After his wife’s death in 1884, Roosevelt rekindled a romance with his childhood love and second wife, Edith Kermit Carow (married 1886). They had five children; Theodore ... of the Navy to be ...

On October 28, 1858, Theodore Roosevelt was born into one ... Two days later, his wife died after giving birth to their first child, Alice Lee. Although he would go on to marry Edith K.