By the time of the divorce filing, the couple had lived separately for two years. During that time, the gifted Ruth Bryan Leavitt was filing stories as a journalist, including one story entitled In Damascus with Ruth Bryan Leavitt which appeared in the Illustrated Sunday Magazine of the Daily Picayune, New Orleans, La., on October 11, 1908.[1] She also took to the campaign trail during her father's third Presidential campaign in 1908 to act as his traveling secretary.[2] During the time of the two-year separation, in 1908, The New York Times reported on a bizarre break-in at the couple's former joint home in Denver, where the home was ransacked and its contents destroyed. [3]
The wedding to Capt. Rohde, a gentleman-in-waiting to the Danish king, ended Ruth Bryan Owen's ambassadorial career, as it automatically made her a Danish citizen, and thus unable to serve as an American diplomat. Nevertheless, she campaigned for her friend Franklin Delano Roosevelt in his Presidential campaign of 1936.[4]
By the time of the divorce filing, the couple had lived separately for two years. During that time, the gifted Ruth Bryan Leavitt was filing stories as a journalist, including one story entitled In Damascus with Ruth Bryan Leavitt which appeared in the Illustrated Sunday Magazine of the Daily Picayune, New Orleans, La., on October 11, 1908.[1] She also took to the campaign trail during her father's third Presidential campaign in 1908 to act as his traveling secretary.[2] During the time of the two-year separation, in 1908, The New York Times reported on a bizarre break-in at the couple's former joint home in Denver, where the home was ransacked and its contents destroyed. [3]
