Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1914 — KERMIT ROOSEVELT TO WED [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

KERMIT ROOSEVELT TO WED

Daughterd of U. 8. Ambassador to Be Bride of Ex-President’a Second Son. Richmond, Va, —Letters received here from Madrid by friends of Ambassador Willard reported the, engagement of the ambassador’s daughter, Miss Belle Willard, to Kermit Rooaecelt, son of Col. Theodore Roosevelt. The wedding, it Is said, will take place in the spring, probably here

in Richmond, the home of the Willards. Miss Willard, Kermit Roosevelt and his sister, now Mrs. Richard Derby, were guests of the Willards on a long motor trip through Virginia and ending at Hot Springs a little over a year ago. Miss Willard was one of the guests last winter at the wedding in New York of Miss Ethel Roosevelt to Mr. Derby. Hermit Roosevelt, second son of the former president, is twenty-four. Since the summer of 1912 he has been in

Brazil and Is now an officer of the Anglo-Brazillan Iron company In San Paulo. He Is tall and well set, and has won honors as an athlete. He interrupted hla studies at Harvard in 19t)9 to accompany the colonel on the latter’s African hunt aa photographer to the expedition. In the fall of 1911 he resumed his studies at Harvard and waa graduated In Jnne, 1912. -W

Miss Belle Willard.

Kermit Roosevelt.