Joanna Mercedes Alessandra Sturm

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She is is a great-granddaughter of 26th U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt and the granddaughter of Alice Roosevelt Longworth. Left an orphan at a very young age, custody of Joanna was granted to her grandmother, Alice Longworth who doted on her granddaughter and the two were very close.

In the past thirty years, six books have been written about Alice Roosevelt with Sturm being a significant cited resource.
She has provided historical information and insights into the world of the Roosevelts of Hyde Park and Oyster Bay to virtually every Roosevelt biographer of the last thirty years, and she is credited by almost every professional TR biographer since 1970.

For more info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanna_Sturm

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He was was an American artist and writer who was a co-founder of Sturm, Ruger, a firearms manufacturer. As a writer and artist, he was, during his life, perhaps best known for his two popular illustrated children's books, The Problem Fox and From Ambush to Zig-zag, both published before he graduated from Yale, and for his playboy bon vivant lifestyle among the rich and famous.

Always sickly, Alexander Sturm became seriously ill in 1951 with hepatitis and died suddenly and unexpectedly. His wife, Paulina Longworth Sturm, died in 1957. Their daughter Joanna Sturm was raised by her grandmother Alice Roosevelt Longworth, who was the daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt.

More info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_McCormick_Sturm

Buried:
Grave location:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=26019813

Alexander married Paulina Longworth 1944. Paulina (daughter of Nicholas Longworth, IV and Alice Lee Roosevelt) was born 14 Feb 1925, Washington, DC; died 27 Jan 1957, Washington, DC; was buried , Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC. [Group Sheet]

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She was was the only child of Alice Roosevelt, and the granddaughter of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt. Her legal father was Alice Roosevelt's husband, Speaker of the House Nicholas Longworth; her biological father, however, was Senator William Borah.


More info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulina_Longworth

Buried:
Grave location:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=10597582

Notes:

He was was a prominent American politician in the Republican Party during the first few decades of the 20th century. He served as House Majority Leader from 1923 to 1925 and subsequently as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1925 to 1931.

More info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Longworth

Buried:
Grave location, bio, and photos:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=4586

Died:
While visiting friends in Aiken, South Carolina, Longworth caught pneumonia and died unexpectedly.

Nicholas married Alice Lee Roosevelt 1906, White House, Washington, DC. Alice (daughter of Theodore Roosevelt and Alice Hathaway Lee) was born 12 Feb 1884, New York City; died 20 Feb 1980, Washington, DC; was buried , Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC. [Group Sheet]

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She was the oldest child of Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States. She was the only child of Roosevelt and his first wife, Alice Hathaway Lee. Her marriage to Representative Nicholas Longworth (Republican-Ohio), a party leader and 43rd Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, was shaky, and the couple's only child was a result of her affair with Senator William Borah of Idaho.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth led an unconventional and controversial life.

More info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Roosevelt_Longworth

Buried:
Grave location, photo, and bio
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=1656

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26th United States President, 25th United States Vice-President, New York Governor, United States Army Officer, Spanish-American War Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient.

More info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt

Buried:
Grave location, bio, and photo:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Roosevelt&GSiman=1&GScid=641181&GRid=898&

Theodore married Alice Hathaway Lee 27 Oct 1880, Brookline, MA. Alice was born 29 Jul 1861, Chestnut Hll, MA; died 14 Feb 1884, New York City; was buried , Green-Wood Cemetery Brooklyn, NY. [Group Sheet]

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Buried:
Grave location, bio, and photo:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=4775