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Mercantile Family Of Dutch: ROOSEVELT, Theodore, 26th president of the United States: b. New York, N.Y., Oct. 27, 1858; d. Oyster Bay, N.Y., Jan. 6, 1919. His Manhattan birthplace, at 28 East 20th Street, is now a museum and the headquarters of the Theodore Roosevelt Association.
Author, naturalist, explorer, soldier, and statesman, Theodore Roosevelt came from a well-to-do mercantile family of Dutch extraction.
Some Nuggets of Fact The word "Dutch" has been put to strange! uses. "Dutch Treat" is a phrase unknown in Holland, where an each-pays- j his-own meal or other affair is called an American Treat! "Pennsylvania] Dutchmen" are descended not from Hollanders but from Germans (and! Swiss). Such terms as "Dutch courage" and "Dutch uncle," some of them ] derisory in sense, seem to date from 17th-century frictions between Duti and English mariners.
Royal note: Queen Juliana and her family now live mainly Soestdijk, near Hilversum; Princess Wilhelmina, as the former queen i officially called, lives in Het Loo Palace in Apeldoorn.
ROOSEVELT, Franklin Delano, 32d president of the United States: b. Hyde Park, N.Y., Jan. 30, 1882; d. Warm Springs, Ga., April 12, 1945. On the side of his father, James Roosevelt, his family background can be traced to a Dutch ancestor, Claes Martenszen Van Rosen-velt, who settled in New Amsterdam around 1649; while his maternal lineage dates back to a certain Philippe de la Noye, of French-Dutch blood, who landed in Plymouth Colony in 1621.
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