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Show I ETHEL ROOSEVELT ENGAGED TO WED L : 1 i- , ' - i t - ; l' ' ' , i I w ' " r n CoL and Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt have announced the engagement of . their second daughter, Miss Ethel Carow Roosevelt, to Dr. Richard Derby, Der-by, a' son of the late Dr. Richard H. Derby of this city. Few young women are more widely known that Miss Roosevelt, who holds the distinction of having spent more years in the White House than any young girl, before her, and who made her debut in society at a ball in the White House in December, 1908. ":' Dr. Derby is;a graduate cf Harvard, Har-vard, class 1903, and is a young and successful physician in New York city. , His .father was a well-known eye specialist,: a graduate of Harvard in. .1S67, whose death occurred July 4, 1907, at his summer place at Dark Harbor, Me. Miss Roosevelt's fiance has two brothers, James Lloyd ' Derby, with whom he resides at 969 Park avenue and Roger A. Derby, who is now at Jackson Springs, N. C. His sister is Mrs. Samuel A. Tucker of 155 East Sixty-first street. . He is at present spending a few days at Mrs. Archibald Rogers' place at Hyde Park, N. Y. Miss Roosevelt has been conspicuous in New York, society since leaving the White House, attending many of the .affairs given by the younger set, although she has spent most of her time with her parents at Sagamore Hill at Oyster Bay. In personal appearance she is attractive. t |