HISTORICALLY YOURS
It’s hard to lose a loved one and no less difficult for a person in the public eye. But losing two on the same day just hours apart can be devastating. Such was the case for Theodore Roosevelt on February 14, 1884. A member of the New York State Assembly from the 21st district, Roosevelt was called home to find his mother had succumbed to typhoid fever. That same day, just two days after the birth of his daughter Alice, his wife passed away from undiagnosed kidney failure. That day Roosevelt wrote a large ”x” in his diary then “The light has gone out of my life.”
