Kermit Roosevelt and Belle Roosevelt papers, 1725-1975

Biographical Note

Date	Event
1889, Oct. 10	Born, Oyster Bay, Long Island, N.Y.
1908	Graduated from Groton School, Groton, Mass.
1909	Accompanied his father, Theodore Roosevelt, on a hunting expedition to Africa
1912	Graduated from Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
1912-1916	Engaged in engineering and banking in South America
1913	Member, Theodore Roosevelt's expedition to Brazil in search of the source of the Duvida River
1914	Married Belle Wyatt Willard
1917	Joined the British armed forces and served in Mesopotamia
1918	Transferred from the British to the United States army in France
1919-1938	Executive, various steamship lines
1939	Resigned from the shipping business and entered the British army
1939-1941	Served with British armed forces in Norway and Egypt
1942-1943	Joined the United States army and served in Alaska
1943, June 4	Died, Alaska

Date	Event
1892, July 1	Born, Baltimore, Md.
1914	Married Kermit Roosevelt
1939	Organized and directed the business, Your Secretary, Inc.
1941	Organized Young America Wants To Help, Junior Division, British War Relief
1944	Campaigned for the reelection of Franklin D. Roosevelt
1968, Mar. 30	Died, New York, N.Y.