Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Theodore Roosevelt” in chapter 13 of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature:
.... Mark Twain's .
1885. Howells's .
1891. Lowell died.
1892. Whittier and Whitman died.
1893. World's Fair at Chicago.
1894. Holmes died.
1898. Spanish-American War.
1901. Theodore Roosevelt , President.
1902. Bret Harte died.
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