Isaac Roosevelt (businessman)
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September 29, 1790
Isaac Roosevelt | |
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| Born | Isaac Daniel Roosevelt September 29, 1790 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Died | December 24, 1863 (aged 73) Hyde Park, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Doctor, farmer |
| Spouse |
Mary Rebecca Aspinwall
(m. 1825) |
| Children | James Roosevelt I John Aspinwall Roosevelt |
| Parent(s) | James Roosevelt Maria Eliza Walton |
| Relatives | See Roosevelt family |
Isaac Daniel Roosevelt (September 29, 1790 – December 24, 1863) was an American doctor and farmer. He was the paternal grandfather of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Roosevelt was born on September 29, 1790, in New York City,[1] he was the oldest surviving son of businessman and politician James Roosevelt (1760–1847) and Maria Eliza Walton (1769–1810),[2] the daughter of Admiral Gerard Walton (d. 1821) and a descendant of Wilhelmus Beekman, who was the treasurer of the Dutch West India Company, Mayor of New York City,[3][4] Governor of Delaware from 1653 to 1664, and Governor of Pennsylvania from 1658 to 1663.[5][6]
His paternal grandparents were merchant and politician Isaac Roosevelt (1726–1794), a New York State Assemblyman and member of the New York State Constitutional Convention, and Cornelia Hoffman. He was the 3x-great-grandson of the first Roosevelt in America, Claes Maartenszen Van Rosenvelt (d. 1659).[7]
Career
Roosevelt attended Princeton University before graduating in 1808. He then attended the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, receiving the degree of M.D. in 1812.[8][9] He continued his medical studies until 1820 with Dr. David Hosack.[1] Despite his extensive training, Roosevelt never practiced medicine,[7] reportedly due to his inability to "bear the sight of human suffering."[10]
Instead, Roosevelt's passions were with farming and when his father purchased Mount Hope, a large tract of land in Hyde Park, New York, along the Hudson River, Roosevelt left New York City to live there permanently.[1] In 1832, near his father's home, Roosevelt built a house at the center of his estate called Rosedale. Today it is known as the Isaac Roosevelt House and still stands on Riverview Circle in Hyde Park. The home was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993, along with a cottage and boathouse on the Hudson River nearby.[11]
