Theodore Roosevelt Files to Become U.S. Citizen

1905

ROOSEVELT TO BE CITIZEN

Omaha, Neb., Aug. 19. — In the district court here yesterday Theodore Roosevelt filed an application to be admitted to citizenship in the United States. Roosevelt says he is not related to the president. He was a subject of Emperor Franz Joseph, of Austria, served in the Austrian army for several years and came to this country ten years ago. He served with President Roosevelt's rough riders during the Spanish-American war and is a great admirer of the chief executive.

He is now living in the sand hills in the western part of Nebraska and desires to become a citizen of the United States in order that he may file on government lands in Cherry county.

—The Fort Wayne Sentinel, Fort Wayne, IN, Aug. 19, 1905, p. 4.