Brief Life History of John Aspinwall
When John Aspinwall Roosevelt was born on 13 March 1916, in Hyde Park, Hyde Park, Dutchess, New York, United States, his father, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was 34 and his mother, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, was 31. He married Anne Lindsay Clark on 18 June 1938, in Nahant, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Pasadena, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1950 and New York, United States in 1981. He died on 27 April 1981, in New York City, New York, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Hyde Park, Hyde Park, Dutchess, New York, United States.
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- John A Roosevelt, "United States 1950 Census"
- John Roosevelt, "United States Social Security Death Index"
- John A Roosevelt, "New York, New York Passenger and Crew Lists, 1909, 1925-1957"
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1917
U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.
1917 · Women Given the Right to Vote in New York
Voters in New York approve a bill giving women the right to vote. This is passed three years prior to the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution which allowed women to vote nationwide.
1934 · Alcatraz Island Becomes Federal Penitentiary
Alcatraz Island officially became Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary on August 11, 1934. The island is situated in the middle of frigid water and strong currents of the San Francisco Bay, which deemed it virtually inescapable. Alcatraz became known as the toughest prison in America and was seen as a “last resort prison.” Therefore, Alcatraz housed some of America’s most notorious prisoners such as Al Capone and Robert Franklin Stroud. Due to the exorbitant cost of running the prison, and the deterioration of the buildings due to salt spray, Alcatraz Island closed as a penitentiary on March 21, 1963.
Name Meaning
Dutch: habitational name, either from a farm named Rozenveld (there is one in Zeeland) or from one named Ruiseveld (there is one in Brabant). Rozenfeld could be a compound of Middle Dutch rose ‘wild rose’ (or ‘poppy’?) + velt ‘open country’, or, like Ruiseveld, of Middle Dutch rusch ‘rush, reed’ (roos- in field names) + velt, thus ‘open land growing with rushes’. If the source is Ruiseveld then Roosevelt is a variant of the Flemish surname Van Ruyssevelt, recorded as Roysevelt in 1646 and de Roosevelt in 1652.
History: The two US presidents Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) and Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882–1945) and the latter's wife Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) were all descended from a common ancestor, Claes Maertensz(en) van ‘t Rosevelt, who had settled in New Amsterdam in New Netherland (now New York City, NY) from the Netherlands in 1649. It is usually said that he was the son of Maertin Cornelissen Geldersman, who at about this time had bought the farm of Rozenveld (or Rosevelt) in Tholen, Zeeland, from Pieter Jorissen op het Rosevelt and his son Joris Pietersen. However, there is no proof of any kinship between the two men or that Claes came from Tholen. The family became prosperous with the growth of Manhattan. Theodore Roosevelt was born in New York City; his mother was of Irish and Huguenot descent (see Delano ). Franklin Delano Roosevelt was his 5th cousin.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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