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Hace 2 días · In 1880, Roosevelt married socialite Alice Hathaway Lee. Their daughter, Alice Lee Roosevelt, was born on February 12, 1884. Two days later, the new mother died of undiagnosed kidney failure. In his diary, Roosevelt wrote a large "X" on the page and then, "The light has gone out of my life."
Hace 4 días · Ten years later in 1880 young Roosevelt and his fiancee Alice Hathaway Lee bought the hill on Cove Neck where his home now stands. The hill had no trees then, with a barn its only building. For this property he put down $10,000, assuming a 20-year mortgage for the $20,000 balance.
Hace 3 días · Untapped gets a tour of the FDR Four Freedoms Park in Roosevelt Island, standing inside the infamous "Room" and getting up close and personal with the smallpox hospital ruin.
Hace 1 día · During his second year of college, Roosevelt met and proposed to Boston heiress Alice Sohier, who turned him down. Franklin then began courting his childhood acquaintance and fifth cousin once removed, Eleanor Roosevelt, a niece of Theodore Roosevelt. In 1903, Franklin proposed to Eleanor.
Hace 4 días · Henry VIII's wives Jane Seymour and Catherine Parr, author Mary Wollstonecraft, and Theodore Roosevelt's first wife, Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt, all died as a result of doing what? Answer: Giving birth
Hace 3 días · Did you know there is a memorial to Eleanor Roosevelt, lying forgotten inside the United Nations Sculpture Garden? It is practically inaccessible and efforts to restore it over the past few...
Hace 1 día · The film's success is credited with establishing Hathaway as a bankable actress and reviving Andrews's film career. A sequel, Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement, was released in 2004, and a third installment has been in development since 2022.
