Superior Fishing; Or the Striped Bass, Trout, and Black Bass of the Northern States: Embracing Full Directions for Dressing Artificial Flies With the ... Visit to Lake Superior, Etc (Classic Reprint)
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Robert Barnwell Roosevelt was was a sportsman, author, politician who served as a United States Representative and as Minister to the Hague. He was an uncle of President Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.
Background
Robert Barnwell Roosevelt was born in New York City, New York, United States, the fourth son of Cornelius Van Schaack and Margaret (Barnhill) Roosevelt. Christened Robert Barnhill, he later adopted Barnwell as his middle name. His father was a wealthy banker and merchant, a descendant of Claes Martenszen van Rosenvelt who was an early settler of New Amsterdam. His mother was a member of a prominent family of Quaker merchants of Philadelphia.
Education
After receiving an excellent preparatory education he studied law and was admitted to the bar on attaining his majority.
Career
During most of his life he resided on East Twentieth St. , next door to his brother Theodore, the father of President Theodore Roosevelt. He quickly attained a prominent position at the bar, at the same time giving much attention to writing and to public affairs. During his more than twenty years of practice he was counsel in an unusual number of cases in which the public interest was involved. At the beginning of the Civil War he identified himself with the group of Democrats who strongly supported the Union cause, and was a founder of the Loyal National League and of the Union League Club, both important propagandist organizations. In 1864 he became secretary of the Citizens' Association and represented it in proceedings before courts and legislative committees. One of his prosecutions resulted in abolishing the offices of the incompetent health wardens and in establishing a model board of health. He was also instrumental in creating a paid fire department. He later became associated with Charles G. Halpine in the editorship of the New York Citizen, the official organ of the association, and by his editorials helped to arouse the city against the "Tweed ring. " He was one of the organizers of the famous Committee of Seventy which overthrew the ring, assuming the special task of leading the opposition among independent Democrats. In 1872 he had practically the sole responsibility for managing the successful mayoralty campaign of the reform ticket. He was elected to the Forty-second Congress (1871 - 73) and signalized his brief service by exposing a corrupt ring operating in the District of Columbia. Roosevelt's early writings dealt with hunting, fishing and outdoor life - fields that were then almost wholly unexploited. His first three books, Game Fish of the Northern States of America, and British Provinces (1862), Superior Fishing (1865), and The Game Birds of the Coasts and Lakes of the Northern States of America (1866), had an important influence in creating the cult of the hunter-naturalist. Foreseeing the eventual destruction of all game and fish unless measures for conservation were undertaken, he assiduously promoted the work of state and international sportsmen's associations. In 1867 he secured from the New York legislature the passage of a law, widely copied in other states, creating the state fishery commission. As chairman or member of that body for twenty years he supervised the introduction and perfecting of artificial methods of propagating fish and the protection of streams against indiscriminate dumping of sewage and mill wastes. His later writings were: Five Acres Too Much (1869), and Progressive Petticoats (1874), both of which were satires; Love and Luck (1886), a novel; Fish Hatching, Fish Catching (joint author with Seth Green, 1879), Florida and the Game Water-Birds of the Atlantic Coast and the Lakes of the United States (1884); and a memorial edition (1869) of the Poetical Works of Charles G. Halpine (Miles O'Reilly). In 1872 Roosevelt received a large inheritance and retired from the bar to become a director of several railroad and industrial companies and to supervise widely dispersed investments. He was a commissioner of the Brooklyn bridge, 1879-81; a member of the Board of Aldermen, 1882, devoting his attention chiefly to securing the passage of a pure-food ordinance; minister to the Netherlands, 1888-89; chairman of a relief committee during the Spanish-American War; and a member of committees formed to aid the Boers.
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Politics
During his later years he was the leader of various Democratic reform associations which carried on an unequal contest with Tammany Hall. He wanted to be mayor of New York, but his uncompromising zeal for reform deprived him of the support of Tammany and his thoroughgoing support of Democratic policies prevented his endorsement by the Republicans. In the presidency of his nephew, Theodore Roosevelt, whose party allegiance he disapproved, he lived to see the frequent expression of the principles of conservation and of political reform which seem to have been the dominant interests of his life
Personality
In his early youth Roosevelt showed a diversity of interests that characterized him throughout his life. He was fond of hunting, yachting, and other forms of outdoor sport, and showed a precocious interest in politics and in English composition.
Connections
In 1850 he married Elizabeth Ellis of New York who bore him two sons and two daughters. After the death of his wife in 1887 he married Mrs. Marion T. (O'Shea) Fortescue, on August 18, 1888.