THEODORE ROOSEVELT: A CHRONOLOGY
cattle rancher; establishes second open-
range ranch, Elkhorn Ranch, near
1858 October 27. Theodore Roosevelt born
7:45 p.m. in brownstone townhouse at
28 East 20th Street, New York City
(now Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace
National Historic Site), son of Martha
Bulloch Roosevelt and Theodore
Roosevelt, Senior.
1876 Enters Harvard College
1880 June 30. Graduates with B.A., magna
cum laude, from Harvard College.
October 27. TR married to Alice
Hathaway Lee of Chestnut Hill,
Massachusetts, in Unitarian Church,
Brookline, Massachusetts.
1881 November 8. Elected as Republican
from twenty-first district, New York
City, to New York State Assembly.
Reelected 1882, 1883; serves in
Assembly 1882-1884; Minority Leader
Medora.
1884-1886 TR is rancher in Badlands. Today some
75,000 acres of the Badlands near
Medora form Theodore Roosevelt
National Park. TR's Maltese Cross cabin
preserved at park.
1885 TR's house, "Sagamore Hill,” on Cove
Neck, Oyster Bay, Long Island, New
York, completed on land purchased in
1883.
1882 The Naval War of 1812, TR's first book,
published by G.P. Putnam's Sons, New
York.
1883 TR goes west to Badlands, Dakota
Territory in September; buys
partnership in Maltese Cross Ranch
(also known as Chimney Butte Ranch),
near what is now Medora, North
1883.
1886 October. TR nominated as Republican
candidate for Mayor of New York City.
November 2. TR comes in third for
Mayor behind winning Democrat,
Abram S. Hewitt, and Labor candidate,
Henry George.
December 2. TR married to Edith
Kermit Carow in St. George's Church,
Hanover Square, London.
1887 Theodore and Edith Roosevelt take up
residence at Sagamore Hill. They have
five children: Theodore, Junior (born
1887), Kermit (1889), Ethel Carow
(1891), Archibald Bulloch (1894), and
Quentin (1897).
1889 May 7. TR appointed one of three
members of the United States Civil
Service Commission in Washington by
President Benjamin Harrison;
reappointed by President Grover
Cleveland.
1889-1895 TR serves in Washington as U.S. Civil
Service Commissioner.
1889-1896 The Winning of the West, Roosevelt's
history of the American Frontier from
1763 to 1807, published in four
volumes.
Dakota.
1884 February 12. Daughter Alice Lee
Roosevelt born in New York City.
February 14. TR's wife Alice Hathaway
Lee Roosevelt dies of Bright's Disease
at 2:00 p.m.; TR's mother Martha
Bulloch Roosevelt died, on same day in
same house in New York City, of
Typhoid Fever at 3:00 a.m.
June. TR is delegate to Republican
National Convention, Chicago.
June. TR goes to Badlands to be
1895 April 25. TR resigns as Civil Service
Commissioner, effective May 5.
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