He also helped found the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the American Museum of Natural History, and the New York Children's Orthopedic Hospital. were given a clean bed in a warm room for five cents, a fraction of what was charged by the lowest kind of commercial flophouse.
where nightly several hundred stray boys.
a permanent Newsboys' Lodging house established. Related to this, and largely through his initiative, Roosevelt helped found the New York City Children's Aid Society. He served as a member of the plate-glass importing business Roosevelt & Son. Roosevelt was also the father of President Theodore Roosevelt and the paternal grandfather of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. (Septem– February 9, 1878) was an American businessman and philanthropist from the Roosevelt family.
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