Curtis Bean Dall
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Anna's father was the 32nd U.S. president [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]], her mother the first lady [[Eleanor Roosevelt]]. After briefly attending Cornell University, she was married for the first time, in Hyde Park, [[New York]], on 25 June 1926 to stockbroker Curtis Bean Dall. 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. | Anna's father was the 32nd U.S. president [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]], her mother the first lady [[Eleanor Roosevelt]]. After briefly attending Cornell University, she was married for the first time, in Hyde Park, [[New York]], on 25 June 1926 to stockbroker Curtis Bean Dall. 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. | ||
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| + | Meanwhile, Curtis married secondly to Katharine Miller Leas in 1938, they had four surviving children: Katharine, Mary, Stephen and James. | ||
In the 1960s Curtis, an ardent conservative, was a member of the Christian Crusade National Advisory Board, and a member of the Executive Board of "We The People". | In the 1960s Curtis, an ardent conservative, was a member of the Christian Crusade National Advisory Board, and a member of the Executive Board of "We The People". | ||
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In 1968, his name was filed for the Presidential primaries in New Hampshire. In 1971, he was Chairman of the Liberty Lobby[3] | In 1968, his name was filed for the Presidential primaries in New Hampshire. In 1971, he was Chairman of the Liberty Lobby[3] | ||
| − | He died at the Hospice of Northern Virginia in Alexandria, [[Virginia]] in 28 Jun 1991, aged 95, but had last been a resident of Beaufort, Beaufort County, [[South Carolina]] where one of his daughters, Katherine lived. | + | He died at the Hospice of Northern Virginia in Alexandria, [[Virginia]] in 28 Jun 1991, aged 95, but had last been a resident of Beaufort, Beaufort County, [[South Carolina]] where one of his daughters, Katherine lived. He left to survive him, his second wife Katharine; Eleanor Seagraves of Washington and Curtis Roosevelt Dall of Majorca, Spain, both from his first marriage; and from his second marriage, Katharine Bolton of Beaufort, S.C., Mary Dunham of Newport, R.I., Stephen of Devon, Pa., and James of Portland, Ore. in addition to 10 grandchildren and one great-grandson. |
==Works== | ==Works== | ||
