Young Franklin Roosevelt, with his father and Helen R. Roosevelt, sailing in 1899.
Roosevelt grew up in an atmosphere of privilege. Sara was a possessive mother, while James was an elderly and remote father . Sara was the dominant influence in Franklins early years. Frequent trips to Europe made Roosevelt conversant in German and French. He learned to ride, shoot, row, and play polo and lawn tennis.
Roosevelt went to Groton School, an Episcopal boarding school in Massachusetts. He was heavily influenced by its headmaster, Endicott Peabody, who preached the duty of Christians to help the less fortunate and urged his students to enter public service. Roosevelt went to Harvard, where he lived in luxurious quarters and was a member of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. While at Harvard, his fifth cousin Theodore Roosevelt became president, and Theodores vigorous leadership style and reforming zeal made him Franklins role model and hero. In 1902, he met his future wife Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, Theodores niece, at a White House reception. Eleanor and Franklin were fifth cousins, once removed. They were both descended from Claes Martensz van Rosenvelt , who arrived in New Amsterdam from the Netherlands in the 1640s. Roosevelts two grandsons, Johannes and Jacobus, began the Long Island and Hudson River branches of the Roosevelt family, respectively. Eleanor and Theodore Roosevelt were descended from the Johannes branch, while FDR came from the Jacobus branch.
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