Biography
Born Isaac Daniel Roosevelt in Hyde Park, New York to James Roosevelt (1760–1847) and Catherine Welles (1762–1829). He took his first name from his grandfather Isaac Roosevelt (1726–1794) who started the Bank of New York in 1790. In 1825 he married Mary Rebecca Aspinwall, the daughter of John Aspinwall and Susan Howland. They had two children, James Roosevelt and John Aspinwall Roosevelt. James was FDR's father and John Aspinwall was the father of Ellen Roosevelt, a tennis player.
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