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he became engaged to Theodore Roosevelt’s niece, Eleanor Roosevelt, who was also his distant cousin. They married on March 17, 1905, and went on to have one daughter and five sons, one of whom died in ...

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, ...