Born: April 9, 1894, Washington, DC
Died: October 13, 1979, Palm Springs/Hobe Sound, Florida
Married:
Grace Lockwood, Emmanuel Church of Boston, on 14 April 1917 Boston, MA. Daughter of THOMAS LOCKWOOD and EMMELINE STACKPOLE.
Children:
ARCHIBALD BULLOCH ROOSEVELT, JR., b. February 18, 1918, Boston, MA; d. May 31, 1990, Washington, DC. [Congressional Record Obituary of Archibald Jr]
THEODORA ROOSEVELT (Novelist), b. June 30, 1919, New York City; m. (1) THOMAS C. KEOGH, June 8, 1945; m. (2) THOMAS O'TOOLE, Aft. 1946; m. (3) A.A. RAUSCHFUSS, Aft. 1947.
NANCY DABNEY ROOSEVELT, b. July 26, 1923, New York City.
EDITH KERMIT ROOSEVELT, b. December 19, 1926, New York City.

The following is an unpublished hand-written letter, dated at the White House, November 15, 1904 (not long after the election of 1904), and addressed to Miss Elizabeth Edna Marshall at Sidwell's Friends School, Washington, DC.

Dear Miss Marshall

Can Archie be excused for Wednesday last, when he was suffering from"too much election," and for yesterday, Monday, when in the hurry of bustling out of the White House he managed to forget his books. I am aware that the last seems rather a slender excuse, but Archie evidently hopes it may suffice--& I hope so too, even though I have doubts!

Theodore Roosevelt

Born 9 April 1893, Archibald Bulloch Roosevelt graduated from Harvard in June of 1916 and found his first employment at the Bigelow Carpet Company, Thompsonville, Connecticut. After being wounded and earning the Croix de Guerre while serving with the US Army in World War I, Archie became, for a time, an executive with the Sinclair Oil Company and thereafter held various positions with the family investment firm, Roosevelt & Son.

Archie was wounded once more and earned the Silver Star with Oak Leaf Clusters while serving as a Lt. Colonel with the US Army in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Thereafter he co-founded the investment firm Roosevelt and Cross, a highly-successful brokerage house specializing in municipal bonds.

Archie married Grace Lockwood, of Boston, on 14 April 1917. The couple spent most of their married life in a pre-Revolutionary house on Turkey Lane in Cold Spring Harbor, NY, not far from Oyster Bay, where they raised four children. Grace Lockwood Roosevelt died in an automobile crash near her home in Cold Spring Harbor in 1971, her husband Archie at the wheel. Archie died eight years later - on 13 October 1979 - of a stroke, at his winter home in Hobe Sound, Florida. He is buried with his wife in the Roosevelt family plot at Youngs Cemetery, Oyster Bay. His tombstone reads: "The old fighting man home from the wars."

Archie Roosevelt
photo courtesy of Eric Lander

Gravestone for Archie and Grace Roosevelt at Young's Memorial Cemetery in Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York, the same cemetary where Archie's parents are buried.

 

Archie with Theodore Roosevelt

 

A not quite 2 year old Archie in the arms of his father, then Civil Service Commissioner in Washington, D.C. January 1895. Excerpt from photo of family at that time.
[Theodore Roosevelt Collection Harvard College Library - copyright 2000 ]

CHILDHOOD


(From Old Orchard Museum Label Copy): Archie, the fifth child, spent much of his childhood in Washington where he became a favorite of the reporters. At Sagamore Hill, when he wasn't making mischief around the house, one would find him sailing in the Bay with friends and his dog Skip, in a beloved boat called the "Why."

When he was 13, Archie, less robust than the other children, became seriously ill. There were anxious moments while those in Washington watched the light in his White House window burning throughout the night. Archie pulled through, in the typical Roosevelt fashion. After graduating from Harvard in 1917, Archie married Grace Lockwood of Boston.

MILITARY SERVICE
He then entered the Army, where, as a Captain [WWI], he was wounded three times. Archie also served in the Second World War, in the South Pacific, coming out as a Lt. Colonel with many decorations. A ridge in New Guinea was named for him, the first to be named for an American in the Pacific during the war.

  • Awarded the Bronze Star, two Silver Stars, and the Purple Heart
    Awarded the Croix de Guerre by the French government
    World War I Captain
    World War II Lt. Colonel
  • only US soldier in history to have been 100% disabled from two wars

After World War II, Roosevelt became Chairman of the Board of Roosevelt & Cross, a Wall Street investment firm, commuting from his home in Cold Spring Harbor. ROOSEVELT & CROSS
(from the Company's published materials): Roosevelt & Cross was founded 1946 by two financial visionaries: Archibald B. Roosevelt, the son of President Teddy Roosevelt, and Edwin J. Cross, a skilled trader and underwriting specialist. Their mission was clear and precise. It was to emphasize professionalism and integrity in their relationships with clients and with their colleagues in the municipal bond community. The original firm, Roosevelt & Son (from which Roosevelt & Cross evolved) was founded in 1797 as a hardware and plate glass mercantile company...a company that became a banking concern with railroad and communication investments.

By the 1900s they were a well known investment banking firm who later developed a strong presence in the municipal bond market. Because their principals were on the Boards of New York's most influential banks, the municipal bond activities were spun off as a result of the 1933 Glass-Steagall Act. Archibald Roosevelt carried on the municipal business and, in 1946, upon return from serving his country at war, he reorganized his firm and participated in and contributed to the great infrastructure growth that marked New York and the Northeast in the last half of the century.