The maiden name of the wife of President Roosevelt was Edith
Kermit Carow, and she, like her husband, comes of one of the most
distinguished of the older families of New York. Born in the metropolis
in the old Carow mansion, Fourteenth street and Union square, her
father was Charles Carow, and her grandfather General Tyler Carow,
of Norwich, Connecticut. She was educated at a school kept by a Miss
Comstock on West Fortieth street. She was married to the President on
December 2, 1886, at St. George’s church, Hanover square, London, the
ceremony being performed by Canon Cammadge, who is a cousin of Mrs.
Roosevelt. Fortune has never been more kind to Mr. Roosevelt than
when she gave him the amiable and beautiful woman who bears his name.
The Roosevelt children seem to have inherited many of the attractive
qualities of their mother.