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From New York To Oyster: ROOSEVELT, Theodore, 26th president of the United States: b. New York, N.Y., Oct. 27, 1858; d. Oyster Bay, N.Y., Jan. 6, 1919. His Manhattan birthplace, at 28 East 20th Street, is now a museum and the headquarters of the Theodore Roosevelt Association.
Author, naturalist, explorer, soldier, and statesman, Theodore Roosevelt came from a well-to-do mercantile family of Dutch extraction.
But if Roosevelt's charities began at home, they did not end there. His personal benefactions, never advertised, were legion. At the height of his fame, the man whom many of his contemporaries thought of as a roaring lion going about seeking whom he might devour was capable of taking a peevish baby from the arms of her tired mother on a train and walking the Floor with her until he had put her to sleep, of washing his companion's underwear on a hunting trip, of sharing the only drinking water available with a strange dog, and of carrying a bowl of goldfish out from New York to Oyster Bay in bitter winter weather because a little girl wanted them and the delivery people were not willing to accept responsibility for them.
The aqualung extended other arts and sciences
into the underwater realm, including farming.
Elc Oyster plantations as deep as 60 feet were openedt in Brittany, tended by independent divers. |
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