Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and family history of New York . ence fell upon the group. It lasted but a minute andthen Mr. Roosevelt spoke: Mr. Secretary, I shall take theoath at once, agreeable to the request of the members of thecabinet, and in this hour of trouble and national bereavementI wish to state that it shall be my aim to continue absolutely un-broken the policy of President McKinley, for the peace and])rosperity and honor of our beloved country. He then tookthe oath and Vice-President Theodore Roosevelt became thetwenty-sixth President of the United States. His
Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and family history of New York . ence fell upon the group. It lasted but a minute andthen Mr. Roosevelt spoke: Mr. Secretary, I shall take theoath at once, agreeable to the request of the members of thecabinet, and in this hour of trouble and national bereavementI wish to state that it shall be my aim to continue absolutely un-broken the policy of President McKinley, for the peace and])rosperity and honor of our beloved country. He then tookthe oath and Vice-President Theodore Roosevelt became thetwenty-sixth President of the United States. His course is so GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY 27 olearly marked that all recognize his policy, and although theyoungest who ever occupied the presidential chair, he has theconfidence and support of leading men throughout the nation. It is difficult to conceive how any one so thoroughly absorbedin public affairs could find time to devote to literary work, andyet Colonel Eoosevelt has achieved a world-wide reputation asin author, and his works have become standard on the subjects. Theodore Roosevelt Library. he has treated. Among the best known are: History of theNaval War of 1812 (1882) and Hunting Trips of a Baneh-man (1883). As a biographer he has won fame as the authorof the Life of Thomas Benton (1886); and Life of Gouver-ueur Morris (1888). He has also published History of theCity of New York (1890); Essays on Practical Politics(1898); and has collaborated with Cajitain A. S. Mahan inn-riting- the Imperial History of the British Navy; he is also 28 GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY joint author with Henry Cahot Lodge of Hero Tales fromAmerican History. The most important of his works, how-ever, are the volumes bearing the collective title The AVin-niug of the West. These have for their subject the accjuisitionby the United States of the territory west of the AUeghanies,and in their intrinsic merit and their importance as contribu-tions to history they rank with tlie works of P
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