

Hunting in Many Lands. (1896.)

Principal Magazine Articles :

Admiral Dewey. (McClure's Magazine.)
Military Preparedness and Unpreparedness.
(Century Magazine.)

Mad Anthony Wayne's Victory. (Harper's
Magazine.)

St. Clair's Defeat. (Harper's Magazine.)
Fights between Iron Clads. (Century Maga-
zine.)

Need of a New Navy. (Review of Reviews.)

APPENDIX C

CHRONOLOGY OF THE LIFE OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT FROM 1858 TO 1904

1858. October 27. Theodore Roosevelt born in New York City, son of Theodore Roosevelt and Martha (Bullock) Roosevelt.

1864. Sent to public school, and also received some private instruction; spent summers at Oyster Bay, New York.

1873. Became a member of the Dutch Reformed Church; has been a member ever since. 1876. September. Entered Harvard College.

Member of numerous clubs and societies. 1878. February 9. Death of Theodore Roosevelt, Sr.

1880. June. Graduated from Harvard College; a Phi Beta Kappa man.

September 23. Married Miss Alice Lee, of
Boston, Massachusetts.

Travelled extensively in Europe; climbed
the Alps; made a member of the Alpine
Club of London.

1881. Elected a member of the New York Assembly, and served for three terms in succession.

1884. Birth of daughter, Alice Lee Roosevelt. Death of Mrs. Alice (Lee) Roosevelt, Mr. Roosevelt's first wife.

1885.

1886.

Death of Mrs. Martha (Bullock) Roosevelt,
Mr. Roosevelt's mother.

Made Delegate-at-large to the Republican

National Convention

that nominated

James G. Blaine for President.

Became a ranchman and hunter.

Ran for office of mayor of New York
City, and was defeated by Abram

Hewitt.

Spent additional time in hunting.

December 2.

Married Edith Kermit Carew,

of New York City.

1888. Birth of son, Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.

September. Grand hunt in the Selkirk
Mountains.

1889. May. Appointed by President Harrison a member of the Civil Service Commission; served for six years, four under President Harrison and two under President Cleveland.

1890. Birth of son, Kermit Roosevelt.

1891.

September.

Grand hunt at Two-Ocean

Pass, Wyoming.

1892. Birth of daughter, Ethel Carew Roosevelt. 1895. May 24. Appointed Police Commissioner of New York City by Mayor William Strong. Served until April, 1897.

Birth of son, Archibald Bullock Roosevelt. 1897. April. Made First Assistant Secretary of the Navy, under Secretary Long and

President McKinley.

Birth of son, Quentin Roosevelt.

1898. April 25. Congress declared war with

Spain. Roosevelt resigned his position in the Navy Department.

May. Helped to organize the Rough Riders, and was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel, May 6.

May 29. The Rough Riders left San Antonio, Texas, for Tampa, Florida.

June 2. In camp at Tampa.

June 7. Move by coal cars to Port Tampa; four companies left behind; board transport Yucatan.

June 13. Start for Cuba, without horses. June 22. Landing of the Rough Riders at Daiquiri.

June 23. March to Siboney.

June 24. Advance to La Guasima (Las Guasimas). First fight with the Spanish troops.

July 1. Battles of San Juan and El Caney. Roosevelt leads the Rough Riders up San Juan Hill.

July 2. Fighting in the trenches by the Rough Riders, Roosevelt in command. July 3. Sinking of the Spanish fleet off Santiago Bay.

July 8. Roosevelt made Colonel of the Rough Riders.

August 7. Departure of the Rough Riders from Cuba.

August 9. Spain accepts terms of peace offered by the United States.

August 16. Arrival of the Rough Riders at Montauk, Long Island.

September 15. Mustering out of the Rough
Riders.

September 27. Nominated by the Republi-
can party for governor of New York.
October. Grand campaigning tour through
the Empire State.

November. Elected governor of New York by seventeen thousand plurality.

1899. January 1. New York.

Assumed office as governor of

April 10. Delivered famous address on "The Strenuous Life," at Chicago. September 29 and 30. Governor appointed these days as holidays in honor of a reception to Admiral Dewey; grand water and land processions.

1900. June 19. Republican Convention met at Philadelphia; Roosevelt seconded the nomination of McKinley for President (second term), and was nominated for the Vice-Presidency.

July, August, and September.

Governor

Roosevelt travelled 20,000 miles, delivering 673 political speeches at nearly 600 cities and towns.

November 6. McKinley and Roosevelt car

ried 28 states, Democratic opponents carried 17 states; Republican electoral votes, 292, Democratic and scattering combined, 155.

December.

Presided over one short session

of the United States Senate.

1901. January 11. Started on a five weeks' hunt

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