Roosevelt family

The Roosevelt family is an American political family from New York whose members have included two United States presidents, a First Lady,[1] and various merchants, bankers, politicians, inventors, clergymen, artists, and socialites. The progeny of a mid-17th century Dutch immigrant to New Amsterdam, many members of the family became nationally prominent in New York State and City politics and business and intermarried with prominent colonial families. Two distantly related branches of the family from Oyster Bay and Hyde Park, New York, rose to global political prominence with the presidencies of Theodore Roosevelt (1901–1909) and his fifth cousin Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933–1945), whose wife, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, was Theodore's niece. The Roosevelt family is one of four families to have produced two presidents of the United States by the same surname; the others were the Adams, Bush, and Harrison families.

Roosevelt
Political family
Current regionNew York and New England
Earlier spellingsRosevelt, van Rosenvelt, van Rosevelt
EtymologyDutch for "Rose field"
Place of originDutch American Community, English American CommunityNetherlands, United Kingdom (England), United States (New York)
Connected familiesDelano family
Du Pont family
Astor family
Latrobe family
Livingston family
Longworth family
Hoffman family
Schuyler family
Goodyear family
Lowell family
de Peyster family
Whitney family
Brooke Family
Estate(s)Sagamore Hill (Oyster Bay, New York)
Springwood (Hyde Park, New York)

History

The only known photo of Theodore Roosevelt (left) with Franklin D. Roosevelt (right), taken in 1915.

Claes Maartenszen van Rosenvelt (c. 1626–1659), the immigrant ancestor of the Roosevelt family, arrived in New Amsterdam (present-day New York City) sometime between 1638 and 1649. About the year 1652, he bought a farm from Lambert van Valckenburgh, comprising 24 morgens (i.e., 20.44 ha or 50.51 acres) in what is now Midtown Manhattan, including the present site of the Empire State Building.[2] The property included approximately what is now the area between Lexington Avenue and Fifth Avenue bounded by 29th St. and 35th St.

Claes van Rosenvelt's son Nicholas was the first to use the spelling Roosevelt and the first to hold political office, as an alderman. His sons Johannes and Jacobus were, respectively, the progenitors of the Oyster Bay and Hyde Park branches of the family. By the late 19th century, the Hyde Park Roosevelts were generally associated with the Democratic Party and the Oyster Bay Roosevelts with the Republicans. President Theodore Roosevelt, an Oyster Bay Roosevelt, was the uncle of Eleanor Roosevelt, later wife of Franklin Roosevelt. Despite political differences that caused family members to actively campaign against each other, the two branches generally remained friendly.

Coats of arms

Arms of the Roosevelt family
Adopted17th century
CrestUpon a torse argent and gules, Three ostrich plumes each per pale gules and argent.[3]
ShieldArgent upon a grassy mound a rose bush proper bearing three roses Gules barbed and seeded proper..[3]
MottoQui plantavit curabit ("He who planted [us] will care [for us]")
Other elementsThe mantling, gules doubled argent.[3]
The Roosevelt arms feature a rose bush in reference to the name: "Roosevelt", which is Dutch for "rose field",[4] making these an example of canting arms.

In heraldry, canting arms are a visual or pictorial depiction of a surname, and were and still are a popular practice. It would be common to find roses, then, in the arms of many Roosevelt families, even unrelated ones (the name Rosenvelt means "rose field"). Also, grassy mounds or fields of green would be a familiar attribute.

The Van Roosevelts of Oud-Vossemeer in Zeeland have a coat of arms that is divided horizontally, the top portion with a white chevron between three white roses, while the bottom half is gold with a red lion rampant. A traditional blazon suggested would be, Per fess vert a chevron between three roses argent and Or a lion rampant gules.[3]

The coat of arms of the namesakes of the Dutch immigrant Claes van Rosenvelt, ancestor of the American political family that included Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt, were white with a rosebush with three rose flowers growing upon a grassy mound, and whose crest was of three ostrich feathers divided into red and white halves each. In heraldic terms this would be described as, Argent upon a grassy mound a rose bush proper bearing three roses gules barbed and seeded all proper, with a crest upon a torse argent and gules of Three ostrich plumes each per pale gules and argent. Franklin Roosevelt altered his arms to omit the rosebush and use in its place three crossed roses on their stems, changing the blazon of his shield to Three roses one in pale and two in saltire gules barbed seeded slipped and left proper.[3]

Members

Roosevelt family members
  • Claes Martenszen van Rosenvelt (1623–1660), m. Jannetje Samuels Thomas (1625–1660)[5]
    • Elsie Roosevelt (bap. 1652–1703), m. Hendrick Meyer, New York City assistant alderman[5]:4–5
    • Anna Margaret Roosevelt (1654–1706), m. Heyman A. Roosa (1643–1708)
    • Nicholas Roosevelt (1658–1742), m. Heyltje Jans Kunst (1664–1730)
      • Nicholas Roosevelt (b. 1687), goldsmith
      • Johannes Roosevelt (1689–1750)
        • Margreta Roosevelt (bap. 1709), m. William de Peyster, son of Mayor of New York City Johannes de Peyster
        • Nicholas Roosevelt (b. 1717), merchant
          • Nicholas Roosevelt (bap. 1740), New York City alderman
        • Cornelius Roosevelt (b. 1731), chocolate maker,[8] New York City alderman
          • Cornelius C. Roosevelt (bap. 1755), merchant, New York City alderman, member of the New York State Assembly, m. Alida Fargie, granddaughter of Albany and New York City mayor Edward Holland
          • Maria Roosevelt (1760–1821), m. John Duffie
            • Matilda Duffie, m. Gerard De Peyster, New York City alderman
            • Cornelius Roosevelt Duffie (1789–1827), Episcopal priest, founder and rector of Saint Thomas Church, m. Helena Bleecker, granddaughter of Anthony Lispenard Bleecker
              • Cornelius Roosevelt Duffie (1821–1900), first chaplain of Columbia College, founder and first rector of the Church of St. John the Baptist
          • Elbert Roosevelt (1767–1857), New York City merchant, early settler of Pelham Manor, New York,[9] m. Jane Curtenius, daughter of merchant and politician Peter T. Curtenius
            • Clinton Roosevelt (1804–1898), politician and inventor
        • Jacobus Roosevelt (1724–1777)
          • Johannes Roosevelt (bap. 1751), m. Mary Schuyler of the Schuyler, Van Rensselaer, and Van Cortlandt families.
            • Mary Roosevelt (1789–1837), m. William Sheriff de Peyster, son of Pierre Guillaume de Peyster[10] (himself a brother of Arent de Peyster)
          • Nicholas Roosevelt (1767–1854), inventor, m. Lydia Latrobe, daughter of architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe
            • Samuel Roosevelt (1813–1878)
              • Nicholas Latrobe Roosevelt (1847–1892)
                • Henry Latrobe Roosevelt (1879–1936), Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Navy, m. Eleanor Morrow, daughter of California judge and U.S. Representative William W. Morrow
                  • Eleanor Katherine Roosevelt (1915–1995), m. Reverdy Wadsworth, son of U.S. Senator and Representative James W. Wadsworth Jr.
              • Samuel Montgomery Roosevelt (1858–1920), artist
          • James Jacobus Roosevelt (1759–1840), m. Maria Van Schaack (a descendant of the Schuyler family).
            • Cornelius Van Schaack Roosevelt Sr. (1794–1871), progenitor of the Oyster Bay Roosevelts (see below)
            • James John Roosevelt (1795–1875), politician, businessman and jurist, m. Cornelia Van Ness, daughter of Vermont politician Cornelius P. Van Ness
              • Marcia Ouseley Roosevelt (b. 1847), m. Edward Brooks Scovel, opera singer
            • Catherine Roosevelt (1803–1844), m. Michael Bourke
              • Margaret Jones Bourke, m. Thomas Edward Kenny, Canadian merchant, banker, and politician
            • William Henry Roosevelt (1806–1869), politician, land speculator (Illinois)
      • James Jacobus Roosevelt (1692–1776), m. Catharina Hardenbroek

Oyster Bay Roosevelts

Oyster Bay Roosevelts
Pres. Theodore Roosevelt and Mrs. Edith Roosevelt seated on lawn, surrounded by their family; 1903. From left to right: Quentin, Theodore Jr., Theodore III, Archie, Alice, Kermit, Edith, and Ethel.
  • Cornelius Van Schaack Roosevelt Sr. (1794–1871), co-founder of Chemical Bank
    • Silas Weir Roosevelt (1823–1870)
      • Cornelius Roosevelt (1847–1902), m. Anais Julia Carmencita Piorkque (1848–1941), m. Anastacia Anderpoll (1879–1962)
        • Andre Roosevelt (1879–1962), Olympic gold medalist and film director, m. Adelheid Lange (1879–1962), sculptor
        • Hilda Roosevelt (1881–1965), Parisian opera singer
      • Hilborne Roosevelt, (1849–1886), pioneering organ builder, m. Katherine Shippen
      • James West Roosevelt, (1858–1896), physician
        • Nicholas Roosevelt (1893–1982), American diplomat and journalist
    • James Alfred Roosevelt (1825–1898), banker
      • Alfred Roosevelt (1856–1891), banker, m. Katherine Lowell, daughter of Massachusetts businessman and industrialist Augustus Lowell
        • Elfrida Roosevelt, m. Sir Orme Bigland Clarke, 4th Baronet, military officer
          • Sir Humphrey Clarke, 5th Baronet (1906–1973)
            • Sir Toby Clarke, 6th Baronet (1939–2019), British businessman
      • William Emlen Roosevelt (1857–1930), banker and telegraph executive
        • George Emlen Roosevelt (1887–1963), banker and philanthropist
          • Julian Roosevelt (1924–1986), Olympic gold medalist and IOC member
        • Philip James Roosevelt Sr. (1892–1941), U.S. Army captain during World War I and banker, m. his second cousin Jean S. Roosevelt (see below)
    • Cornelius Van Schaack Roosevelt Jr.
    • Robert Barnwell Roosevelt (1829–1906), conservationist, m. 1st Elizabeth Ellis, m. 2nd Minnie O'Shea
      • John Ellis Roosevelt (1853–1939), m. Nannie Vance, daughter of New York City politician Samuel B. H. Vance
        • Jean Schermerhorn Roosevelt, m. her second cousin Philip James Roosevelt Sr. (see above)
      • Granville Roland Fortescue (1875–1952), soldier and war correspondent, m. Grace Hubbard Bell, niece of Alexander Graham Bell
        • Thalia Massie (1911–1963), whose rape was the subject of the 1932 Massie Trial
        • Helene Whitney (1914–1990) (born Kenyon Fortescue), 1930s and 1940s film actress, m. Julian Louis Reynolds, son of Richard S. Reynolds Sr. and heir to the Reynolds tobacco and aluminum fortunes
    • Theodore Roosevelt Sr. (1831–1878), m. Martha "Mittie" Bulloch

Hyde Park Roosevelts


Hyde Park Roosevelts
  • Isaac Daniel Roosevelt (1790–1863) m. Mary Rebecca Aspinwall
    • James Roosevelt (1828–1900), 1st m. Rebecca Howland, 2nd m. Sara Ann Delano
      • James Roosevelt "Rosey" Roosevelt (1854–1927) m. Helen Schermerhorn Astor
        • Helen Rebecca Roosevelt (1881–1962), m. Theodore Douglas Robinson (see above)
        • James Roosevelt "Tadd" Roosevelt Jr. (1879–1958)
      • Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882–1945), m. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, 12th Assistant Secretary of the Navy, 44th Governor of New York and 32nd President of the United States
        • Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (1906–1975), m. 1st Curtis Bean Dall, m. 2nd Clarence John Boettiger, m. 3rd Dr. James Addison Halsted
          • Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Dall (b. 1927) m. Van H. Seagraves 1948
            • Nicholas Delano Seagraves (b. 1949)
            • David Delano Seagraves (b. 1952)
            • Anna Eleanor Seagraves (b. 1955)
          • Curtis Roosevelt Dall (1930–2016)
          • John Roosevelt Boettiger (b. 1939), m. Leigh McCullough
        • James Roosevelt II (1907–1991), m. 1st Betsy Cushing, m. 2nd Romelle Schneider, m. 3rd Irene Owens, m. 4th Mary Winskill
          • Sara Delano Roosevelt, (1932–2021), m. pianist Anthony di Bonaventura
          • Kate Roosevelt (1936–2002), m. journalist and politician William Haddad
          • James Roosevelt III (b. 1945), attorney and Democratic Party official, m. Ann Martha Conlon
            • Kathleen Ann Roosevelt (b. 1978), m. Jeffrey Walker
            • Theresa Marie Roosevelt (b. 1982), m. Robert O'Loughlin
            • Maura Amy Roosevelt (b. 1984), m. Joshua Fisher
          • Michael Anthony Roosevelt (b. 1946)
          • Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (b. 1948)
          • Hall Delano Roosevelt (b. 1959), served on the Long Beach, California City Council in the 1990s[13]
          • Rebecca Mary Roosevelt (b. 1971)
        • Franklin Roosevelt (1908–1909), died in infancy
        • Elliott Roosevelt Sr. (1910–1990), United States Army Air Forces officer and author, m. 1st Emily Browning Donner, daughter of businessman William Donner, m. 2nd Ruth Josephine Googins, m. 3rd Faye Margaret Emerson, m. 4th Minnewa Bell, m. 5th Patricia Peabody
          • William Donner Roosevelt (1932–2003), investment banker and philanthropist
          • Ruth Chandler Roosevelt (1934–2018)
          • Elliott Roosevelt Jr. (b. 1936), Texas oilman[14]
          • David Boynton Roosevelt (b. 1942)
          • Livingston Delano Roosevelt (b. 1962, died as an infant)
        • Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., lawyer, politician, and businessman (1914–1988), m. 1st Ethel du Pont, m. 2nd Suzanne Perrin, m. 3rd Felicia Schiff Warburg Sarnoff, m. 4th Patricia Luisa Oakes, m. 5th Linda McKay Stevenson Weicker
          • Franklin Delano Roosevelt III (b. 1938), economist, m. Grace R. Goodyear, great-granddaughter of businessman Charles W. Goodyear and granddaughter of Presbyterian minister Norman Thomas
            • Phoebe Louisa Roosevelt (b. 1965)
            • Nicholas Martin Roosevelt (b. 1966) (twin)
            • Amelia Roosevelt (b. 1966) (twin), concert violinist
          • Christopher du Pont Roosevelt (b. 1941) m. Rosalind Havemeyer, a great-granddaughter of sugar refiner Henry Osborne Havemeyer
          • John A. Roosevelt
          • Nancy Roosevelt Ireland
          • Laura Delano Roosevelt, m. Charles Henry Silberstein
        • John Aspinwall Roosevelt II (1916–1981), m. Anne Lindsay Clark
          • Haven Clark Roosevelt (b. 1940)
          • Anne Sturgis Roosevelt (b. 1942)
          • Sara Delano Roosevelt (1946–1960); killed in a horseback-riding accident
          • Joan Lindsay Roosevelt (1952–1997)
    • John Aspinwall Roosevelt (1840–1909), m. Ellen Murray Crosby

Businesses

The following is a list of companies in which the Roosevelt family have held a controlling or otherwise significant interest.

Charities, museums & nonprofit organizations

See also

References

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