Marion "Minnie" O'Shea Roosevelt (1850 – 1902) was an Irish writer and second wife of Robert Roosevelt.[1]
Marion O'Shea Roosevelt | |
|---|---|
| Born | Marion Theresa O'Shea 1850 Nenagh, County Tipperary, Ireland |
| Died | 1902 (aged 51–52) |
Early life edit
Marion O'Shea Roosevelt was born in 1850 in Nenagh, County Tipperary. Her parents were John and Mary Anne O'Shea (née Gill) of Summerhill, Nenagh. Her father was a journalist with The Nenagh Guardian. Her mother was a sister of the editor-proprietor of the Tipperary Advocate, Peter E. Gill, and the aunt of T. P. Gill. Her older brother John Augustus was a soldier, journalist and novelist, and her sister Elizabeth was a writer who emigrated to India. Another sister, Margaret (Mrs Kelly) (1854–1927) was noted as being fluent in a number of languages, and translated French works, and her brother Robert Gabriel (1854?–1882) was the London political correspondent for the Freeman's Journal.[1]
Family edit
Some accounts state that Roosevelt was married first to Robert Fortescue and widowed,[1] others have stated that this was an alias of Robert Roosevelt,[2] the uncle of Theodore Roosevelt, who she later married on 14 August 1888.[3][4] They had three children who were referred to as Robert's stepchildren:[5]
- Kenyon Fortescue (1871–1939),[6] who became an attorney.[2]
- Major Granville Roland "Rolly" Fortescue (1875–1952), who married Grace Hubbard Bell (1883–1979), niece of Alexander Graham Bell.[2]
- Maude Fortescue (1880–1961),[7] who married Ernest William Sutton Pickhardt in 1900 and moved to London. Pickhardt was the son of Manhattan millionaire Ernest W. Pickhardt and the brother of Baroness Irene von Colberg.[8] They divorced before Pickhardt's suicide in 1909.[9] In 1945, she married Brigadier General Richard L. A. Pennington.[2]
Roosevelt published articles and poems in American journals.[1] She died on 10 April 1902 in Atlantic City.[10]
References edit
- ^ a b c d Murphy, Nancy (2009). "Marion O'Shea In O'Shea, John Augustus". In McGuire, James; Quinn, James (eds.). Dictionary of Irish Biography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- ^ a b c d Spinzia, Raymond E. (July 2010). "Those Other Roosevelts: The Fortescues" (PDF). spinzialongislandestates.com. The Oyster Bay Historical Society’s The Freeholder. Retrieved 20 August 2017.
- ^ "Robert Barnwell Roosevelt". elections.harpweek.com. Retrieved 16 October 2020.
- ^ Biographical dictionary of American and Canadian naturalists and environmentalists. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. 1997. p. 681. ISBN 9780313230479.
- ^ "Robert Barnwell Roosevelt". www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org. Retrieved 16 October 2020.
- ^ "KENYON FORTESCUE, RETIRED ATTORNEY; Long Had Been Associated With Firm of Roosevelt & Kobbe". The New York Times. 17 March 1939. Retrieved 20 August 2017.
- ^ "Major G.R. Fortescue Now Seriously Ill; Worry Over Wife's Plight Causes Relapse". The New York Times. 11 January 1932. Retrieved 20 August 2017.
- ^ The New York Times, July 8, 1909, p. 4.
- ^ "DRUG KILLS E.W.S. PICKHARDT; Took Overdose for Insomnia -- Married Stepdaughter of R.B. Roosevelt". The New York Times. 8 July 1909. Retrieved 20 August 2017.
- ^ "Death of Marion Fortescue Roosevlet 11 April 1902". New-York Tribune. 11 April 1902. p. 6. Retrieved 16 October 2020.