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Robert Barnwell Roosevelt (1829–1906)
Roosevelt, Robert Barnwell. An American lawyer and miscellaneous writer; born in New York City, Aug. 7, 1829; died in 1906. He was an enthusiastic sportsman and published: ‘The Game Fish of North America’ (1860); ‘The Game Birds of the North’ (1866); ‘Superior Fishing’ (1866); ‘Florida and the Game Water Birds’ (1868); ‘Five Acres Too Much’ (1869), a satire provoked by Edmund Morris’s ‘Ten Acres Enough’; and ‘Progressive Petticoats,’ a humorous satire on female physicians.