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ROOSA, Daniel Bennett St. John, ophthal- mologist and otologist, was born in Bethel, N.Y., April 4, 183S ; son of Charles Baker and Amelia Elmer (Foster) Roosa ; grandson of John and DoUj^ (Durj-ea) Roosa and of Jesse M. and Delia (Heard) Foster ; and great-grandson of Lieut. Isaac A. Roosa, Capt. George Duryea, Captain Foster and General Heard, all officers in the Con- tinental army. He attended the district school ; studied under a private tutor and at the academies in Monticello, N.Y., and Honesdale, Pa., matricu- lated at Yale college in 1856, but was obliged to leave on account of ill-health ; studied under a tutor in Boston for one year, and was graduated from the Medical department of the Universicy of the City of New York in 1860. He served in the New York hospital as junior walker, senior walker, and house surgeon, 1800-61 ; volunteered as medical officer in 1861, and was appointed assist- ant surgeon of the 5th volunteer regiment, N.G.S. N.Y., serving in the field four months. He studied in Berlin and Vienna, devoting himself especially to ophthalmology and otology, 1862-63, and in June of the latter year again served in the field as surgeon of the 12th N. Y. National Guards. He later practised medicine in New York city ; was professor of ophthalmology and otologj" in the University of the City of New York, 1863-82, and in the University of Vermont, 1875-76 and 1878-83. Upon the organization of the New York Post-Graduate Medical scliool and hospital in 1882, he was elected president of the faculty and professor of ophthalmology and otology. He was first married. May 8, 1862, to Mary Hoyt, daughter of Stephen M. and Elizabeth (Bowman) Blake of New York city, who died in 1878 ; and secondly, July, 1879, to Sarah E., former wife of Frank E. Howe and daughter of Eder Vreelland and Eliza- beth (Workam) Haughwout of New York city. He received the honorary degree of A.M. from Yale in 1868 ; that of LL. D. from the University of Vermont, 1881, and was a member of the coun- cil of the University of the City of New York, 1872-78. He was president of the International Otological society, 1876 ; of the New York State Medical society, 1879, and of other scientific organizations ; a founder of the Manhattan Eye and Ear hospital in 1869, and one of its surgeons. He translated from the German : " Troltsch on the Ear " (1863), and " Stellwag on the Eye " (with Hackey and Bull, (1867); and is the author of: Drs. Vest-Pocket Medical Lexicon (1865; 2d ed., 1887); Treatise on the Ear (1866), translated into German, and published in Berlin ; A Doctor's Suggestions (1880) ; TJie Old Hospital and Other Papers (1886) ; On the Necessity of Wearing Glasses (1899) ; Treatise on the Eye, a Clinical Manual (1891); and frequent contributions to periodicals.

ROOSEVELT, Edith Kermit, wife of Presi- dent Roosevelt, was born in Norwich, Conn., Aug. 6, 1861 ; daughter of Cliarles and Gertrude Eliza- beth (Tyler) Carow ; granddaughter of Isaac and Eliza (Mowatt) Carow, and of Daniel and Emily (Lee) Tyler, and a descendant of Isaac Quereau and Judith Quentin (Huguenots) who emigrated, from France after the revocation of the edict of Nantes, first to Holland and then to New York city, and of Job Tyler and Mary, his wife, who emigrated from Shropshire, England, were ad- mitted to the town of Newport, R. I., 1638 (Colo- nial Records, Vol. 1., p. 92) and settled at Andover, Mass., 1639. She was educated in New York city, and was married Dec. 2, 1886, to Theodore Roosevelt. They made their home at Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, Long Island, N.Y. Following are tiie names of their children : Theodore, Jr., born Sept. 13, 1887 ; Kermit, born Oct. 10, 1889 ; Ethel Carow, born Aug. 10, 1891 ; Archibald Bul- loch, born April 9, 1894 ; Quentin, born Nov, 19, 1897. On the accession of her husband to the Presidency she removed to the Wliite House, where her social duties were made secondary to those of her household, and the liome-life at Sag- amore Hill with its well ordered routine of study and recreation in which the whole family joined, was maintained.

ROOSEVELT, James Henry, philanthropist, was born in New York city, Nov. 10, 1800 ; son of James Christopher and Catherine(Byvank) Roose- velt. He was graduated from Columbia college, A.B., 1819, A. M., 1823; and studied law, but never practised, owing to delicate health. He bequeathed $1,000,000 to found the hospital in New York city that bears his name. The build- ing, was opened, Nov. 2, 1871, and the fund had been so ably handled that $3,000,000 was avail- able for the purpose of the bequest. He died in New York city, Nov. 30, 1863.

ROOSEVELT, James I., jurist, was born in New York city, Dec. 14, 1795 ; son of James (or Jacobus) J., and Mary (Van Schaick) Roosevelt ; grandson of Jacobus and Armatje Bogard (or Bogert) Roosevelt ; great-grandson of Johannes and Heyltjes (Sjverts) Roosevelt ; great-^grand- son of Nicholas and Heyltje Jans (Kunst) Roose- velt ; and great-^grandson of Klaas Martenseu and Jannetje (Samuels or Thomas) Roosevelt, New Amsterdam, 1649. His father was a com- missary of New York troops in the American Revolution. He was graduated from Columbia college in 1815, and practised law in partnership with Peter Jay, 1818-30. He supported General Jackson for President in 1838, and resided in Paris, France, 1830-31. On his return to the United States, he was married. May 30, 1831, to Cornelia, daughter of Cornelius P. and Rhoda (Savage) Van Ness of New York city ; resumed