James John Roosevelt (1795 - 1875)

Born 14 Dec 1795 in New York, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Cornelia Marcia (Van Ness) Roosevelt — married 30 May 1831 in Paris, France

Descendants

Died 5 Apr 1875 at age 79 in New York, United States

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Biography

James I – the Roman numeral was used to distinguish him from others of the same name – was born on December 14, 1795 in New York City to James Jacobus Roosevelt and Maria Van Schaak and baptized at the Dutch Reformed Church. He was a great-grandson of Johannes Roosevelt (the founder of the Oyster Bay branch of the Roosevelt family).

Roosevelt graduated from Columbia College in 1815 and was admitted to the bar in 1818, becoming a partner of Peter Jay (son of John Jay), with a practice in New York City. An active Democrat, he campaigned for Andrew Jackson for president in 1828. He was elected alderman in 1828 and 1830, was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1835 and 1840, and served in the United States Congress from 1841 to 1843 (he declined to seek reelection). As a jurist, he became a justice of the New York Supreme Court in 1851, and during one term was ex officio judge of the State Court of Appeals. From 1860 to 1861, he was United States District Attorney for Southern New York. He studied foreign law in the courts of England, the Netherlands, and France. In business, Roosevelt followed in the tradition of his father as a hardware merchant. He engaged in farming after retiring. He was the first president of Roosevelt Hospital, which was founded by his cousin James H. Roosevelt.

On May 30, 1831 in Paris, Roosevelt married Cornelia Van Ness, a daughter of Cornelius P. Van Ness and Rhoda Savage. Cornelia was celebrated for her beauty and grace. General Gilbert du Motier was among the guests. James and Cornelia had eleven children, all but three of whom died in childhood or early adulthood.

1. Mary [1832-1841]
2. Cornelia [1833-1838]
3. James Nicholas [1836-1856]
4. John Van Ness [1838-1841]
5. William Ousley [1839-1841]
6. Augustus Jay [1841-1842]
7. Van Ness [1843-1872]
8. Charles Yates [1846- ? ] married Carrie Louise Talbot
9. Marcia O. [1847-1877] married Edward Brooks Scovel
10. Frederick [1850 - ? ] married Mary Louncy, resided Skaneateles, NY
11. Matilda [1851 - 1854]

Their son Charles Yates Roosevelt had a daughter Cornelia, who married Baron von Zedlitz of Austria, who was drowned in a collision with the German emperor's yacht in 1901. James Roosevelt died on April 5, 1875 in New York City when he broke his thigh bone in a fall and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York. Cornelia wife died on February 14, 1876 in Paris.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_I._Roosevelt

• "Roosevelt genealogy 1649-1902" by Charles Barney Whittelsey. p 51-52, publ 1902 available at archive.org
• James I. Roosevelt in Wikipedia
• Ancestry Family Trees. Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.

Acknowledgments

• Thank you to Carol Gibson for creating WikiTree profile Roosevelt-318 through the import of Gibson_Peck Family Trees.ged on Jan 26, 2013.