Curtis Bean Dall
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''The original 1967 edition of F.D.R. My Exploited Father-in-Law, with it's page-numbering will be used as reference.'' | ''The original 1967 edition of F.D.R. My Exploited Father-in-Law, with it's page-numbering will be used as reference.'' | ||
| − | Curtis Bean Dall was born in Manhattan, New York City, [[New York]], the son of Charles Austen Dall and his wife Mary Bean, and grew up on a farm in Piscataway, [[New Jersey]]. He attended Princeton University[1], and served in the Navy during World War I. He became a stockbroker and was on the floor on Black Tuesday, the day of the 1929 Stock Market crash. He was elected Governor of the Associates of Stock Exchange Firm in 1932. He served in the army Air Force from 1940 until the close of World War II. | + | Curtis Bean Dall was born 24 Oct 1896 in Manhattan, New York City, [[New York]], the son of Charles Austen Dall and his wife Mary Bean, and grew up on a farm in Piscataway, [[New Jersey]]. He attended Princeton University[1], and served in the Navy during World War I. He became a stockbroker and was on the floor on Black Tuesday, the day of the 1929 Stock Market crash. He was elected Governor of the Associates of Stock Exchange Firm in 1932. He served in the army Air Force from 1940 until the close of World War II. |
Dall met his future first wife Anna in Dec. 1925 at a dinner party, given by Mr. and Mrs. Walter Douglas in their home on Fifth Avenue, New York. Anna's parents [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] and hiswife [[Eleanor Roosevelt]], would several years later become the 32nd U.S. president and the first lady. After briefly attending Cornell University, and after their three-month engagement (''F.D.R.'', p. 11) they were married, each for the first time, in Hyde Park, [[New York]], on 25 June 1926. They had two children: Anna Eleanor Roosevelt on 25 March 1927, and Curtis Roosevelt on 19 April 1930. "Mrs. Dall was divorced from her first husband, Curtis B. Dall, July 30, at Minden, [[Nevada|Nev]]." (Syracuse Herald, Jan 18, 1935, p 11) Six months after her divorce, on January 18, 1935, she married journalist John Boettiger. After his death on 31 October 1950, she married (3) 11 November 1952 at Malibu, [[California]], as his second wife, James Addison Halsted. | Dall met his future first wife Anna in Dec. 1925 at a dinner party, given by Mr. and Mrs. Walter Douglas in their home on Fifth Avenue, New York. Anna's parents [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] and hiswife [[Eleanor Roosevelt]], would several years later become the 32nd U.S. president and the first lady. After briefly attending Cornell University, and after their three-month engagement (''F.D.R.'', p. 11) they were married, each for the first time, in Hyde Park, [[New York]], on 25 June 1926. They had two children: Anna Eleanor Roosevelt on 25 March 1927, and Curtis Roosevelt on 19 April 1930. "Mrs. Dall was divorced from her first husband, Curtis B. Dall, July 30, at Minden, [[Nevada|Nev]]." (Syracuse Herald, Jan 18, 1935, p 11) Six months after her divorce, on January 18, 1935, she married journalist John Boettiger. After his death on 31 October 1950, she married (3) 11 November 1952 at Malibu, [[California]], as his second wife, James Addison Halsted. | ||
