Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1914 — KERMIT ROOSEVELT TO WED [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

KERMIT ROOSEVELT TO WED

Daughterd of U. S. Ambassador to Be ~ Bride of Ex-President’s Seeond Bon. 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 Roosecelt, Bon 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 end* ing 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. Kermit Roosevelt, second son of the former president, Is twenty-four. Since the summer of 1912 he has been In

Brasil and Is now an officer of the Anglo-Brazllian Iron company In San Paulo. He is tall and well set, and has won honors as an athlete. He Interrupted his studies at Harvard in 1909 to accompany the colonel on the latter’s African hunt as photographer to the expedition. In the fall of 1911' he resumed his studies at Harvard and was graduated In Jnne, 1912.

Miss Belle Willard.

Kermit Roosevelt.