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Delano family

Fairhaven shipping family whose Warren Delano Jr. headed Russell and Company at Canton, whose daughter Sara bore Franklin D. Roosevelt, and whose Frederic A. Delano chaired the National Resources Planning Board.

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The Delanos, Delano family of Fairhaven
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Fairhaven, Massachusetts; Canton, China; Newburgh, New York
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Plymouth and the Fairhaven line

The 1899 genealogy compiled by Joel Andrews Delano ties the American family to Philippe de Lannoy, also written Philippe de la Noye, who left Leiden to join the Fortune, the second vessel to follow the Mayflower, and landed at Plymouth on November 11, 1621. He died at Bridgewater, Massachusetts in 1681, and the genealogy lists five sons: Philip Jr., Dr. Thomas, John, Lieutenant Jonathan and Samuel.1 The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library sketch for the family papers describes the family as "descended from Philippe de la Noye who arrived in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1621," whose members "were involved in the New England sea trade."5 The genealogy also records a desk, "said to have been by Philippe brought on the 'Fortune' 1621," that passed to a branch at Cooper, Michigan.6

William Bradford's history of the colony lists "Philip Delanoy" among the purchasers of 1640 and records that in 1628 Philip Delanoy sold to Stephen Deane one acre of land, which he had received in the division of 1623, for four pounds sterling.7

The family's maritime base was Fairhaven. Captain Warren Delano (1779 to 1866), the great-grandfather of Franklin D. Roosevelt, was a sea captain and ship owner, and he married Deborah Perry Church (1783 to 1827) on November 6, 1808. After her death he married Eliza Adams on April 2, 1828.8 His descent ran from Philippe through the son Lieutenant Jonathan, who served with Benjamin Church in the war of 1675 and 1676 and was commissioned lieutenant at Dartmouth in 1689, then through Thomas Delano, Captain Ephraim Delano and the captain himself, who was the tenth child of Ephraim and was born on October 28, 1779.8

A whaling ship registered at Fairhaven carried the name Phillipe De La Noye. Her log, kept by William Childs, covers a voyage from September 6, 1852 to November 13, 1854 under her master, David G. Pierce, in the North Pacific, the Sea of Okhotsk and the Western Arctic.9 The papers of Frederic A. Delano include logs of a whaler of the same name owned by the Delano family from 1848 to 1855.10

Amasa Delano and the Tryal

Captain Amasa Delano of Duxbury, Massachusetts, born there on February 21, 1763, was a distant cousin of the Fairhaven Delanos. The genealogy traces his line from Philippe through the second son, Dr. Thomas Delano (born 1642, married Mary Alden, a daughter of John and Priscilla Mullins Alden), then Jonathan Delano Sr. (died 1765, married Hannah Doten in 1699), Jonathan Delano 2d of Rochester, and Captain Samuel Delano Sr. (died 1814, married Abigail Drew in 1762), whose eldest son Amasa became a ship master and "wrote his book of voyages." The genealogy records that he married Hannah Appleton, a widow of Boston, left no children, and died about 1823.11 Warren Delano Jr.'s line descended from Philippe through a different son, Lieutenant Jonathan, so that the two men shared Philippe as their common ancestor and no nearer one.8 Amasa's own "Biographical Sketch" gives his birth at Duxbury on February 21, 1763, to Samuel Delano and a mother of the Drew family, and mentions a brother Amasa who served in Rogers' Rangers.12

He published his Narrative of Voyages and Travels, in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres in Boston in 1817. Its eighteenth chapter, "Particulars of the Capture of the Spanish Ship Tryal, at the island of St. Maria," begins on page 319. His ship Perseverance arrived at St. Maria on February 13, 1805, and on Wednesday, February 20, the journal records a sail opening round the south head, "a Spaniard from Buenos Ayres, four months and twenty six days out of port, with slaves on board."13 The notary's certificate in the same chapter describes the slaves as "the Senegal Negroes, that the ship Tryal was carrying from the port of Valparaiso, to that of Callao of Lima." In his declaration Delano states that the Spanish captain "told him that the negroes of the Tryal had taken her, and had murdered twenty-five men," and that five or six of the Africans were killed in the boarding.14 The King of Spain sent Delano a gold medal through the consul at Boston, and in his reply of August 8, 1807 Delano wrote that the services rendered to Spanish subjects off the island were "from pure motives of humanity."15

Herman Melville's story "Benito Cereno," collected in The Piazza Tales, opens: "In the year 1799, Captain Amasa Delano, of Duxbury, in Massachusetts, commanding a large sealer and general trader, lay at anchor ... in the harbour of St. Maria." The story's Spanish captain, Benito Cereno, bears the name of the real commander of the Tryal.16

Warren Delano Jr. at Canton

Warren Delano II, whom the Roosevelt Library numbers as the second Warren and whom this vault records as Warren Delano Jr., was born at Fairhaven on July 13, 1809, the eldest child of Captain Warren Delano and Deborah Church.8 In 1833 he sailed for Canton as supercargo on the Commerce and became associated with Russell Sturgis and Company.2 Forbes's appendix gives him as a partner of Russell, Sturgis and Company from December 31, 1835, and as admitted to Russell and Company on January 1, 1840, a partnership that continued until December 31, 1846.17

During the confinement of the foreign merchants in the Canton factories in March to May 1839, Robert Bennet Forbes records that lots were drawn for the household duties and Delano replaced him as chief cook; Forbes's journal for April 1, 1839 lists "Warren Delano, head cook."18 Forbes had arranged for the junior partner of Russell, Sturgis and Company to join Russell and Company, and he names Delano, Abiel Abbot Low, Edward King and W. C. Hunter as his "most able and efficient co-operators."19 Hunter, a partner of the house from 1837 to 1842, gives Delano's entry as January 1840, describes him as formerly of Russell, Sturgis and Company, and records that he succeeded Forbes as chief of the firm after Forbes left for New York on the Niantic on July 7, 1840.20

In 1840 the Chinese authorities wanted a large foreign ship to anchor above a raft across the river. Hunter records that "Application being made to Mr. Delano, the then chief of Russell & Co., who had never left Canton," a bargain was concluded for the Chesapeake (ship), the British ship Cambridge that the firm had bought and renamed under the American flag, and that the ship was made over to the mandarins.21 Hunter also records that Delano told Forbes that Houqua was disposed to send orders to India for cotton, and that three ships were despatched with 100,000 pounds remitted.22

The Chinese record names a Delano in the same months. Commissioner Lin Zexu's edict of late 1839, as translated in The Chinese Repository, refers to "the American foreign merchant who has purchased his vessel, Delano," who also bought cotton from the country ship Charles Grant, and the vessel is the Indian store-ship Mermaid; the translation does not say which Delano is meant.23 A shipwrecked captain's letter of January 1840 thanked "Mr. Snow, the consul, W. Delano, esq., and the houses of Russell & Co., and Wetmore and Co."24 By September 1840, when the consul Snow embarked for New York, the Repository stated that "W. Delano, jun. esq. acts as vice-consul."25 The Repository's journal for May 1840 prints a petition of the American merchants at Canton to the governor of the province on the blockade notice, dated April 25, 1840 and signed by "The American vice-consul, Delano."26

The memorial of May 25, 1839

A memorial dated at Canton on May 25, 1839 was printed by the United States House of Representatives as House Document 40 of the 26th Congress, first session, and referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. The signature block includes "W. DELANO, Jr.," between the names of A. A. Low and Edward King.27

The memorial states, "We have no wish to see a revival of the opium trade," and says that "most of us" had signed a voluntary pledge to abstain from dealing in the drug. It recites that "upon the twenty-second day of March last," the signers were "made prisoners in our factories," and it asks the government to act with Great Britain, France and Holland on a set of demands and, failing that, to send an agent or commissioner with a naval force to protect American commerce.27

Forbes's memoir states that "Russell & Co. considered it important to keep the pledge made by Mr. Green, and for a long time had nothing to do with opium; certainly not within my time, between 1840 and 1844, when my interest ceased for a time." Forbes also describes the firm's operations for Houqua between January and July 1840, in which shipments made in the firm's name were bought by the house so that they could not be seized in England.28

The 1846 reorganization and the return home

Forbes records a reorganization of the house under which "W. Delano was to retire after a time," while Edward Delano remained a partner. The firm of 1844 comprised W. Delano Jr., Edward Delano, W. H. King, D. N. Spooner, P. S. Forbes and Joseph T. Gilman. Forbes writes that "In 1846 Mr. Edward Delano returned home," and in 1842 Russell Sturgis had relieved Warren Delano at the head of the house for a visit home.29 Forbes records an embarkation in the Paul Jones on December 9, 1844 that follows Delano's departure from Canton, while the genealogy places the birth of his daughter Susan Maria at Macao on October 13, 1844.2930

Warren married Catherine Robbins Lyman at Northampton, Massachusetts on November 1, 1843. She was a daughter of Joseph Lyman, a Massachusetts judge, and a granddaughter of Edward Hutchinson Robbins (1758 to 1829).30 After the Macao years the couple lived in New York until 1851, when they moved to Algonac, near Newburgh, New York.31

At Algonac, Warren's financial interests were settled in real estate and mining. He had a financial interest in the iron works at Mount Savage, Maryland, later called the Union Mining Company, and his brother Franklin Hughes Delano apparently looked after those interests during Warren's third trip to China in the 1860s.31 The panic of 1857 brought him "severe financial losses," and in 1859 he returned to China "to refresh his fortune."31

Hong Kong and the Civil War years

Forbes's appendix records that Delano was again admitted to Russell and Company on January 1, 1861, and that he retired finally on December 31, 1866; it speaks of "the stay in China, from 1861 to 1864, of Warren Delano, Jr."17 His family, which included the President's mother, Sara, joined him at Hong Kong in 1862, the daughters traveling on the clipper Surprise, and they returned to the United States after the Civil War.32 Warren's son Warren Delano III kept a scrapbook at Hong Kong in 1861, which includes a list of imports of rice into Canton waters in 1862 that his father had entered.33

The papers of Warren II hold general correspondence from 1830 to 1891, material on China financial interests from 1835 to 1871, the "Houqua Accounts and Memoranda, 1865-1867," a series of typescript copies of letters to members of Russell and Company in 1840 and 1841, and correspondence with Vogel, Hagedorn and Company of Canton and Hong Kong for 1868 to 1871.34

Frederic Adrian Delano was born at Hong Kong on September 10, 1863.30

Warren Delano died at Algonac on January 17, 1898, nearly two years after his wife's death on February 10, 1896. The genealogy puts his estate at $1,338,000.30 The house burned in 1916, was rebuilt in 1917, and was sold by the family in 1955.31

Children and the marriage network

The 1899 genealogy lists eleven children of Warren and Catherine Delano, two of whom died in infancy. The marriages extend the family into other China and New York houses.30

  • Susan Maria (1844 to 1846), born at Macao.
  • Louise Church (born 1846).
  • Deborah Perry, called Dora (born 1847), who married William Howell Forbes of Hong Kong at Paris on April 25, 1867.
  • Annie Lyman (born 1849), who married Frederick Delano Hitch of Shanghai at Newburgh on October 16, 1877. Hitch was a son of Captain George Hitch of Fairhaven.
  • Warren (born September 20, 1850, died October 10, 1851).
  • Warren Delano III (1852 to 1920).
  • Sara (1854 to 1941), who married James Roosevelt on October 7, 1880.
  • Philippe de Lannoy Delano (1857 to 1881).
  • Catherine Robbins (born 1860), who married Charles Albert Robbins in 1882. Robbins belonged to the New York drug firm of Olcott and McKesson, later McKesson & Robbins.
  • Frederic Adrian (1863 to 1953).
  • Laura Franklin (1864 to 1884).

The genealogy identifies Dora's husband as "William Howell Forbes of Hong Kong China" and records that he died on July 9, 1896.30 Forbes's appendix lists a W. Howell Forbes who entered Russell and Company in 1860 and remained a partner.35 A Hong Kong bankruptcy petition of July 1891 names a "W. H. Forbes" and a "J. M. Forbes" among the partners of Russell and Company trading under that style.36 The Hong Kong Daily Press of December 10, 1891 names William Howell Forbes as the senior partner of the firm in the bankruptcy proceedings, and the Massachusetts Historical Society's genealogy of the Forbes family gives William Howell Forbes (1837 to 1896) as a son of Paul Siemen Forbes, who lived in China.37 The Roosevelt Library's finding aid lists "Forbes, William H. (Dora's first husband)" and "Forbes, Paul R. (Dora's second husband)."38

Sara Delano Roosevelt

Sara Delano was born on September 21, 1854 and married James Roosevelt on October 7, 1880. Their son Franklin Delano was born in 1882.30 Additional Delano family material given to the Roosevelt Library by the President and other donors is filed with the Roosevelt family papers.39

Franklin Hughes Delano

Franklin Hughes Delano, Warren's younger brother, was born on July 27, 1813. He became a partner of Grinnell, Minturn and Company, a New York shipping house, in January 1839, and he served as consul for Chile at New York from 1840 until 1851.40 On September 17, 1844 he married Laura Astor, a daughter of William Backhouse Astor. The couple received a portion of the Astor estate at Rokeby near Barrytown, New York, where they built the house called Steen Valetje around 1850.41

Franklin Delano died at Monte Carlo on December 23, 1893, and his wife died there in 1902.41 The finding aid lists his correspondence with John Murray Forbes and Robert Bennet Forbes of Boston about shipping ventures in the 1840s, and with Francis S. Hathaway of New Bedford.40

Frederic Adrian Delano

Frederic Adrian Delano, the son of Warren II, was born at Hong Kong on September 10, 1863, and married Matilda Annis Peasley at Chicago on November 22, 1888.30 He graduated from Harvard University in 1885 and joined the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, where he became superintendent of freight terminals, superintendent of motive power in 1899, and in 1901 vice president and general manager of the lines east of the Missouri River, a post he resigned in the latter part of 1904.42

The Wabash and the Gould roads

In April 1905 Delano was elected president of the Wabash-Pittsburg Terminal Railway and vice president in charge of all Wabash properties, with Henry Miller as general manager.42 The wire reports of the election described the appointment as part of the reorganization of the roads of George J. Gould.43 On October 5, 1905 the directors of the Wabash, among them Gould, Edgar T. Welles, Thomas H. Hubbard, John T. Terry, Winslow S. Pierce and E. T. Jeffery, removed the president, Joseph Ramsey Jr., "on the ground that he had made an attack upon the railroad," and elected the first vice president, F. A. Delano, to succeed him. Delano had already succeeded Ramsey as president of the Wabash-Pittsburg Terminal and of the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway.44 Engineering News reported the election on November 2, 1905, and the directors re-elected him in October 1908.4546 A court record of 1907 states that "The defendant Frederic A. Delano is president of the said defendant The Wabash Railroad Company."47

The annual reports for the fiscal years 1909, 1911, 1912 and 1913 list him as president. The reports of 1912 and 1913 list Delano, William K. Bixby and Edward B. Pryor as receivers; the directors include George J. Gould, Robert Goelet, H. Rogers Winthrop, Winslow S. Pierce and Edward T. Jeffery.48 He was made receiver in December 1911 and served with Pryor and Bixby under Judge Elmer B. Adams for the last two years.49 When he left, he wrote to Judge Adams that "the program of necessary improvement and betterment undertaken at an early stage of the Wabash receivership has been substantially completed," and the judge called him an "honest, faithful and efficient public servant." The Traffic World of December 27, 1913 reported his election as president of the Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville Railway, the Monon, in succession to Fairfax Harrison, who had become president of the Southern Railway.50 The papers of Frederic A. Delano date his resignation of the presidency to August 10, 1914, on his appointment to the Board.51

The Federal Reserve Board

Delano took office as vice governor of the Federal Reserve Board on August 10, 1914, for a six-year term, and held the vice governorship until August 9, 1916.51 The Board's January 1916 bulletin lists him as "FREDERIC A. DELANO, Vice Governor," with Charles S. Hamlin as governor, and the Board's order of March 6, 1916 names "Mr. Hamlin, Governor; Mr. Delano, Vice Governor." The report for 1916 is signed by William P. G. Harding as governor, Paul M. Warburg as vice governor, and Delano as a member.5253 His resignation was the first change in the membership of the Board. The July 1918 bulletin states that "Mr. Delano has served two years as vice governor of the Board and for nearly two years additional as member," and that he resigned to serve with the United States Army Corps of Engineers on military railways in France.54 He was later a Class C director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond from 1921 and its chairman from March to December 1936.55

The Red River receivership

From April 1920 to June 1, 1925 Delano served as the receiver appointed by the Supreme Court of the United States in Oklahoma v. Texas, the Red River Boundary Case, over the oil lands in the disputed river bed; his papers include photographs of the lands and records for 1920 to 1928.56

The League of Nations commission on opium in Persia

In December 1925 Delano became president of the League of Nations Commission of Enquiry into the Production of Opium in Persia. The League's own listing, reproduced in a study published by the Rockefeller-founded Bureau of Social Hygiene, names the commission as "composed of Mr. Frederic A. Delano (United States of America), a former member of the Federal Reserve Board, Chairman; Dr. Fridiano Cavara (Italy) ... and M. Victor Cayla (France)."57 The historian Arnold H. Taylor writes that Elizabeth Washburn Wright, after approaching seven or eight others including Owen D. Young and Norman Davis, secured Delano; that the Bureau of Social Hygiene underwrote the project; that his staff were J. B. Knight and Archibald MacLeish; and that the commission traveled in Persia from March 24 to June 6, 1926 and recommended a three-year preparation followed by annual reductions of ten percent, with no loan.58 Delano's papers include his diary and MacLeish's, letters to his wife from Geneva, and two drafts of the report to the Council, one by each.59 In 1927 Delano wrote to the League about the commission's findings.60 The commission's report to the Council, C.580.M.219.1926.XI, is dated December 1926 and states that it is "possible and practically feasible, and to the economic interest of Persia, to adopt a programme for the gradual diminution of the cultivation of the opium poppy."61 According to Taylor, the Bureau of Social Hygiene pledged to underwrite the project and supplied an additional 100,000 francs after the Assembly halved the appropriation, and a State Department memorandum by Allen Dulles records a conversation with Delano on December 22, 1925.62

The columnist Westbrook Pegler wrote in December 1945 that Warren Delano was "the old Canton opium smuggler, who founded the Delano fortune in this trade," and that Frederic Delano and other Delanos still held financial interests in a coal property and company town at Vintondale in Cambria County, Pennsylvania.63 Frederic's papers carry subject files for the Samuel Russell Company, the Vinton Colliery Company and the Brookings and Carnegie institutions.64

The Regional Plan, the Capital Park Commission and the National Resources Planning Board

On May 10, 1922 the trustees of the Russell Sage Foundation named a committee on a plan of New York and its environs, composed of Charles Dyer Norton as chairman, Robert W. de Forest, Delano, John M. Glenn, Dwight W. Morrow and Frank L. Polk; Delano was a trustee of the Foundation.65 After Norton's death in 1923 Delano became chairman, and the committee of 1925 consisted of Delano, de Forest, Polk, Glenn, Frederic B. Pratt, Morrow and Lawson Purdy, with Thomas Adams as general director of plans and surveys.66 The first volume, The Graphic Regional Plan (1929), lists the committee under "Frederic A. Delano, Chairman," adds John H. Finley, Henry James and George McAneny, and is signed by Delano. It is dedicated to Norton.67 Engineering News-Record reported that the work cost about $1,000,000, all paid by the Russell Sage Foundation, and covered 436 cities and towns in 22 counties, and that the plan was presented on May 27, 1929.68 A British architectural journal described him in August 1929 as "a former railway president and member of the Federal Reserve Board."69

In 1927 President Coolidge appointed Delano president of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, while the 1953 obituary in Planning magazine gives his chairmanship of the commission as 1924 to 1942,70 and in 1933 Franklin D. Roosevelt named him chairman of the National Resources Planning Board for ten years.51 The National Archives guide describes the sequence: the National Planning Board was established within the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works on July 20, 1933; it was superseded by the National Resources Board under Executive Order 6777 on June 30, 1934; and that board was replaced by the National Resources Committee under Executive Order 7065 on June 7, 1935. The National Resources Planning Board was established by Reorganization Plan No. I of 1939, effective July 1, 1939, and abolished on August 31, 1943 by 57 Stat. 169. Delano served from July 1933 to August 1943, chairing the National Planning Board in 1933 and 1934 and the National Resources Planning Board from 1939.3 In 1937 the proceedings of the National Planning Conference list him as Vice-Chairman of the National Resources Committee.71 In the Senate on May 27, 1943 Senator Robert A. Taft opposed an increase in the Board's appropriation, and Senator Charles L. McNary had read into the Record Delano's letter of May 26, 1943 calling a book by the Brookings economist Harold G. Moulton "false in detail and deliberately misleading in purpose."72 The appropriation act of June 26, 1943 abolished the Board effective August 31, 1943 and provided that its functions "shall not be transferred to any other agency."73 A profile of April 2, 1943 describes him at 79 as an uncle of the President, and credits the board with the "cradle-to-grave" social security plan then recently announced.74

He was a citizen regent of the Smithsonian Institution. His term expired on January 21, 1935, and he was reappointed by joint resolution approved August 7, 1935.75 A joint resolution approved August 21, 1941 reappointed him for six years, and the Executive Committee of the Regents that year consisted of Delano, Vannevar Bush and Clarence Cannon.76

China Defense Supplies, Inc. was the Chinese purchasing and supply agency in the United States through which lend-lease aid to China was requisitioned. The Army's history of the American Volunteer Group states that the board of directors of China Defense Supplies "included both Franklin Delano, the President's uncle, and Washington lawyer Thomas Corcoran."77 Sterling Seagrave wrote that "One of the directors of China Defense Supplies was Frederic Delano, the President's uncle," Daniel Ford wrote that Delano "signed on as honorary counselor," and John Pomfret wrote that he was made honorary chairman.78 An Air University history lists the roster as including "FDR's cousin Frederick T. Delano, head" without saying whether that is Frederic Adrian Delano.79

Lyman Delano and the Atlantic Coast Line

Lyman Delano, the son of Warren III and Jennie Walters, was born at Newburgh in 1883, in July according to the genealogy and on January 16 according to the biographical notice of 1932.480 He graduated from Harvard in 1906, worked for Stone and Webster until 1910, and entered the Atlantic Coast Line in 1910 as a clerk and assistant to the chief engineer. He became assistant to the president in January 1912, third vice president in November 1914, and first vice president about two years later. From June 1918 to March 1, 1920 he was federal manager of the road, and on March 1, 1920 he became executive vice president.4 In August 1916 he was "third vice-president and head of the Operating Department."81

On January 9, 1932 Railway Age reported his election as chairman of the Atlantic Coast Line, succeeding the late Henry Walters, who died on November 30, 1931, and also in the chairmanship of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad.4

In the Supreme Court case over the Atlanta, Birmingham and Coast Railroad, the receiver B. L. Bugg testified that he had suggested the purchase of the old Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic to the Atlantic Coast Line's executive vice president, Lyman Delano, in December 1924. The bondholders' agreement is dated February 23, 1926. Of the new company's 150,000 shares of common stock, 149,995 stood in the name of the Atlantic Coast Line and one share each in the names of Delano, George B. Elliott, Bugg, J. L. Edwards and R. C. Alston, who formed its board.82

Warren Delano III and the Union Mining Company

Warren Delano III was born at Algonac in 1852 and graduated from Harvard University in 1874. He joined the management of the Union Mining Company at Mount Savage, Maryland, and married Jennie Walters, a daughter of William Thompson Walters, at Baltimore on July 11, 1876.80 He had mining, banking and railroad interests and bred horses at Steen Valetje. He was killed on September 9, 1920, when his horse ran into the path of a train at Barrytown. At his death he was a director of the Union Mining Company, president of the Delano Coal Company and chairman of the board of the Vinton Colliery Company.33

In August and September 1899 Warren III and H. A. deWindt kept diaries of a trip to Wyoming and Yellowstone, and Warren III's brother Frederic A. and his son Lyman accompanied them.33

Eugene and Moreau Delano of Brown Brothers

The genealogy also prints a Delano line descended from Obadiah Delano through Moreau Delano (died New York, 1870), under the heading "Delano Line Unknown," and does not connect it to Philippe de la Noye. Moreau's son Eugene Delano is described as a member of the firm of "Brown Bros.," bankers at 59 Wall Street in New York. He married Susan Magoun Adams at Philadelphia on February 8, 1872. Their children included William Adams (born January 21, 1874, Yale 1895), Moreau (born June 14, 1877, Yale 1897) and Eugene (born February 26, 1887).83

Eugene Delano died on April 2, 1920. The Board of Tax Appeals docket of 1928 names Moreau Delano and William A. Delano as executors of his estate, with James Crosby Brown as a party, concerning income of $209,788.09 from the partnership of Brown Brothers & Company due to Eugene in 1920.84 A bankers' directory of June 1918 lists "Moreau Delano, Brown Brothers & Co.," which places Eugene's son Moreau in the firm that became Brown Brothers Harriman.85 A Moreau Delano Brown, born March 30, 1905 to Thatcher Magoun Brown and Caro Lord Noyes, bears the same given names.86 The architect William Adams Delano of the firm Delano and Aldrich shares the name of Eugene's son born in 1874, and the sources give no connection between the two.83

Family papers

The Roosevelt Library's Delano family papers cover 1568 to 1919, occupy 22.1 linear feet (about 55,000 pages), and are arranged in four sections: the papers of Franklin Hughes Delano, of Warren Delano II, of Warren Delano III, and other family papers.39 The papers of Warren II came to Warren III from Annie Delano Hitch in 1899.39 The Papers of Frederic A. Delano, 1812 to 1959, occupy 12 linear feet and were given by his daughters Catherine Delano Grant and Laura Delano Houghteling. They include material on the Red River receivership, the Persia commission, the Regional Plan, the Smithsonian, and subject files on the Samuel Russell Company, China Defense Supplies and the Tennessee Valley Authority.64

Relationships 19

Employed by
Took part in
  • Opium War, 1839–1842, Warren Delano Jr. remained at Canton and Macao and acted as vice-consul of the United States25
Relative of
Spouse of
  • William Howell Forbes, from 186730
Head of
  • Wabash Railroad, 1905–1911, president (Frederic Adrian Delano), succeeding Joseph Ramsey Jr.44
  • Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville Railway, 1913–1914, president (Frederic Adrian Delano) until his appointment to the Federal Reserve Board50
  • Regional Plan of New York and Its Environs, 1923–1929, chairman of the committee after Charles D. Norton (Frederic Adrian Delano)67
  • League of Nations, 1925–1927, chairman of the Commission of Enquiry into the Production of Opium in Persia (Frederic Adrian Delano)57
  • Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, from 1932, chairman (Lyman Delano), succeeding Henry Walters4
  • Louisville and Nashville Railroad, from 1932, chairman (Lyman Delano), succeeding Henry Walters4
  • National Resources Planning Board, 1939–1943, chairman (Frederic Adrian Delano)3
Appointed
  • Wabash Railroad, 1911–1913, receiver (Frederic Adrian Delano), with Edward B. Pryor and William K. Bixby50
  • Federal Reserve Board, 1914–1916, vice governor (Frederic Adrian Delano)52
  • Supreme Court of the United States, 1920–1925, receiver of the disputed Red River lands in Oklahoma v. Texas (Frederic Adrian Delano)56
Member of
  • Federal Reserve Board, 1916–1918, member (Frederic Adrian Delano), resigned for service with the Army Engineer Corps in France54
Director of
  • Russell Sage Foundation, from 1922, trustee and member of the committee on the Regional Plan of New York (Frederic Adrian Delano)65
  • Smithsonian Institution, from 1935, citizen regent, reappointed 1935 and 1941 (Frederic Adrian Delano)75

Sources

  1. Joel Andrews Delano, The Genealogy, History and Alliances of the American House of Delano, 1621 to 1899 (1899), pt. 1-3, the Philippe de la Noye entry, pp. 49-51 (the Fortune, 1621; his five sons Philip Jr., Dr. Thomas, John, Lt. Jonathan and Samuel). https://archive.org/details/genealogyhistory46dela ↩
  2. Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, finding aid for the Delano Family Papers, 1568 to 1919, biographical sketch of Warren Delano II, pp. 1-2 of the PDF. https://www.fdrlibrary.org/documents/356632/390886/findingaid_delanofamily.pdf ↩
  3. National Archives, Guide to the Records of Federal Agencies, Record Group 187, §187.3 and §187.3.2. https://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/187.html ↩
  4. Railway Age, January 9, 1932, vol. 92, no. 2, p. 89, the election of Lyman Delano as chairman of the Atlantic Coast Line and the Louisville and Nashville. ↩
  5. Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, finding aid for the Delano Family Papers, 1568 to 1919, biographical sketch, p. 1 of the PDF. https://www.fdrlibrary.org/documents/356632/390886/findingaid_delanofamily.pdf ↩
  6. Joel Andrews Delano, The Genealogy, History and Alliances of the American House of Delano, 1621 to 1899 (1899), pt. 4-6, the George De Lano entry, Cooper, Michigan, p. 453, the desk "said to have been by Philippe brought on the 'Fortune' 1621." https://archive.org/details/genealogyhistory46dela ↩
  7. William Bradford, History of Plymouth Plantation, 1912 edition (Massachusetts Historical Society), vol. II, p. 285 (the list of purchasers of December 1, 1640) and p. 11 n. (the 1628 sale, citing Plymouth Colony Records xii. 7). https://archive.org/details/historyofplymout02brad ↩
  8. Joel Andrews Delano, The Genealogy, History and Alliances of the American House of Delano, 1621 to 1899 (1899), pt. 4-6, the Lt. Jonathan Delano entry, pp. 293-294; the Thomas Delano 1st and Capt. Ephraim Delano 1st entries, pp. 483-500; and the Capt. Warren Delano entry with his children, pp. 503-505. https://archive.org/details/genealogyhistory46dela ↩
  9. Logbook of the Phillipe De La Noye (Ship) of Fairhaven and Cicero (Ship) of New Bedford, kept by William Childs, catalog description of the voyage of September 6, 1852 to November 13, 1854 under David G. Pierce. https://archive.org/details/logbookofphillip00unse ↩
  10. Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, finding aid for the Papers of Frederic A. Delano, 1812 to 1959, series VI, logs of the Philippe de la Noye, a whaler owned by the Delano family, 1848 to 1855. https://www.fdrlibrary.org/documents/356632/390886/findingaid_freddelano.pdf ↩
  11. Joel Andrews Delano, The Genealogy, History and Alliances of the American House of Delano, 1621 to 1899 (1899), pt. 1-3, the Dr. Thomas Delano entry, p. 155; the Jonathan Delano Sr. entry, p. 188; the Jonathan Delano 2d entry, pp. 209-210; and the Samuel Delano Sr. entry with Capt. Amasa Delano, born February 21, 1763, pp. 210-212. https://archive.org/details/genealogyhistory46dela ↩
  12. Amasa Delano, A Narrative of Voyages and Travels, in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres (Boston, 1817), "Biographical Sketch," pp. 577-580 (born at Duxbury on February 21, 1763, the son of Samuel Delano and a Drew mother, with a brother Amasa in Rogers' Rangers). https://archive.org/details/anarrativevoyag00delagoog ↩
  13. Amasa Delano, A Narrative of Voyages and Travels, in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres (Boston, 1817), chapter XVIII, "Particulars of the Capture of the Spanish Ship Tryal, at the island of St. Maria," pp. 319-320, the Perseverance journal for February 13 and 20, 1805. https://archive.org/details/anarrativevoyag00delagoog ↩
  14. Amasa Delano, A Narrative of Voyages and Travels, in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres (Boston, 1817), pp. 335 and 343-344, the notary's certificate and Delano's declaration. https://archive.org/details/anarrativevoyag00delagoog ↩
  15. Amasa Delano, A Narrative of Voyages and Travels, in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres (Boston, 1817), pp. 352-353, the letter of the King of Spain through the consul at Boston and Delano's reply of August 8, 1807. https://archive.org/details/anarrativevoyag00delagoog ↩
  16. Herman Melville, "Benito Cereno," in The Piazza Tales (1856), opening paragraph. https://archive.org/details/piazzatales00melvuoft ↩
  17. Robert Bennet Forbes, Personal Reminiscences (1882), appendix, pp. 355-357 (partnership dates of Warren Delano Jr. and the 1844 firm). https://archive.org/details/personalreminis01forbgoog ↩
  18. Robert Bennet Forbes, Personal Reminiscences (1882), p. 147 and the appendix journal of April 1, 1839, p. 351 ("Warren Delano, head cook"). https://archive.org/details/personalreminis01forbgoog ↩
  19. Robert Bennet Forbes, Personal Reminiscences (1882), pp. 150, 153 and 157 (Delano's joining Russell and Company; the co-operators Delano, A. A. Low, Edward King and W. C. Hunter; the departure of the Niantic). https://archive.org/details/personalreminis01forbgoog ↩
  20. W. C. Hunter, The "Fan Kwae" at Canton before Treaty Days, 1825-1844 (London, 1882), p. 157, the partnership terms and Delano's entry; Forbes's departure on the Niantic on July 7, 1840. https://archive.org/details/fankwaeatcanton00huntgoog ↩
  21. W. C. Hunter, The "Fan Kwae" at Canton before Treaty Days, 1825-1844 (London, 1882), p. 147, the Chesapeake. https://archive.org/details/fankwaeatcanton00huntgoog ↩
  22. W. C. Hunter, The "Fan Kwae" at Canton before Treaty Days, 1825-1844 (London, 1882), p. 150, the cotton orders sent to India on Houqua's behalf. https://archive.org/details/fankwaeatcanton00huntgoog ↩
  23. The Chinese Repository, vol. VIII (December 1839), p. 432, Commissioner Lin's edict as translated. ↩
  24. The Chinese Repository, vol. VIII (January 1840), p. 482, the letter of thanks of a shipwrecked captain. ↩
  25. The Chinese Repository, vol. IX (September 1840), p. 628, the departure of the consul Snow and the acting vice-consulship. ↩
  26. The Chinese Repository, vol. IX (May 1840), Journal of Occurrences, petition of the American merchants at Canton, April 25, 1840. ↩
  27. U.S. House of Representatives, 26th Congress, 1st session, H. Doc. 40, "Merchants of the United States at Canton, China. Memorial of R. B. Forbes and others," January 9, 1840, signature block dated Canton, May 25, 1839. https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/SERIALSET-00364_00_00-030-0040-0000 ↩
  28. Robert Bennet Forbes, Personal Reminiscences (1882), pp. 157-158 (Russell and Company's operations for Houqua between January and July 1840) and p. 161 (the pledge made by Mr. Green). https://archive.org/details/personalreminis01forbgoog ↩
  29. Robert Bennet Forbes, Personal Reminiscences (1882), pp. 166-168 and p. 356 (the 1846 return of Edward Delano). https://archive.org/details/personalreminis01forbgoog ↩
  30. Joel Andrews Delano, The Genealogy, History and Alliances of the American House of Delano, 1621 to 1899 (1899), pt. 4-6, the Warren Delano 2d entry, pp. 504-506. https://archive.org/details/genealogyhistory46dela ↩
  31. Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, finding aid for the Delano Family Papers, 1568 to 1919, series descriptions and biographical sketch (Algonac, the losses of 1857, the 1859 return to China). https://www.fdrlibrary.org/documents/356632/390886/findingaid_delanofamily.pdf ↩
  32. Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, finding aid for the Delano Family Papers, 1568 to 1919, series 10 (story by Elizabeth Babcock, 1862, for travelers on the Surprise bound for China), and Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, finding aid for the Papers of Frederic A. Delano, 1812 to 1959, series VI (Catherine R. Delano's journal on the clipper Surprise, New York to Hong Kong, 1862). https://www.fdrlibrary.org/documents/356632/390886/findingaid_delanofamily.pdf ↩
  33. Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, finding aid for the Delano Family Papers, 1568 to 1919, series 9 and the biographical sketch of Warren Delano III. https://www.fdrlibrary.org/documents/356632/390886/findingaid_delanofamily.pdf ↩
  34. Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, finding aid for the Delano Family Papers, 1568 to 1919, series 5, the papers of Warren Delano II (general correspondence 1830 to 1891; "Houqua Accounts and Memoranda, 1865-1867"; "Russell and Company, Typescript copies of letters to Members of, 1840-1841"). https://www.fdrlibrary.org/documents/356632/390886/findingaid_delanofamily.pdf ↩
  35. Robert Bennet Forbes, Personal Reminiscences (1882), appendix, pp. 356-357 (W. Howell Forbes entered the house in 1860 and was a partner). https://archive.org/details/personalreminis01forbgoog ↩
  36. Hong Kong Daily Press, July 22, 1891, p. 2, "In Bankruptcy," petition concerning Russell and Company. https://archive.org/details/NPDP18910722 ↩
  37. Hong Kong Daily Press, December 10, 1891, "In Bankruptcy," report of the Official Assignee on Charles Alexander Tomes (William Howell Forbes "the senior partner at the firm"); Massachusetts Historical Society, Forbes Family Papers, 1732-1931 (Ms. N-49), collection guide, condensed genealogy of the Forbes family. https://www.masshist.org/collection-guides/view/fa0269 ↩
  38. Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, finding aid for the Delano Family Papers, 1568 to 1919, series 9, correspondents ("Forbes, William H. (Dora's first husband)"; "Forbes, Paul R. (Dora's second husband)"). https://www.fdrlibrary.org/documents/356632/390886/findingaid_delanofamily.pdf ↩
  39. Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, finding aid for the Delano Family Papers, 1568 to 1919, summary description and series list. https://www.fdrlibrary.org/documents/356632/390886/findingaid_delanofamily.pdf ↩
  40. Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, finding aid for the Delano Family Papers, 1568 to 1919, biographical sketch of Franklin Hughes Delano and series 1. https://www.fdrlibrary.org/documents/356632/390886/findingaid_delanofamily.pdf ↩
  41. Joel Andrews Delano, The Genealogy, History and Alliances of the American House of Delano, 1621 to 1899 (1899), pt. 4-6, the Capt. Warren Delano entry, pp. 504-505 (Franklin Hughes, born July 27, 1813, died at Monte Carlo December 23, 1893; married September 17, 1844 Laura Astor). https://archive.org/details/genealogyhistory46dela ↩
  42. Railroad Gazette, April 28, 1905, the election of F. A. Delano and the account of his career. ↩
  43. Oakland Tribune, April 24, 1905, wire report on the Wabash-Pittsburg Terminal election. ↩
  44. Chicago Daily Tribune, October 6, 1905, p. 1, the removal of Joseph Ramsey Jr. and the election of F. A. Delano as president of the Wabash. ↩
  45. Engineering News, November 2, 1905, the election of Delano as president of the Wabash. ↩
  46. Fort Wayne Sentinel, October 13, 1908, the re-election of Delano as president of the Wabash. ↩
  47. In re Pollitz (1907), record: "The defendant Frederic A. Delano is president of the said defendant The Wabash Railroad Company." ↩
  48. Wabash Railroad Company, Annual Reports for the fiscal years 1909, 1911, 1912 and 1913 (St. Louis: Woodward and Tiernan), lists of directors, officers and receivers. https://archive.org/details/annualreportdir04railgoog ↩
  49. Engineering Record, August 8, 1914, vol. 70, no. 6, "Frederic A. Delano Nominated for Federal Reserve Board" (receivership "In December, 1911"). https://archive.org/details/engineering-record_1914-08-08_70_6_0 ↩
  50. Traffic World, December 27, 1913, pp. 1213-1214, the election of Delano as president of the Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville Railway and Judge Adams's letter. ↩
  51. Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, finding aid for the Papers of Frederic A. Delano, 1812 to 1959, biographical note. https://www.fdrlibrary.org/documents/356632/390886/findingaid_freddelano.pdf ↩
  52. Federal Reserve Board, Federal Reserve Bulletin, January 1916, Board roster. https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/files/docs/publications/FRB/1910s/frb_011916.pdf ↩
  53. Federal Reserve Board, Third Annual Report (for 1916), p. 31 (signature block) and p. 124 (order of March 6, 1916). https://archive.org/details/annualreportfed00boargoog ↩
  54. Federal Reserve Board, Federal Reserve Bulletin, vol. 4, no. 7 (July 1, 1918), p. 587, "Resignation of the Federal Reserve Board." https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/files/docs/publications/FRB/1910s/frb_071918.pdf ↩
  55. Federal Reserve History, "Frederic A. Delano," biographical profile (Richmond Class C director, 1921; chairman of the Richmond bank, March to December 1936). https://www.federalreservehistory.org/people/frederic_a_delano ↩
  56. Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, finding aid for the Papers of Frederic A. Delano, 1812 to 1959, series II, 1920 to 1928 (receiver in Oklahoma v. Texas, the Red River Boundary Case, April 1920 to June 1, 1925). https://www.fdrlibrary.org/documents/356632/390886/findingaid_freddelano.pdf ↩
  57. Edward Terry and Mabel Pellens, The Opium Problem (Bureau of Social Hygiene, 1928), pp. 720-721. https://archive.org/details/opiumproblem00terr ↩
  58. Arnold H. Taylor, American Diplomacy and the Narcotics Traffic, 1900-1939 (Durham: Duke University Press, 1969), pp. 223 and 312-314. https://archive.org/details/americandiplomac02tayl ↩
  59. Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, finding aid for the Papers of Frederic A. Delano, 1812 to 1959, Persia opium commission files, 1925 to 1927 (diaries of Delano and Archibald MacLeish; the "Delano Draft" and "MacLeish Draft" of the report to the Council). https://www.fdrlibrary.org/documents/356632/390886/findingaid_freddelano.pdf ↩
  60. The United States Daily, July 6, 1927, Delano's letter to the League of Nations. ↩
  61. Elizabeth P. MacCallum, Twenty Years of Persian Opium (1908-1928) (Foreign Policy Association, 1928), Annex III, p. 44, extract from the Report of the League Commission of Enquiry into the Production of Opium in Persia, December 1926. https://archive.org/details/20yearsofpersian00macc ↩
  62. Arnold H. Taylor, American Diplomacy and the Narcotics Traffic, 1900-1939 (Duke University Press, 1969), pp. 312-313 and note 39. https://archive.org/details/americandiplomac02tayl ↩
  63. Westbrook Pegler, column distributed by King Features Syndicate, Hope Star (Hope, Arkansas), December 5, 1945. ↩
  64. Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, finding aid for the Papers of Frederic A. Delano, 1812 to 1959, subject files (Samuel Russell Company, Vinton Colliery Company, China Defense Supplies, Brookings Institution, Carnegie Institution, Tennessee Valley Authority). https://www.fdrlibrary.org/documents/356632/390886/findingaid_freddelano.pdf ↩
  65. Russell Sage Foundation, Plan of New York and Its Environs; the meeting of May 10, 1922. https://archive.org/details/planofnewyorkits00russ ↩
  66. Edward M. Bassett, Zoning Practice in the New York Region (Regional Plan of New York and Its Environs, 1925), committee roster. https://archive.org/details/zoningpracticein00bass_0 ↩
  67. Committee on the Regional Plan of New York and Its Environs, The Graphic Regional Plan (1929), roster and letter of presentation, pp. [9]-[11]. https://archive.org/details/graphicregionalp0000unse ↩
  68. Engineering News-Record, June 6, 1929, vol. 102, no. 23, account of the presentation of the Regional Plan on May 27, 1929. https://archive.org/details/sim_enr_1929-06-06_102_23 ↩
  69. Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects, August 18, 1929, vol. 36, no. 18. https://archive.org/details/sim_riba-journal_1929-08-18_36_18 ↩
  70. Planning, May 1953, vol. 19, no. 5, obituary of Frederic A. Delano (chairman of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission 1924 to 1942; appointed chairman of the National Planning Board in 1934). https://archive.org/details/sim_planning_1953-05_19_5 ↩
  71. National Conference on Planning, New Horizons in Planning (1937), listing "Frederic A. Delano, Vice-Chairman, National Resources Committee." https://archive.org/details/newhorizonsinpla00natirich ↩
  72. Congressional Record, vol. 89, Senate, May 27, 1943, pp. 4923-4926 and 4954. https://archive.org/details/sim_congressional-record-proceedings-and-debates_may-14-june-14-1943_89 ↩
  73. Act of June 26, 1943, ch. 145, 57 Stat. 169, 170. https://archive.org/details/us-stat ↩
  74. United States News, April 2, 1943, pp. 59-60. ↩
  75. Smithsonian Institution, Annual Report of the Board of Regents for the fiscal year 1936. https://archive.org/details/annual-report-board-of-regents-smithsonian_1936 ↩
  76. Smithsonian Institution, Annual Report of the Board of Regents for the fiscal year 1942, p. xi (the Executive Committee). https://archive.org/details/annual-report-board-of-regents-smithsonian_1942 ↩
  77. U.S. Army Center of Military History, The Flying Tigers: Chennault's American Volunteer Group in China, the account of CAMCO and China Defense Supplies. https://archive.org/details/TheFlyingTigers ↩
  78. Sterling Seagrave, The Soong Dynasty (1985); Daniel Ford, Flying Tigers: Claire Chennault and His American Volunteers, 1941-1942 (2007); John Pomfret, The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom (2016); Robert Schultz, The Maverick War: Chennault and the Flying Tigers, each on China Defense Supplies. https://archive.org/details/soongdynasty0000seag_t0v1 ; https://archive.org/details/flyingtigersclai0000ford ; https://archive.org/details/beautifulcountry0000pomf ; https://archive.org/details/maverickwarchenn00schu ↩
  79. American Angels: Forming the Lafayette Escadrille, RAF Eagles, and Flying Tigers (Air University, 2000), the account of China Defense Supplies, note 49. https://archive.org/details/DTIC_ADA384931 ↩
  80. Joel Andrews Delano, The Genealogy, History and Alliances of the American House of Delano, 1621 to 1899 (1899), pt. 4-6, the Warren Delano 3d entry, pp. 505-506. https://archive.org/details/genealogyhistory46dela ↩
  81. The Morning Star (Wilmington, North Carolina), August 31, 1916, p. 1. ↩
  82. Atlanta, Birmingham and Coast Railroad Co. v. United States, 296 U.S. 33 (1935), Transcript of Record, No. 9, testimony of B. L. Bugg and the corporate record of the A.B.&C. board. https://archive.org/details/micro_IA40386009_0266 ↩
  83. Joel Andrews Delano, The Genealogy, History and Alliances of the American House of Delano, 1621 to 1899 (1899), pt. 4-6, "Delano Line Unknown," the Moreau Delano and Eugene Delano entries, pp. 522-523. https://archive.org/details/genealogyhistory46dela ↩
  84. The United States Daily, March 7, 1928, Board of Tax Appeals docket: Moreau Delano and William A. Delano, executors of the estate of Eugene Delano, deceased. ↩
  85. Trust Companies, June 1918, vol. 26, no. 6, directory entry "Moreau Delano, Brown Brothers & Co." ↩
  86. Alexander Brown and His Descendants (1917), the entry for Moreau Delano Brown and the index. https://archive.org/details/alexanderbrownhi1917brow ↩

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