Description

Page 1

1. Grace W. Roosevelt with Mother Ellen Murray Crosby Roosevelt at 4 months old.
2. Grace W. Roosevelt with Father John Aspinwall Roosevelt at 4 months old.
3. Grace W. Roosevelt 16 months old.
4. Grace W. Roosevelt 11 months old.
5. Grace W. Roosevelt 16 months old.

Page 2

1. Ellen Crosby Roosevelt 2 years old.
2. Grace Walton Roosevelt 3 years old.

Page 3  Poughkeepsie 1885

1. Josephine Boynton and Grace W. Roosevelt
2. Ellen C. Roosevelt, [(Twins) Hortense Adele Boynton, Josephine Boynton From Providence RI] Florence Hutton, Grace Roosevelt and Elizabeth “Bessie” Rogers in Poughkeepsie
3. Grace W. Roosevelt, Ellen C. Roosevelt and Elizabeth “Bessie” Rogers
4. Family Dog

Page 4 Pine Hill New Jersey

1. Grace W. Roosevelt and Ellen C. Roosevelt
2. Grace Ashton Crosby daughter of Rev. Howard Crosby, Ellen and Grace Roosevelt in Pine Hill. First Cousins on Mother’s Side.
3. Ellen C. Roosevelt, Grace W. Roosevelt and Grace Ashton Crosby in Pine Hill
4. Ellen Murray Crosby Roosevelt in Atlantic City, NJ
5. Joanna Willis Abeel in Atlantic City, NJ
6. Grace Roosevelt in Atlantic City, NJ

Page 5 – Poughkeepsie, NY 1890

1. Ellen C. Roosevelt, Tom Barrm, Grace W. Roosevelt and May Sanford
2. Same As Above
3. Grace W. Roosevelt, Ellen C. Roosevelt and Elizabeth “Bessie” Rogers
4. Same As Above

Page 6 – 1890

1. Grace W. Roosevelt, Ellen C. Roosevelt and Fannie K. Gregory
2. Same As Above
3. Fredrick Barber Campbell (See Bio Below), Grace W. Roosevelt and Ellen C. Roosevelt 1891
4. Grace W. Roosevelt and Mary “May” Sanford
5. Same As Above

Page 7

1. Some Canadians with Grace and Ellen Roosevelt at Roberval Lake St. John P.Q. Canada 1891
2. Same As Above
3. George “Carl” Boyd, Grace W. Roosevelt, Ellen C. Roosevelt and Dr. White in Murray Bay Canada 1891
4. Same As Above (See Newspaper Article Below for Carl Boyd and Dr. White)
5. Same As Above

Page 8

1. Ellen and Grace Roosevelt, Mable and Maud Bonner – Poughkeepsie 1891 (See Below for Bio on Mabel and Maud Bonner)
2. Same As Above
3. Grace Roosevelt, Nina Grony, Emily Grony and Ellen Roosevelt Poughkeepsie 1891
4. Emily Grony, Ellen Roosevelt, Nina Grony and Grace Roosevelt Murray Bay 1892
5. Dugald Gordon McDougall (See Bio Below), Ellen Roosevelt, Bessie Rogers, Grace Roosevelt, Appleton Lesure Clark, Mr. Buddan, Mr. Tibbits and Dorsey Noah Hunt Schenck (See Bio Below) at Murray Bay 1892
6. Same As Above

Page 9 – Poughkeepsie NY 1892

1. John Bard Rogers, Grace Roosevelt, Ellen Roosevelt and Elizabeth “Bessie” Rogers
2. Same As Above
3. Oliver “Ollie” Campbell (See Bio Below), Duer du Pont Brec (See Bio Below), Ellen Roosevelt, Fanny K. Gregory and Grace Roosevelt
4. Same As Above
5. Anna Pendleton Schenck (See Bio Below), Grace Roosevelt, Miss McClintock (See Bio Below), Elizabeth “Bessie” Rogers, Bayard Cutting, Dorsey Schenck, Ellen Roosevelt and Frederic Van Schoonhoven Crosby in Murray Bay Canada 1892

Page 10

1. Ellen Roosevelt, Anna Pendleton Schenck and Grace Roosevelt March 6, 1893 in Poughkeepsie NY
2. Same As Above
3. Louisa Lansing Crosby, Grace Roosevelt, John Bard Rogers and Ellen Roosevelt December 27, 1892 After The Theatre in Poughkeepsie NY
4. Ellen Roosevelt, Clarence Hobart and Grace Roosevelt
5. Anna Pendleton Schenck, Grace Roosevelt, Miss McClintock, Elizabeth “Bessie” Rogers, Bayard Cutting (See Bio Below), Dorsey Schenck, Ellen Roosevelt and Fred Crosby in Murray Bay Canada 1892

Page 11 – Poughkeepsie NY 1893

1. Grace and Ellen Roosevelt and Clarence Hobart (See Below For Bio)
2. Same As Above
3. Charlie Swords, Clarence Hobart, Grace and Ellen Roosevelt
4. Same As Above

Page 12

1. Charlie Swords, Clarence Hobart, Grace and Ellen Roosevelt
2. Top Row: John Bard Rogers and Fanny Gregory, Bottom Row: Artist Edward Townsend Howes, Helen Gantry, Grace Roosevelt and Fred Crosby in Murray Bay July 18, 1893
3. Grace Roosevelt on Horse
4. Ellen Roosevelt, Mr. Beard and Fanny Gregory August 7, 1893 in Murray Bay
5. John Bard Rogers and Fanny Gregory, Artist Edward Townsend Howes, Helen Gantry, Grace Roosevelt and Fred Crosby in Murray Bay July 18, 1893

Page 13- Murray Bay Canada

1. Mr. Beard, Fannie K. Gregory, Ellen Roosevelt and Fred Crosby August 7, 1893
2. Fanny K. Gregory and Mrs. John A. Roosevelt
3. Mr. Farnum, Gordon McDougall, Grace and Ellen Roosevelt 1893 August 10, 1893
4. Mr. Farnum, Anna Schenck, Grace Roosevelt and Bayard Cutting August 24, 1893
5. Mr. Farnum, Gordon McDougall, Grace and Ellen Roosevelt 1893 August 10, 1893

Page 14 – Murray Bay Canada

1. Mr. Farnum, Gordon McDougall, Grace and Ellen Roosevelt 1893 August 10, 1893
2. Mr. Edward C. Grant, Ellen Roosevelt, Grace Roosevelt and Mr. Drake August 31, 1893
3. Elizabeth “Bessie” Rogers, Miss Lawrence, Isabel Lesure, Gordon McDougal, Grace Roosevelt, Fannie K. Gregory and John Bard Rogers
4. Mr. Edward C. Grant Grant, Ellen Roosevelt, Grace Roosevelt and Mr. Drake August 31, 1893
5. Grace Roosevelt, Mr. Drake and Golf Caddy Emile

Page 15 – Murray Bay Canada on Horses

1. Grace Roosevelt 1894
2. Ellen Roosevelt 1894
3. Grace Roosevelt 1893
4. Ellen Roosevelt 1893
5. Grace Roosevelt, Ellen Roosevelt and John Bard Rogers 1893
6. Miss Lawrence 1894

Page 16 – Taken at Hastings On The Hudson – Washington’s Birthday Spree – Feb. 22, 1894

1. Clarence Hobart, Fred Crosby, Isabel M. Gregory, Fanny K. Gregory (See Bio Below), Ellen Roosevelt, Grace Roosevelt and Appleton Lesure Clark
2. Clarence Hobart, Fred Crosby, Isabel M. Gregory, Fanny K. Gregory, Ellen Roosevelt, Grace Roosevelt and Appleton Lesure Clark
3. Clarence Hobart, Fred Crosby, Isabel M. Gregory, Fanny K. Gregory, Ellen Roosevelt, Grace Roosevelt and Appleton Lesure Clark
4. Clarence Hobart, Fred Crosby, Isabel M. Gregory, Fanny K. Gregory, Ellen Roosevelt, Grace Roosevelt and Appleton Lesure Clark

Page 17

1. Mrs. Mun and Grace Roosevelt Lake Good, NJ March 1894
2. Gordon McDougall, Ellen Roosevelt, Grace Roosevelt and Phil Johnson Murray Bay March 1894
3. Mrs. Mun and Grace Roosevelt  Lake Good, NJ March 1894
4. Gordon McDougall, Ellen Roosevelt, Grace Roosevelt and Phil Johnson Murray Bay March 1894
5. Ellen Roosevelt and Miss Lawrence
6. Gordon McDougall, Ellen Roosevelt, Grace Roosevelt and Phil Johnson Murray Bay March 1894

Page 18

1. Grace and Ellen Roosevelt with Buddy and Daisy Boynton May 19, 1895
2. Grace and Ellen Roosevelt with Buddy and Daisy Boynton May 19, 1895
3. Grace Roosevelt and Appleton L. Clark Murray Bay 1894
4. Grace Roosevelt and Appleton L. Clark Bristol Rhode Island March 30, 1895

Page 19

1. Grace Roosevelt Clark and Appleton Lesure Clark Midland Beach Staten Island 1898
2. Grace Roosevelt Clark, Appleton Lesure Clark and Roosevelt Lesure Clark Murray Bay Canada 1898
3. Grace Roosevelt Clark, Appleton Lesure Clark and Roosevelt Lesure Clark Midland Beach 1898
4. Ellen Roosevelt and mother Mrs. John A. Roosevelt
5. Ellen Roosevelt and mother Mrs. John A. Roosevelt

Page 20 – September 5, 1898

1. Roosevelt L. Clark With Grace Roosevelt Clark
2. Roosevelt L. Clark With Appleton Lesure Clark
3. Roosevelt Clark
4. Roosevelt Clark with Dog Owner

Page 21

1. Roosevelt L. Clark with his Nurse Maxxie in Staten Island 1899 (Census shows Mary Green, Annie Carty and Catherine Hewitt as live in servants. Maxxie would have been one of them.)
2. Appleton, Grace and children Roosevelt Lesure Clark and Russell Crosby Clark 1903
3. Roosevelt Clark and Russell Clark 1903
4. Ellen Crosby Roosevelt and Fannie K. Gregory
5. Ellen Roosevelt and E.R. Jones

Page 22

1. Appleton Lesure Clark and Grace Walton Roosevelt Clark
2. Ellen Murray Crosby Roosevelt
3. Ellen Murray Crosby Roosevelt and Roosevelt Lesure Clark

Page 23

1. Isaac Roosevelt’s Coat of Arms (See Bio Below)
2. Ellen and Grace Roosevelt

All Sitters In Photos Above:

1. John Aspinwall Roosevelt                                 Researched
2. Ellen Murray Crosby Roosevelt                     Researched
3. Grace Walton Roosevelt                                    Researched
4. Ellen Crosby Roosevelt                                       Researched
5. Josephine Boynton                                                Researched
6. Hortense Adele Boynton                                    Researched
7. Florence Hutton
8. Elizabeth “Bessie” Rogers                                  Researched
9. Grace Ashton Crosby                                            Researched
10. Joanna Willis Abeel                                                Researched
11. Tom or Jim Barron
12. Fannie K. Gregory                                                    Researched
13. Fredrick Barber Campbell                                   Researched
14. Mary “May” Sanford
15. Carl Boyd                                                                        Researched
16. Dr. White                                                                        Researched
17. Mabel Bonner                                                              Researched
18. Maud Bonner                                                               Researched
19. Nina Grony ??
20. Emily Grony ??
21. Appleton Lesure Clark                                            Researched
22. Mr. Buddan
23. Mr. Tibbits
24. Dorsey Noah Hunt Schenck                                Researched
25. John Bard Rogers                                                       Researched
26. Oliver “Ollie” Campbell                                          Researched
27. Duer du Pont Breck                                                  Researched
28. Anna Pendleton Schenck                                       Researched
29. Miss J. M. McClintock                                               Researched
30. William Bayard Cutting Jr.                                     Researched
31. Frederic Van Schoonhoven Crosby                   Researched
32. Louisa Lansing Crosby                                               Researched
33. Clarence Hobart                                                           Researched
34. Charlie Swords
35. Artist Edward Townsend Howes                         Researched
36. Helen Gantry
37. Mr. Beard
38. Mr. Farnam
39. Dugald Gordon McDougall                                    Researched
40. Mr. Edward C. Grant                                                   Researched
41. Mr. Drake
42. Miss Lawrence
43. Isabel Lesure
44. Isabel M. Gregory
45. Mrs. Mun
46. Phil Johnson
47. Buddy Boynton
48. Daisy Boynton
49. Roosevelt Lesure Clark
50. Russell Crosby Clark

Biographies

Grace Walton Roosevelt was the daughter of John Aspinwall Roosevelt, an estate proprietor, and Ellen Murray Crosby. (June 3, 1867 – November 29, 1945) and was an American tennis player of the end of the 19th century, born in Hyde Park, New York. She started playing tennis with her sister Ellen in 1879 when her father installed a tennis court at their mansion. In 1889, she won the unofficial mixed doubles title at the U.S. National Championship with A.E. Wright. She won the doubles title in 1890 with her sister Ellen, defeating compatriots Margarette Ballard and Bertha Townsend in two sets. In 1895, she married lawyer Appleton LeSure Clark and had two sons, Russell and Roosevelt. She returned to her parents' mansion after her husband's death in 1930. She was a first cousin of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd president of the United States.

 

Ellen Crosby Roosevelt (August 20, 1868 – September 26, 1954) was an American tennis player. She was the daughter of John Aspinwall Roosevelt, an estate proprietor, and Ellen Murray Crosby. She started playing tennis with her sister Grace in 1879 when her father installed a tennis court at their mansion. She won the women's singles title at the 1890 U.S. Championships defeating the 1888 and 1889 champion Bertha Townsend in the final in two sets. The same year, she won the doubles title with her sister. They were the first pair of sisters to win the U.S. Championships and remained the only pair to do so until the Williams sisters equaled their achievement in 1999. At the 1893 U.S. Championships, she won the mixed doubles title with Oliver Campbell. Her other career singles highlights include winning the Staten Island Ladies Club Open in 1890. She was a first cousin of Franklin D. Roosevelt, and she was posthumously inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1975.

 

Roosevelt Family  Even if you don’t know anything about tennis, you’ve probably heard of some of the big names of female players today, like Venus and Serena Williams, or Billie Jean King. These women are powerhouses on the court, but they have the benefit of wearing modern day shoes and light attire. Now, if you were hitting the tennis ball around in 1890, you played on grass, your shoes had a bit more of a heel, and you wore things like a corset and a long skirt. Ellen C. Roosevelt not only accomplished this feat, but she won her share of championships.

Ellen was born into wealth in 1868 as the daughter of John and Ellen Roosevelt. Ellen and her older sister Grace learned how to play tennis in the 1870s after their father had a tennis court built on their family’s estate. They lived in Rosedale, a beautiful mansion located on the border of Hyde Park and the Town of Poughkeepsie on the North Road. Both of the sisters would practice against each other on their home court before competing in local matches in the 1880s. In the second annual tournament of the Hudson River Lawn Tennis Association in 1889, Ellen had to take on her older sister Grace in the finals and ended up beating her with a score of 6-1, 6-2.

Ellen and Grace found themselves winning regularly and eventually made it to the 1890 U.S. Championships, which is now known as the U.S. Open. The first women’s championships were held at the Philadelphia Cricket Club on a grass court. The newspapers claimed that the women’s matches were far more interesting and had many more spectators than the men’s. Ellen surprised everyone when she beat out Miss Bertha Townsend, who was the first to win two championships in a row, 1888 and 1889. The sisters found that they were tough to beat when they played together in the doubles tournaments, and they proved this 1890 when they beat out the previous doubles champs, Lida Voorhees and Bertha Townsend. They remained the only sister pair to do this until the Williams sisters in 1999. As a result of her early victories, Ellen was placed in the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1975.

Aside from her interest in Tennis, Ellen had a great passion for the sport of Ice Yachting, and regularly sailed vessels like Icicle, which had belonged to her father, as well as her cousin Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s yacht named Hawk. This particular sport was quite dangerous as it involved maneuvering what were essentially large ice skates with masts, and catching winds on the frozen Hudson River in high speed races. Given the risks of crashes or breaking through the ice, the sport was mostly done by men. Ellen, who loved the outdoors and clearly enjoyed proving herself to others, showed time and again that she was just as talented as any man, even outracing her father. He admitted to the Poughkeepsie Journal in 1903, “My daughter has frequently beaten me when I have been sailing the Icicle and she has had a smaller boat such as Franklin Roosevelt’s Hawk, which is not supposed to be so fast.” In another newspaper article from 1894 it claimed that “Miss Roosevelt is sometimes spoken of by her friends as a model girl. She is strong and fond of out-door sports, but is also deft with her needle, and skilled in all branches of culinary art and housekeeping.”

After Ellen’s father died in 1909 and later her mother in 1928, she continued to live and care for the estate at Rosedale and enjoyed a quiet life, having never married. Her sister Grace married a successful lawyer named Appleton Clark in 1895, and when he died in 1930, she rejoined Ellen at Rosedale. There they both remained until Grace’s death in 1945, and Ellen’s in 1954. The Roosevelt sisters had been supporters of Saint James’ Episcopal Church in Hyde Park as well as the Red Cross in both WWI and WWII. Their family home still stands today and is currently being restored.

Oliver Samuel Edward Michael Campbell (February 25, 1871 – July 11, 1953) was an American male tennis player who won the three consecutive singles titles at the U.S. Championships from 1890 through 1892. Campbell was educated at Columbia College, graduating in 1891 and was posthumously inducted into the Athletics Hall of Fame in 2010.

For over a century, Campbell had the honour of being the youngest male player to win the U.S. singles title. He did it as a 19-year, 6 months and 9 days old student in 1890. That record went to fellow American Pete Sampras, 19 years and 28 days, when he won the title in 1990.

Campbell defended his title in the challenge round matches in 1891, defeating Clarence Hobart, and in 1892, defeating Fred Hovey, but did not defend it in 1893 and thereby defaulted the title to Robert Wrenn. The challenge round against Clarence Hobart was the first title match played over five sets.

In addition to his singles titles Campbell won the men's doubles titles at the U.S. National Championships in 1888, 1891 and 1892.

His other career singles highlights include winning the Tropical Championships on hard courts at the St. Augustine, Florida on four occcasions (1889–1891, 1894). he also won the Englewood Open twice (1987–1888). He won single events at the New York Tennis Club Open (1886), the Orange Spring Tournament (1887), the Westchester Lawn Tennis Club (Invitation) (1888), the Elberon Casino Invitation (1888), New Hamburg Invitation (1888), the Nahant Invitation (1890), South Side Field Club (1890) and the Narragansette Pier Open (1890). In addition he was a finalist at the Flushing Athletic Club Open (1889). Campbell was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1955.

Fredrick Barber Campbell  Enlisted, 1894, in Troop 2 ( Troop B ), Squadron A Cavalry, NYNG, New York City. Served with Squadron A Cavalry during the Brooklyn Trolley Riots, January 1895 and the Croton Dam Strike, April 1900. He served in Squadron A during the Spanish American War era. Discharged from Squadron A Cavalry in 1906.

Occupation, lawyer, 45 Wall Street, New York, NY

Clarence Hobart (June 27, 1870 – August 2, 1930) was a tennis player from the United States. He was a six-time champion at the U.S. National Championships, winning three titles in men's doubles in 1890, 1893 and 1894 and three others in mixed doubles in 1892, 1893 and 1905. Hobart also reached the Challenge Round in the Gentlemen's Singles in 1891, finishing runner-up.

In 1905 he won the mixed doubles title at the U.S. National Championship with Augusta Schultz whom he married in 1895.

In 1899 he won the Championship of Germany, played in Homburg, by defeating A.W. Gore in the final in three straight sets and subsequently winning against Irishman Harold Mahony in the challenge round in five sets.  At the same venue he reached the final of the Homburg Cup but lost in five sets to Wimbledon champion Reggie Doherty after leading 2–0 in sets. During a 1903 tour in Europe he reached the finals of the Kent Championships and the Ostend International tournament in Belgium but was defeated by A.W. Gore and Paul de Borman respectively.

In 1907 Hobart competed in the Longwood tournament, at the time the most important tournament in the U.S. next to the national championship, and won the All-Comers tournament. This entitled him to play for the tournament title in the Challenge Round against Larned, the winner of the previous title, but he refused to play explaining "For many years I have opposed the practice of permitting the holders to stand out in our tournaments,... on the obvious ground that it is unjust to pit a tired man against a fresh one, and equally unjust to give the holder only one chance for defeat while the challenger must necessarily have several.". His refusal contributed to the abandonment in 1912 of the Challenge Round system at the U.S. National Championships.

Clarence Hobart died on August 2, 1930, as a result of an accident at a swimming pool in Asheville, NC.

William Bayard Cutting Jr. (June 13, 1878 – March 19, 1910) was an American diplomat who served as secretary to the U.S. embassy to the Court of St. James's.

Cutting was born in New York City on June 13, 1878, and grew up at Westbrook, the family estate in Long Island. He was the eldest of four children born to William Bayard Cutting and Olivia Peyton (née Murray) Cutting (1855–1949). His younger siblings included Justine Bayard Cutting, Bronson Murray Cutting, a U.S. Senator, and Olivia Murray Cutting, who married Henry James.

His maternal grandfather was Bronson Murray of Murray Hill. Through his paternal grandparents, Fulton Cutting and Elise Justine Bayard, he was a descendant of the Livingston family. His great-grandfather, Robert Bayard, was Robert Fulton's partner, and both married Livingston sisters. Cutting ancestors included members from the Bayard, Schuyler and Van Cortlandt families of colonial New York. His uncle was financier Robert Fulton Cutting.

Cutting prepared at the Groton School, before entering Harvard University in the Autumn of 1896, where he graduated in 1900, completing his courses in only "three years with the highest honors." While at Harvard, he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, played on his class' baseball team, was captain of the University golf team, and became friends with George Santayana.

After his graduation from Harvard, Cutting went abroad as private secretary to Joseph Hodges Choate, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom, where he met his wife.

After his marriage, Cutting returned to the United States where he studied law at Columbia Law School, but never engaged in active practice. While in New York, they stayed at the residence of his father, 24 East 72nd Street, and he was an active member of the Knickerbocker Club. The Cuttings were friends of novelist Edith Wharton, who wrote, in memorial, the following about him:

“This ceaseless intellectual curiosity was fed by familiarity with many tongues. It seemed to Bayard Cutting a perfectly natural and simple thing to learn a new language for the sake of reading a new book; and he did it, as the French say, ‘in playing.’ His gift of tongues undoubtedly contributed to his open-mindedness and increased the flexibility of his sympathies. It was the key to different points of view, and that key he was never weary of turning.”

In October 1905, they reportedly moved to St. Moritz, Switzerland under the notion that the Swiss mountains would improve his failing health, although this was later denied by his family who said, instead, they moved to visit his wife's family members.

He later moved to Milan where he served as Deputy United States Consul at Milan for several years. While in Italy, Ambassador Lloyd Carpenter Griscom dispatched Cutting to Messina following the 1908 earthquake to establish a consulate and where he was one of the first foreigners to arrive. Cutting "did much to relieve the suffering there." In 1909, he was appointed the Secretary of Embassy at Tangier, a city in northwestern Morocco that is the capital of the Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima region. However, Harvard offered him a lectureship on British Colonial Government beginning in the fall of 1910, and he, therefore, resigned as Secretary to prepare for his teaching. Cutting then traveled to Egypt to study the British Government there before planning on moving on to other British Colonies.

After denying reports of their engagement in February 1901, Cutting was married to Lady Sybil Marjorie Cuffe (1879–1943) at All Saints' Church in London, England on April 30, 1901. Lady Sybil was the youngest daughter of Irish peer and barrister, Hamilton Cuffe, 5th Earl of Desart, who served as the last Lord Lieutenant of Kilkenny, and his wife, Lady Margaret Joan Lascelles, a daughter of Henry Lascelles, 4th Earl of Harewood. Her older sister, Lady Joan Elizabeth Mary Cuffe, was married to the British courtier, Sir Harry Lloyd-Verney. Together, William and Lady Sybil were the parents of one daughter:

• Iris Margaret Cutting (1902–1988), an author of many books who married Antonio Origo, an illegitimate son of Marchese Clemente Origo, in March 1924.

After a ten-day illness, Cutting died of tuberculosis at age 31 on March 10, 1910, in Aswan, Egypt.  After his body was returned to the United States, he was buried at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York.

Before he died, he wrote to his wife that he wanted their young daughter, Iris, to grow up in Italy, "free from all this national feeling which makes people so unhappy. Bring her up somewhere where she does not belong." Lady Sybil and her daughter settled in Florence, Italy; buying the Villa Medici in Fiesole, one of the city's most spectacular villas. There they formed a close friendship with Bernard Berenson, who lived not far away at I Tatti.

In 1918 his widow remarried to architectural historian Geoffrey Scott, of the Berensonain circle. They divorced in 1926, and she remarried to Percy Lubbock, an essayist, critic, and biographer. Lady Sybil was also a writer and published On Ancient Ways; A Winter Journey in 1928, and The Child in the Crystal in 1939.

Due to his efforts with the Italian earthquake, the American Red Cross awarded him, along with Ambassador Griscom and Commander Reginald R. Belknap, its Red Cross gold medal of merit in 1909.

In 1910, a number of people jointly gave $25,000 to endow a Harvard fellowship "in memory of the late William Bayard Cutting, Jr., of New York, of the Class of 1900." The fellowship was "to be reserved exclusively for men of the highest intellectual attainments and of the greatest promise as productive scholars. It [was] never to be given to the best among any number of applicants, unless the best man is one of the first-rate and well-rounded excellence."

Duer du Pont Breck  Son of Charles duPont Breck and Mary Duer. Married Sydney Sewall Manley, daughter of Joseph H. Manley, on Dec 28, 1905 in Augusta, Maine. Assistant Secretary of the Mutual Life Insurance Company. Died by his own gun in a shooting while hunting near his home in Garden City, NY. Some said it was accidental but it was ruled a suicide.

Mabel and Maud Bonner  (Mabel and Maud were daughters of George Bonner, Stockbroker & Financier, of West Brighton, Staten Island, New York and Isabella Sewell and lived in Castleton New York and had three Irish servants in 1875 Census.) (Mrs "Mootzie" Maud (Bonner) Cabot, of Mount Murray, Cap-à-l'Aigle, Quebec) George moved to New York to join his elder brother John, who was already well established. There he found a job with a firm of agents whose business was mainly with France. His knowledge of French soon won him an important position within the firm, which he left when he reached his majority to launch his own. Enormously successful, he moved into a house on Staten Island called Stadacone, after his birthplace. In 1869, at the age of thirty-two, he married Isabel Sewell of Quebec, with whom he spent all his holidays at Murray Bay. They loved this place more than any in the world, and except for a few trips to Europe spent every summer there with their three daughters, Maud, Mabel, and Isabel. In 1898 they built a villa near the riverbank at Pointe-au-Pic, following the example of Susanna Shaw Minturn, who was aleady installed in her big house close to the Protestant church. Three years later a friend of the Bonners, Alfred C. Chapin, mayor of Brooklyn, bought a huge estate on the rest of the point. The eldest of the Bonner girls, Maud, married Francis Higginson Cabot. In 1902, her father purchased the seigneury of Mount Murray for fifty thousand dollars and gave it to her. She thus became seigneur of Cap-a1'Aigle — a role she played with the enthusiasm that came naturally to her. For more than fifty years Maud Cabot, known to her intimates as Mootzie, was the driving spirit of the place. The Cabot family maintains to this day the tradition of holidays at Charlevoix. Lac a Gravelle lies within the seigneury, which formerly comprised an immense territory of ninety square miles; the best trout are still caught here, in a mountain setting. The seigneury of Mount Murray has managed to preserve its prime function as a farm that works in harmony with the ecology of the rural neighborhood; the family's holidays are working holidays devoted to the upkeep of the farm. The Cabots' respect for nature in all its forms is doubtless the reason they come back every summer to Les Quatre Vents, Chouette, and CacheCache. The atmosphere that had hitherto characterized Murray Bay was in the process of changing. The coming of the Americans upset established habits and ways of thought: "But with the coming of the Americans, everything gradually changed; Americans built new, better and bigger houses, George Thomas Bonner (1837-1924) Because of a cholera epidemic that hit Quebec in 1842, George was packed off to Cap-a-FAigle when he was barely five. From then on he spent every summer of his childhood at Beach Farm Cottage with the Frasers, the seigneurs of Mount Murray. The Cabot family going to church Maud Bonner Cabot and her children, Higginson and George, pause for the photographer on their way to church.

An invitation to Mount Murray Manor The manor needed major repairs after the damage caused by an earthquake in 1925. In the seigneury, the Cabot tea parties were among the most sought-after events.

Furnished them more luxuriously, they brought ways that they had been used to at home, if not really urban and sophisticated, yet more so than those of the Canadian pioneers."32 The American writer Sedgwick considered that the new summer residents brought with them a more modern outlook. Susanna Shaw Minturn, the first American woman to build a villa on the riverbank, in 1895, was inspired by summer residences along the coasts of New England. Up till then, the Minturns had rented cottages overlooking the bay; now they chose a location giving directly onto the river. Her summer residence encouraged the establishment of a small ailAmerican colony that included the Stokes, the Sedgwicks, the Bowditches, the Harlans, and the Olivers; together, they seemed to constitute a sort of clan, bound together by a common passion for this area. However, they were not the only Americans; the Taft family from Cincinnati had already started coming to Pointe-au-Pic. 151 The Morgans In 1931 two American painters, Maud Cabot and her husband, Patrick Morgan, combined their talents and their dynamism to create a friendly haven for creative art at La Malbaie.

The grandmother at the centre of everything The Minturns had been coming to Murray Bay since 1887, with Madame Susanna Shaw Minturn reigning affectionately over all. Their aristocratic style left its mark on summer life in the area.

Isaac Daniel Roosevelt, M.D. (September 29, 1790 – December 24, 1863) was an American doctor and farmer. He was the paternal grandfather of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Roosevelt was born on September 29, 1790, in New York City,  he was the oldest surviving son of businessman and politician James Roosevelt (1760–1847) and Maria Eliza Walton (1769–1810), the daughter of Admiral Gerard Walton (d. 1821) and a descendant of Wilhelmus Beekman, who was the treasurer of the Dutch West India Company, Mayor of New York City, Governor of Delaware from 1653 to 1664, and Governor of Pennsylvania from 1658 to 1663.

His paternal grandparents were merchant and politician Isaac Roosevelt (1726–1794), a New York State Assemblyman and the New York State Constitutional Convention, and Cornelia Hoffman. He was the 3x-great-grandson of the first Roosevelt in America, Claes Maartenszen Van Rosenvelt (d. 1659).

Roosevelt attended Princeton University before graduating in 1808. He then attended the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, receiving the degree of M.D. in 1812. He continued his medical studies until 1820 with Dr. David Hosack. Despite his extensive training, Roosevelt never practiced medicine, reportedly due to his inability to "bear the sight of human suffering."

Instead, Roosevelt's passions were with farming and when his father purchased Mount Hope, a large tract of land in Hyde Park, New York, along the Hudson River, Roosevelt left New York City to live there permanently. In 1832, near his father's home, Roosevelt built a house at the center of his estate called Rosedale. Today it is known as the Isaac Roosevelt House and still stands on Riverview Circle in Hyde Park. The home was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993, along with a cottage and boathouse on the Hudson River nearby.

In 1825, he married Mary Rebecca Aspinwall (1809–1886), daughter of merchant John Aspinwall (1779–1847) and Susan (née Howland) Aspinwall (1779–1852) of New York. Together, they had two sons:

• James Roosevelt I (1828–1900), who first married Rebecca Brien Howland (1831—1876). After her death, he married Sara Ann Delano (1854–1941)

• John Aspinwall Roosevelt (1840–1909), who married Ellen M. Crosby (1837—1928), daughter of William Henry Crosby, on June 6, 1866.

He died on December 24, 1863, at the age of 73 in Hyde Park, New York. His elder son, James, inherited Mount Hope (which burnt down in 1866 and the land was sold to the state of New York after which he purchased Springwood in Hyde Park), and his younger son, John, inherited Rosedale. His eldest son, James Roosevelt I, was the father of diplomat James Roosevelt Roosevelt (1854–1927), with Howland, and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882– 1945), with Delano. Younger son, John Aspinwall, was the father of tennis players Grace Walton Roosevelt (1867–1945) and Ellen Crosby Roosevelt (1868–1954).

The name “Roosevelt” comes from the Dutch “Rosenvelt” meaning “rose field.” The Roosevelt Family Coat of Arms is of a rosebud bearing three red roses on a mound of green set against a background of silver with a crest consisting of a visored helmet and three ostrich plumes in silver and red. The Roosevelt Family Motto accompanying the Coat of Arms is “Qui plantavit curabit” which can be translated as “The one who planted it will take care of it” or “He who will plant will cultivate.”

Gregory Family Fanny K. Gregory was born October 1869 and Isabelle M. Gregory was born March 1877 to Edward Cooke Gregory and Mary E. Gregory. They lived in Manhattan and must have had some prestige as they had four maids in 1930.  In 1900 they had five servants. Doesn’t appear the sisters ever married. They lived at home in all censuses with parents and when parents died they continued to live together.

Elizabeth and John Bard Rogers – Elizabeth was born December 30, 1868 and John was born September 20, 1861 to Nathaniel Pendelton Rogers and Emily Moulton both of Hyde Park New York money.

Emily Moulton Rogers (1830-1895) was the wife of Nathaniel Pendleton Rogers (1822-1892). She was born on March 26, 1830, and passed away on May 28, 1895. Emily is buried in Hyde Park, New York, USA . Their lives intertwined, a story etched in time, like the pages of a forgotten book. 📜

In the quiet of Hyde Park, where the wind whispers secrets to the ancient oaks, Emily rests. Her name, a delicate echo across the years, conjures memories of love and loss. Nathaniel, her steadfast companion, walked beside her through life’s winding paths. Together, they weathered storms and basked in sun-kissed moments.

Their love, perhaps unremarkable to the world, was a symphony of shared glances, whispered promises, and stolen kisses. Beneath the sprawling branches, they carved their initials into the bark—a testament to their enduring bond. The seasons danced around them, weaving their tale into the very fabric of the earth.

Emily’s eyes held the wisdom of generations, and her laughter echoed through the hills. Nathaniel, with his weathered hands, tended to their modest home—a refuge from the bustling world beyond. They sipped tea by the hearth, their silences speaking volumes. In the quietude of twilight, they dreamed of distant lands and whispered secrets to the moon.

When Emily departed this mortal coil, Nathaniel stood by her grave, his heart aching with the weight of memories. He planted forget-me-nots, their azure petals a tribute to their love. The wind carried their whispers, and the oaks listened, their gnarled branches cradling their story.

And so, Emily Moulton Rogers and Nathaniel Pendleton Rogers remain entwined—a love immortalized in the soil, the rustle of leaves, and the fading ink of old letters. Their legacy, woven into the very essence of Hyde Park, whispers to those who pass by: “Love endures, even when names fade.”

May their souls find solace under the watchful gaze of the stars, forever bound by the threads of time. 🌟

Anna Pendleton Schenck  was born in Brooklyn, NY, the youngest daughter of the late Reverend Dr. Noah Hunt Schenck, rector of St. Anne’s Protestant Episcopal Church of Brooklyn and his wife, Anna. She studied architecture in New York, one of the first women to receive a diploma from Columbia University, and continued her education in Paris. Just one year prior to her death she had formed a partnership with Marcia Mead, bringing the first firm of women architects to New York City. They designed plans for private homes, model tenements, and communities.. They received the first prize offered by the City Club of Chicago for the best architectural plans for a modern community settlement. The firm also drew the plans for the Ellen Wilson Memorial Homes that weren’t erected until the 1950’s due to the two World Wars and the Depression. These were homes for the workingmen and their families. Dorsey Noah Hunt Schenck was her brother.

Miss J.M. McClintock  Not much information on her. She played at Wimbleton from 1887 into the 1890’s. She also played in the U.S. Open.

Dugald Gordon McDougall (1867-1944), professor of law, was born on 28 March 1867 at Hawthorn, Melbourne, second son of Irish-born Dugald McDougall, stationer and later head of the printing firm Sands & McDougall, and his wife Mary Allott, née Chisholm, of Melbourne. McDougall was 17 when his father died. He was educated privately at St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex, England, at Hawthorn Grammar School and at Trinity College, University of Melbourne (B.A., 1888; M.A., 1890), where he proved a brilliant student, taking exhibitions in most subjects, the Wyselaskie scholarship in modern languages in 1886 and scholarships in the schools of classics, philosophy, and English, French and German in 1888. In 1888-92 he attended Balliol College, Oxford (B.A., 1892), where as Williams exhibitioner he took first classes in classical moderations, the final school of jurisprudence and the postgraduate course in civil law. He was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in 1892 and next year returned to Melbourne where he worked with the solicitors Blake & Riggall and in 1895-97 read in the chambers of Theyre à Beckett Weigall. Graduating LL.B. in 1894 and LL.M. in 1896 from the University of Melbourne, he was admitted to the Victorian Bar in 1895 and practised to 1900.

A tall, well-proportioned and handsome man, McDougall was a keen tennis and billiards player, captain of the Oxford lawn tennis IV and Oxford billiards cue in 1892. Although his father had been a founder of the Hawthorn Presbyterian Church, McDougall had been a devout Anglican since early youth. In 1900 he was appointed professor of law and modern history at the University of Tasmania. He took up the post next year after his marriage on 23 February at St Paul’s Church, Ipswich, Queensland, to Helen Ione Atkinson. In 1902 he graduated M.A. and B.C.L. from Oxford and in 1909 LL.D. from Melbourne.

McDougall made a special study of Federal law. In 1905, when he was acting professor of law at the University of Sydney, he published Self-Governing Colonies, followed by Commonwealth and States in 1907. His major achievement, however, over three decades as Tasmania’s sole full-time law academic, was to produce the State’s law graduates and consequently its judges and magistrates. In his lecturing, covering an astonishing ten subjects, great intellectual talents were combined with a teaching skill that still commands the admiration of former students. His scholarship went beyond the law: he remained well learned in history, Greek, Latin, French and German. After his wife became mentally ill about 1910, his enormous teaching load was combined with the responsibility of bringing up their six sons. He retired from the university in June 1933 as emeritus professor.

In retirement McDougall lived on Norfolk Island and later in Sydney on a yearly government grant of £100. His unsuccessful application for a Commonwealth Literary Fund pension in 1937 drew attention to his drinking problem. He died in hospital at Kogarah, Sydney, on 19 June 1944 and was cremated. Of his sons, Archibald was a Tasmanian Rhodes scholar and a lawyer, four became accountants and one a service station proprietor.

E.C. Grant, the son of James Grant and Maria Malloch, operated the Ottawa Lumber Company and its mill near Hurdman’s Bridge before retiring in 1912. He was a well-known sports figure in Ottawa, playing polo, hockey and golf. He died in 1942 survived by his wife, three sons, a brother and three sisters.

1. ↑ “Canada Census, 1871,” database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4QS-QFS : 18 March 2021), Edward C Grant in household of James A Grant, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; citing 1871; citing National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.
2. ↑ MOURN ATHLETE OF YESTERYEAR: E. C. GRANT PLAYED POLO, HOCKEY, GOLF IN OTTAWA. (1942, Sep 22). The Globe and Mail (1936-2017) Retrieved from ProQuest

Joanna Willis Abeel  daughter of Rev Gustavus Abeel.