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Edith Roosevelt (Derby) Williams (June 17 1917 – June 8 2008) was a historian conservationist a granddaughter of the 26th President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt.Williams was born in New York to Dr. Richard Derby and Ethel Carow Roosevelt. Edith Roosevelt Derby was the second child of Dr. and Mrs. Derby and the eldest daughter. Former President Theodore Roosevelt was her grandfather. She was named for her grandmother Edith Roosevelt.