In October. 1880 she married Mr. James Roosevelt and came to Hyde Park to be mistress of his estate. He died in 1900. Thereafter she increasingly devoted herself to her, son. her only child, her home. farm, European travel and charities. Her charitable interests were wide and many but were carried on so quietly that none knew of them.
Her son was her favourite topic and she never tired of relating anecdotes of his childhood. Although she lived to see him serve more than two terms as President, she claimed she had never considered the possibility the high office would fall to her child, She said that all she had wanted and ° wished was that he "grow up like his father, straight, honourable, just; and kind—an upstanding American."
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