A puzzle regarding Roosevelt photo.

[Grasswire2]

So I'm transcribing old family letters from Connecticut. One from 1922 tells us that little Ruthie, age 4, is being told by her older sister that the photo of Roosevelt hanging on the wall in the living room is really a photo of her grandfather who moved out west.

In 1922 would that be a photo of Teddy Roosevelt? 1922 is between the presidential terms of Teddy and FDR. And IIRC, the grandfather who moved out west from Connecticut hated the Roosevelts from family years spent living on Long Island.

So. Teddy? Or FDR?

Whaddya think?

[choie]

1. I would guess Theodore Roosevelt

First, by 1922 i believe the highest political position that FDR had Held was Assistant Sec.of the Navy, which probably wouldn’t have earned him a photo on your family’s wall. Second, Theodore Roosevelt has a house at Sagamore Hill on lLong Island, so that could be the connection to the grandfather who had lived on Long Island.

[Historic NY]

2. FDR was getting braces then after contracting polio in August 1921

and Teddy died Jan. 1919 one of his last public appearances was in my town in Sept.

Neither were in office especially Teddy. Teddy last yr as President was 1909

Perhaps its an old picture

[Grasswire2]

6. How nice to have a DU member called "Historic NY" :-) nt

[Grasswire2]

7. Long family history on Long Island

Part ownership of Plum Island in the 1600s (Lighthouse keepers for 43 years in the late 18th century), and deep old family connections to Greenport, Southold, Southampton, Smithtown, etc.

Were the Roosevelts seen as interlopers by the old families? Do you know?

[csziggy]

8. Of course, the picture was written about in 1922 but could easily have been from earlier

So it could have been a picture of Theodore Roosevelt from before his death.

Sometime in the last week someone posted a picture of Theodore Roosevelt in the Western US. Not sure, but this could have been the one:

TR & John Muir at Glacier Point in Yosemite.
https://www.doi.gov/blog/theodore-roosevelts-legacy

[whistler162]

3. Any family connection to the Rough Riders or

the Spanish-American war.

[Grasswire2]

5. no

I do know that parts of Long Island had some sort of animosity to the Roosevelts and their ilk. My family had been in the area since the mid 1600s as property owners, and that's plenty of time to build up neighborly animosity.