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May 12, 2017 · An Artist, a Mobster, and a Mother’s Day Gift. By William A. Harris, Deputy Director, FDR Library. By most accounts, Sara Delano Roosevelt was a force to be reckoned with, and by all accounts, she doted on her only child, indulged him even, but most certainly loved him dearly. She had a definite way of making her presence known.
Mar 21, 2024 · Sara Delano Roosevelt. Sara Delano Roosevelt was the mother of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. She was extremely devoted to FDR, who was her only child. She holds the distinction of being the first mother to cast a presidential vote for her son. Roosevelt was born in 1824 into a wealthy family. While she lived overseas in Hong Kong for several ...
Apr 7, 2023 · The Roosevelt-Roosevelt Nuptials. While at Harvard, Roosevelt fell in love with his fifth cousin once removed, Eleanor Roosevelt. Sara did not approve when 21-year-old Franklin told her of their ...
Jul 14, 2023 · His source was his mother, Sara Delano Roosevelt, who had told him, during his boyhood years, about going to China on a clipper ship when she was a child. In the 1880s and 1890s when Franklin was growing up, his mother's parents, Warren and Catherine Delano, lived at their Algonac estate on the Hudson near Newburgh, New York.
NPx # 47-96:3858. Sara Delano Roosevelt (1855-1941) was born at Algonac, the estate of her wealthy Republican father, Warren. She was educated at home and in Hong Kong where her family lived from 1862 to 1865. On October 7, 1880 she married James Roosevelt, a widower twice her age. Her only child, Franklin, was born January 30, 1882.
Sara Delano Roosevelt (1854 - 1941) Sara Delano Roosevelt (SDR) was the daughter of Warren Delano, a wealthy merchant who made a fortune in the tea and opium trade in China, and after losing it, returned to make a second fortune. Sara grew up in Hong Kong from 1862-65 and in Algonac, the family estate on the Hudson River near Newburgh, New York.
May 12, 2017 by , posted in , By William A. Harris, Deputy Director, FDR Library. By most accounts, Sara Delano Roosevelt was a force to be reckoned with, and by all accounts, she doted on her only child, indulged him even, but most certainly loved him dearly. She had a definite way of making her presence known. FDR and his family made ….
