Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt  - Alice Hathaway Lee was Roosevelt's first wife. The two met during Teddy's junior year at Harvard and married two years later on his twenty-second birthday, October 27, 1880. The two lived happily in New York City for three years while Roosevelt served in the New York State Assembly. On February 12, 1884, Alice gave birth to their first and only child, Alice Roosevelt. Two days later, the elder Alice died unexpectedly from kidney failure. For the rest of his life, Theodore refused to speak about his first wife.