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
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
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]
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