![]() ![]() Edith managed the Long Island estate, both in terms of finances and personnel. In addition to raising Alice, the Roosevelts had five more children: Theodore (Ted), Jr. The childhood friends married on December 2, 1886, and began living at Sagamore Hill that same year. Theodore and Edith rekindled their friendship after a chance encounter at the home of Theodore’s older sister Anna in New York. In 1884, Alice Lee died from Bright’s disease after giving birth to a daughter, Alice. ![]() ![]() Shortly thereafter, Theodore met Alice Hathaway Lee and they married in 1880, but their time together was short-lived. As teenagers, Theodore and Edith saw each other often and exchanged letters-but before Theodore left for Harvard University, they stopped writing to each other. Edith received most of her early education from tutors, and later attended Miss Comstock’s private school. The Carows were neighbors of the Roosevelt family, and Edith was childhood friends with Corinne Roosevelt, sister of Theodore Roosevelt. She was the daughter of Charles Carow and Gertrude Tyler. Edith Kermit Carow was born on August 6, 1861, in Manhattan, New York. ![]()
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