President Theodore Roosevelt, often known as Teddy ... one of the original bears for his children. After treasuring it for a year, the family donated the bear to the Smithsonian in 1964.

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, Kermit, Ethel, Archibald, ...

He even paid other children to collect specimens for him ... to organize for the conservation of game and game habitat. Theodore Roosevelt, an avid hunter, joined the fight.

Kermit Roosevelt was Theodore and Edith Roosevelt’s second child. When TR accepted an invitation to the Amazon after he lost the 1912 election, Edith pleaded with her son to accompany and watch ...

As a sickly child, he was given strong cups of coffee ... says Joshua Reyes of the Sagamore Hill National Historic Site, Theodore Roosevelt’s former home, “but they catered to recent ...