Additionally, he was a founder of the American Museum of Natural History (the charter of which was accepted in Theodore's front parlor at 28 E 20th St.), the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the New York Orthopedic Hospital. President Rutherford B. was a noted New York City philanthropist. involved in a variety of charity work including the Society of the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, and a Newsboys Lodging Home. was also the grandfather of Eleanor Roosevelt, Elliott's daughter. and Martha were known as 'Thee' and 'Mittie'. The Roosevelts had four children, each of whom had a nickname: Anna ('Bamie'), Theodore ('Teedie'), Elliott ('Ellie'), and Corinne ('Conie'). married Martha Bulloch on Decemat Bulloch Hall in Roswell, Georgia. He was a seventh-generation Dutch New Yorker and participant in the Roosevelt family business of plate-glass importing, Roosevelt and Son. He was the youngest of Cornelius Van Schaack Roosevelt and Margaret Barnhill's five sons. a big, powerful man, with a leonine face, and his heart filled with gentleness for those who needed help or protection, with the possibility of much wrath against a bully or an oppressor.' (p.7,10) He combined strength and courage with gentleness tenderness and great unselfishness. had a tremendous influence on his son, and in adulthood, the younger Roosevelt wrote about his father in his autobiography: '.the best man I ever knew.

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