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John Adams was President of the U. S. when Jacobus Roosevelt opened his Manhattan hardware store in 1797. The hardware business flourished despite the yellow fever that plagued the city the following year and Jacobus Roosevelt took his son Cornelius into partnership. In the course of business Roosevelt & Son found it expedient to discount its customers' notes. Before long it began discounting notes of other hardware merchants. By 1824 the prospering Roosevelts were able to take a hand in founding the Chemical Bank (now Manhattan's potent Chemical Bank & Trust Co.). By 1845 a biographer, rating the Roosevelt...
...Jacobus Roosevelt would not have been surprised that his great-grandson Theodore should become 26th President of the U. S. Nor would he have been greatly startled when his second cousin three times removed became the 32nd President of the U. S. But what would have given him a severe shock would have been the signing by any Roosevelt in the White House of a law which would split his venerable firm three ways...
George Emlen Roosevelt and his brother Philip James, fifth in the direct line of Founder Jacobus, and another partner "will continue the business of managing investments and other property, including the collection of income and the reinvestment of principal, and of acting as custodians of securities." They will perpetuate the old firm's name...
...President and the new Assistant Secretary of the Navy are fifth cousins. Nicholas Roosevelt (1658-1742) was their common great-great-great-great-grandfather. Henry Roosevelt is a third cousin of Theodore Roosevelt Sr., their common great-great-grandfather having been Jacobus Roosevelt, grandson of Nicholas. Though closer kin to the Republican wing of the family, Assistant Secretary Roosevelt is a Democrat, has been acquainted with the President for years. After three years at the U. S. Naval Academy, he resigned to take a commission in the Marine Corps, saw service in the Philippines, Panama, Cuba, Haiti. During...
...Whatever happens." said Dr. Trip, "the Kingdom of the Netherlands will remain on the gold standard." Like most prominent Dutchmen with long names, President Leonardus Jacobus Anthonius Trip signs only his last, "Trip," to his letters...