FEBRUARY 14 = T.R.'s tragic day.

"There is a curse on this house! Mother is dying and Alice is dying too."
These were the forboding words with which Elliot Roosevelt greeted his sister Corrine as she reached the home on 57'th Street in New York City at 10:30 p.m. on February 13, 1884. Their brother, State Assemblyman Theodore Roosevelt would arrive an hour later to this heartbreaking scene -his mother and his young wife, Alice (above) who had just the day before given birth to their daughter Alice both on their deathbeds. Yes this is the tragic scene which overtook one young man in the 1880's on this day of love.
What happenned to T.R. way back then? And how did he deal with it? Log onto Brian's blog "Today in History" and read of how the light went out of this young man's life that day... for a time anyway.