Nicholas Roosevelt
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Nicholas Isaac Roosevelt (1767 - 1854), a member of the distinguished New York family of Dutch descent, was a major investor in Upstate New York land. He and his brother John sold a large tract of land in Oswego County, New York, for instance, to Geroge Scriba in 1793 (now the Town of Scriba). Nicholas Roosevelt is remembered more as an inventor and for participation with Robert Fulton in their steamboat ventures. Nicholas Roosevelt married Lydia Latrobe, daughter of his best friend and business partner, Benjamin Henry Latrobe, the distinguished American architect. Lydia was thirteen years old when Nicholas began courting her. They married when she was seventeen, he forty-one years old. Nicholas Roosevelt died at Skaneateles, New York, where he had a home, built in 1831 and extant at 101 East Genesee Street. He was survived by Lydia Latrobe Roosevelt, who died in 1878. Nicholas Roosevelt was uncle of President Theodore Roosevelt. Other members of the Roosevelt family resided in the village of Skaneateles, including Frederick Roosevelt, cousin of the president, and Samuel Morris Roosevelt.
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- "Nicholas Roosevelt"
- Roosevelt Genealogy
- Roosevelt Family Tree (incomplete)
- Syracuse-Onondaga County Planning Agency. Onondaga Landmarks: A Survey of historic and Architectural Sites in Syracuse and Onondaga County, 1975.
