Miscellaneous documents, 1653-1955.

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Miscellaneous documents, 1653-1955.

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Letters, surveys, photographs, programs, memorabilia and other material relating to Sagamore Hill and Theodore Roosevelt. Included are a transcript of the deed, 1653, from the Sagamore Mohenes (or Mohannis) to Peter Wright and others for land on Cove Neck which would become the site of Sagamore Hill; survey by George Townsend of the land of Samuel Youngs on Cove Neck, 1716; certificate of appointment of James N. Roosevelt as lieutenant in the New York City militia, 1787; photocopies of estimates and agreements with John A. Wood and Son of Long Island for building Sagamore Hill, 1884; a floorplan sketch of Sagamore Hill by Theodore Roosevelt, ca. 1885; notes on the Roosevelt family from the 18th century New York Dutch church records; and fragments of manuscripts of books by TR, on White House stationery, typed with handwritten additions.

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Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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Sagamore Hill National Historic Site (Agency : U.S.)

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Sagamore Hill was the home of the 26th president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, from 1885 until his death in 1919. It is located in Cove Neck, New York, near Oyster Bay on the North Shore of Long Island. It is now the Sagamore Hill National Historic Site, which includes the Theodore Roosevelt Museum in a later building on the grounds....

Roosevelt, Edith Kermit Carow, 1861-1948

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Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt was the second wife and First Lady of her childhood companion and the 26th President, Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909). Edith Kermit Carow knew Theodore Roosevelt from infancy; as a toddler she became a playmate of his younger sister Corinne. Born in Connecticut in 1861, daughter of Charles and Gertrude Tyler Carow, she grew up in an old New York brownstone on Union Square — an environment of comfort and tradition. Throughout childhood she and “Teedie” were in and o...

Roosevelt (Family)

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The Roosevelt family is an American business and political family from New York whose members have included two United States Presidents, a First Lady, and various merchants, politicians, inventors, clergymen, artists, and socialites. Progeny of a mid-17th century Dutch immigrant to New Amsterdam, many members of the family became locally prominent in New York City business and politics and intermarried with prominent colonial families. Two distantly related branches of the family from Oyster Ba...

Youngs, Samuel

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Wright, Peter

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Roosevelt, James I., 1795-1875

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U.S. representative of New York, lawyer, jurist, and farmer. From the description of Letters of James I. Roosevelt, 1842. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71015400 James John Roosevelt, also known as James I., was a congressman and lawyer, born in New York City on December 14, 1795; admitted to the bar in 1818; member of the New York State Assembly in 1835 and 1840; member of the U.S. House of Representatives, 1841 to 1843; Justice of the New York Supreme Court, 1851 to 1859; ...

Townsend, George Wilfred Lambert, 1896-1962

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Townsend served in Company G, 5th Michigan Cavalry, during the Civil War. From the description of George W. Townsend papers, 1863. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 79618610 From the description of George W. Townsend papers, 1863. [microform] (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 82744662 George Wilfred Lambert Townsend was born on 5th April, 1896, and educated at Trinity Grammar, Melbourne. He joined the Australian administration in New Guinea i...

Mohenes Indians.

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Boy Scouts of America

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The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) is one of the largest Scouting organizations in the United States of America and one of the largest youth organizations in the United States, with more than 2.4 million youth participants and nearly one million adult volunteers. The BSA was founded in 1910, and since then, more than 110 million Americans have been participants in BSA programs at some time. The BSA is part of the international Scout Movement and became a founding member organization of the World Or...

Derby, Ethel Roosevlet.

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John A. Wood and Son.

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Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

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Roosevelt, 26th U.S. president, served 1901-1909. From the description of DS, 1904 March 1. : Washington, D.C. Homestead Certificate. (Copley Press, J S Copley Library). WorldCat record id: 15210791 26th president of the United States, 1901-1909. From the description of Theodore Roosevelt letters, 1917, 1918. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 213408920 Roosevelt was then Governor of New York. Chapman was one of the founders of the New York St...

Panama Canal.

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New York (N.Y.). Militia.

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