He left his infant daughter in the care of his sister Anna, known as 'Bamie' or 'Bye'. Seeking solace, Theodore retreated from his life in New York and headed west, where he spent two years traveling and living on his ranch in North Dakota.

She continued this practice late in life, often preferring to be called 'Mrs. Therefore, his daughter Alice was called 'Baby Lee' instead of by her first name. He almost never spoke of her again, would not allow her to be mentioned in his presence, and even omitted her name from his autobiography. Theodore was rendered so distraught by his wife's death that he could not bear to think about her. Eleven hours earlier that day, Theodore's mother, Martha Stewart 'Mittie' Bulloch, had also died, of typhoid fever. Two days after her birth, in the same house, her mother died of undiagnosed kidney failure. As an Oyster Bay Roosevelt, Alice was a descendant of the Schuyler family. Her father, Theodore, was then a New York State Assemblyman. Her mother, Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt, was a Boston banking heiress. Roosevelt family in 1903 with Quentin on the left, Theodore Roosevelt, Ted, Archie, Alice, Kermit, Edith, and Ethel.ДЄlice Lee Roosevelt was born in the Roosevelt family home at 6 West 57th St.

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