Mildred and Philip Sawyer Papers / New-York Historical Society Theodore Roosevelt was famously possessed ... not only tolerated his six children’s antics but frequently encouraged them.

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, ...

Theodore Roosevelt remarries, this time to his childhood sweetheart, Edith Carow, and settles in at Sagamore Hill, the family home in Oyster Bay, New York. There, with his wife and six children ...

Following Theodore Roosevelt's refusal to shoot a mother bear while on a hunting trip, stuffed toy "Teddy Bears" begin their ascent to childhood icon status. Children also favor Barnum's Animal ...

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.

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.