Roosevelt family explained

Roosevelt
Coat Of Arms:Coat of Arms of Franklin Roosevelt.svg
Coat Of Arms Size:100px
Coat Of Arms Caption:Coat of arms of President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Region:New York and New England
Early Forms:Rosevelt, van Rosenvelt, van Rosevelt
Type:Political family
Origin:Dutch American Community, English American Community — Netherlands, United Kingdom (England), United States (New York)
Otherfamilies:Delano 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:Sagamore Hill (Oyster Bay, New York)
Springwood (Hyde Park, New York)
Meaning:Dutch for "Rose field"

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.

History

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
Year Adopted:17th century
Crest:Upon a torse argent and gules, Three ostrich plumes each per pale gules and argent.
Shield:Argent upon a grassy mound a rose bush proper bearing three roses Gules barbed and seeded proper..[3]
Motto:Qui plantavit curabit ("He who planted [us] will care [for us]")
Other Elements:The mantling, gules doubled argent.
Notes:The Roosevelt arms feature a rose bush in reference to the name: "Roosevelt", which is Dutch for "rose field", 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 green 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.

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, was white with a rosebush with three rose flowers growing upon a grassy mound, the crest being 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.

Members

Oyster Bay Roosevelts

Hyde Park Roosevelts

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

Further reading

See also: Bibliography of Eleanor Roosevelt, Bibliography of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Bibliography of Theodore Roosevelt.

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Moore . Frazier . PBS' 'The Roosevelts' portrays an epic threesome . September 10, 2014 . . September 10, 2014 .
  2. Web site: Lambert Jochemse van Valckenburch of New Amsterdam. VanValkenburg.org. February 28, 2008. October 7, 2007. https://web.archive.org/web/20071007054242/http://www.vanvalkenburg.org/lambert-manhattan.html. dead.
  3. Web site: Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 26th and 32nd Presidents of the United States. American Heraldry Society. October 28, 2009. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20081230095848/http://americanheraldry.org/pages/index.php?n=President.Roosevelt. December 30, 2008.
  4. Book: Whittelsey, Charles. The Roosevelt Genealogy, 1649–1902. 1902. Hartford, Conn., Press of J. B. Burr & co..
  5. Book: The New York civil list. editions:LCCN93004831.. Weed, Parsons & Co.. Albany, NY. 1858. 300. Hough, Franklin B. . November 27, 2009.
  6. Web site: The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Roosevelt.
  7. Book: Genealogical and Biographical Notes: Haring-Herring, Clark, Denton, White, Griggs, Judd, and Related Families. 2005. Peter Haring Judd. 978-0-88082-190-2.
  8. Web site: Historic Pelham: Elbert Roosevelt, An Early Settler of the Manor of Pelham, and Other Members of His Family. historicpelham.blogspot.com. May 2, 2016.
  9. Book: Theodore Roosevelt Association. Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal. 1990. The Association.
  10. Book: Frances M. Smith. Colonial Families of America. 258. 1909. F. Allaben genealogical Company.
  11. News: Emily Allen, Samuel Hornblower. February 26, 2018. The New York Times. June 13, 2009.
  12. News: Berger. Joseph. March 16, 2005. Roosevelts and the Quirks of Destiny. The New York Times.
  13. News: Republican Born Roosevelt Digs Deep for Texas Oil Found With CO2. April 2, 2013. Bloomberg Markets Magazine. April 1, 2013. John Lippert. Jim Efstathiou Jr.. Mike Lee.
  14. Web site: Appleton LeSure Clark 1865-1930 - Ancestry®.
  15. News: Wallack. Todd. Which bank is the oldest? Accounts vary - The Boston Globe. Boston Globe. 20 December 2011 . subscription.
  16. Book: Chemical Bank and Trust Company . 1913 . History of the Chemical Bank, 1823-1913 . Garden City, New York . The Country Life Press . 109 .
  17. News: Mcquiston. John T.. Franklin Roosevelt Jr., 74, Ex-Congressman, Dies. June 20, 2023 . The New York Times. August 18, 1988 . subscription.
  18. Web site: Tweed Roosevelt . 2023-06-19 . WHHA (en-US) . en.

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