According to Sylvia Jukes Morris in Edith Kermit Roosevelt: Portrait of a First Lady, "Kermit was a skillful taxidermist, allegedly able to skin a mouse, while riding on a pad elephant."

Notes for Kermit Roosevelt (From Old Orchard Museum Label Copy):
"Kermit, the most sensitive of the children, first found companionship in his imagination. Though he and Ethel later ruled together over Archie, their earliest contacts with each other were disagreeable; they were constantly waging war on each other. Dreamy and detached as a child, Kermit developed into a great source of pride to his father."

Biography:

Kemit, like most of the other Roosevelt children attended the local public school for his earliest formal schooling and then followed his father and older brother Ted's footsteps to Groton, a prestigious private school and on to Harvard, completing the standard four year course in a mere 2 1/2 years.

The 3rd child and 2nd son, was a fierce defender of his father as a young boy, close companion as a young man and as his father neared the end of his life, Kermit became one of his father's "closest confidantes". At the age of nine, his father was preparing to go to war - Kermit knocked down and bloodied a boy who said Roosevelt would be killed.

Unfortunately, Kermit also shared his Uncle Elliot's love of women and alcohol, as well as debilitating bouts of depression. Sadly Kermit fell prey to the alcholism that tormented his Uncle Elliott, Theodore's brother as well as his mother Edith's father. Although A few drinks would improve his humor.

After college and travels with his father, Kermit ventured to Buenos Aires, working as Assistant Manager for the National City Bank. During World War I, Kermit fought with the British Army, joining as a Captain, though later, when stricken with malaria, he was transferred to the US Army. During his service in Spain, He married Belle Wyatt Willard June 10, 1914 in Chapel of the American Embassy, Madrid, Spain, daughter of Joseph Willard (American Ambassador to Spain) and Belle Wyatt. The marriage produced four children.

Kermit formed the successful Roosevelt Steamship Lines in the 1920s. Unfortunately, like his grandfather Carow before him, hard times during the depression of the 1930s led him to bourbon. Recommissioned by Winston Churchill he fought hard well in Scandinavia, thought the British were not victorious that day. "

Nevertheless, Kermit was a successful businessman, organizing the Roosevelt Steamship Company and the United States Lines.

Kermit was stationed in Alaska as a U.S. Infantry Major during World War II. In an effort to curb his alcoholism and philandering, Belle sought the help of her Uncle, President Franklin D. Roosevelt. FDR had Kermit posted to Fort Richardson, Alaska, where he "participated" in bombing runs against Japanese positions in the Aleutians and also established a territorial militia of Eskimos and Aleuts. Despite all efforts, his recurring bouts of depression prompted him to commit suicide in on June 4, 1943.

He is buried in Grave 72, Plot A, at Fort Richardson, under a white, generic military headstone.