Here is some stunning footage of John Purroy Mitchell’s funeral at St. Patrick’s one hundred years ago today. Note Theodore Roosevelt and, I believe, Charles Evans Hughes, who ran against Wilson in 1916, walking behind the casket as the pallbearers take Mitchel into the cathedral.
Three days before his son,Quentin Roosevelt, was killed in France.
Yes, and of course Ted and Archie had already been wounded and were recovering at this time.