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Roosevelt (Family)

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The Roosevelt family is an American business and political family from New York whose members have included two United States Presidents, a First Lady, and various merchants, politicians, inventors, clergymen, artists, and socialites. Progeny of a mid-17th century Dutch immigrant to New Amsterdam, many members of the family became locally prominent in New York City business and politics and intermarried with prominent colonial families. Two distantly related branches of the family from Oyster Ba...

Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820

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British-born American architect best known for his design of the United States Capitol and other public buildings in the United States. -- Joseph Donath was a Philadelphia merchant who is best remembered for supplying glass to Thomas Jefferson. From the description of [Letter] 1805 Sep. 19, Ironhill, Del. [to] Jos. Donath & Co. / B. Henry Latrobe. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 245178736 British-born architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe, most famous for designing the ...

Roosevelt, Nicholas Latrobe, 1847-1892

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Cormack, G. A.

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Latrobe family

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Nicholas Jacobus Roosevelt was born in New York City in 1767, the son of Jacobus Roosevelt and Annatje Bogaert. He lived in New York City and in Skaneateles, New York, where he was an inventor and manufacturer. In 1811, he made the first steamboat voyage along the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. On November 15, 1808, he married Lydia Latrobe, the daughter of John Henry Latrobe, and they had nine children: Henry Latrobe, Samuel, Rosetta Mark, Mary Louise, Lydia Eliza, Julia Adeline, Ell...

Roosevelt, Lydia Latrobe.

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Roosevelt, Nicholas J., 1767-1854

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Roosevelt, Henry L.

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Henry Latrobe Roosevelt (1879-1936) was a great-grandson of Nicholas J. Roosevelt and Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Navy (1933-1936). From the description of Nicholas J. Roosevelt and his pioneer steamboat voyage on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers from Pittsburgh to New Orleans in 1811 / by Henry Latrobe Roosevelt, circa 1930-1936. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 456574805 ...

Latrobe, John H. B. (John Hazlehurst Boneval), 1803-1891

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John H. B. Latrobe was an author, lawyer, artist and inventor. He was born in Philadelphia on May 4, 1803, and was educated in Washington and Baltimore. He attended West Point, moved to New Jersey and was involved with the expansion of the railroads, specifically the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. He became a central figure in the movement to colonize Liberia with freed slaves from the United States. He became a well-known writer and cultural figure, and founder of the Maryland Historical Societ...