ANNA ROOSEVELT HALSTED
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'Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Halsted' (May 3, 1906 – December 1, 1975), also 'Anna Dall' and 'Anna Boettiger' in earlier marriages, was the first child of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. She was named for her mother and grandmother, Anna Roosevelt and was usually called 'Anna' or 'Sis'.
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, Jr. was born at 125 E. 36th St. in New York City. Caught in a triad of three strong willed people — her mother, father, and grandmother, the domineering Sara Roosevelt — young Anna Eleanor had to grow up quickly. Anna's father later became the 32nd U.S. president, her mother the famous first lady. After briefly attending Cornell University, she was married for the first time, in Hyde Park, New York, in 1926 to stockbroker Curtis Bean Dall. They had two children: Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, usually known as "Sisty" on March 25, 1927, and Curtis Roosevelt on April 19, 1930. "Mrs. Dall was divorced from her first husband, Curtis B. Dall, July 30, at Minden, Nev." (''Syracuse Herald'', Jan 18, 1935, p 11) Six months after her divorce, on Jan 18, 1935, she married 34-year-old journalist (Clarence) John Boettiger. Her second husband had recently resigned from the ''Chicago Tribune'', and signed on with the Will H. Hays organization, the Motion Picture Producers of America. With her second husband, she had a son, John Roosevelt Boettiger in 1939. They divorced in 1949, and he committed suicide the following year. She married Dr. James Addison Halsted in 1952.
In 1944, at her father's request, Anna moved into the White House to serve as an assistant to the President and as White House hostess during her mother's frequent absences. Anna, who accompanied her father on the trip to Yalta, was a witness to many historic moments, but she also carried the burden of dealing with some of the most intimate and painful decisions of her parents during their dysfunctional marriage.
Anna was active as a writer and journalist, and she served as editor of the woman's page of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer for several years. Anna devoted much of her later life to problems of education and to carrying on many of her mother's interests and philanthropies. She was an active supporter of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
She died of throat cancer at the age of 69, in New York City and is interred at Hyde Park, New York.
★ Franklin D. Roosevelt, father
★ Eleanor Roosevelt, mother
★ Sara Delano Roosevelt, grandmother
★ Eleanor Seagraves, daughter
★ Curtis Roosevelt, son
★ The Franklin D Roosevelt Library at NARA has recently "...received correspondence between Curtis B. Dall, Anna Roosevelt's first husband, and the Roosevelt family, donated by his daughter Mary Dall Twichell...."[1]
★ The New York State Archives has 34 linear feet of the Anna Roosevelt papers.[2]
1. http://www.archives.gov/research/accessions/
2. http://www.archives.nysed.gov/a/researchroom/rr_health_mh_recguide.shtml
★ National Park Service bio
★ ''Syracuse Herald'', Jan 18, 1935. p 11 "Anna Dall marries"
★ the Cemetery Project
| Contents |
| Biography |
| See also |
| Further reading |
| Notes |
| Resources |
| External links |
Biography
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, Jr. was born at 125 E. 36th St. in New York City. Caught in a triad of three strong willed people — her mother, father, and grandmother, the domineering Sara Roosevelt — young Anna Eleanor had to grow up quickly. Anna's father later became the 32nd U.S. president, her mother the famous first lady. After briefly attending Cornell University, she was married for the first time, in Hyde Park, New York, in 1926 to stockbroker Curtis Bean Dall. They had two children: Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, usually known as "Sisty" on March 25, 1927, and Curtis Roosevelt on April 19, 1930. "Mrs. Dall was divorced from her first husband, Curtis B. Dall, July 30, at Minden, Nev." (''Syracuse Herald'', Jan 18, 1935, p 11) Six months after her divorce, on Jan 18, 1935, she married 34-year-old journalist (Clarence) John Boettiger. Her second husband had recently resigned from the ''Chicago Tribune'', and signed on with the Will H. Hays organization, the Motion Picture Producers of America. With her second husband, she had a son, John Roosevelt Boettiger in 1939. They divorced in 1949, and he committed suicide the following year. She married Dr. James Addison Halsted in 1952.
In 1944, at her father's request, Anna moved into the White House to serve as an assistant to the President and as White House hostess during her mother's frequent absences. Anna, who accompanied her father on the trip to Yalta, was a witness to many historic moments, but she also carried the burden of dealing with some of the most intimate and painful decisions of her parents during their dysfunctional marriage.
Anna was active as a writer and journalist, and she served as editor of the woman's page of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer for several years. Anna devoted much of her later life to problems of education and to carrying on many of her mother's interests and philanthropies. She was an active supporter of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
She died of throat cancer at the age of 69, in New York City and is interred at Hyde Park, New York.
See also
★ Franklin D. Roosevelt, father
★ Eleanor Roosevelt, mother
★ Sara Delano Roosevelt, grandmother
★ Eleanor Seagraves, daughter
★ Curtis Roosevelt, son
Further reading
★ The Franklin D Roosevelt Library at NARA has recently "...received correspondence between Curtis B. Dall, Anna Roosevelt's first husband, and the Roosevelt family, donated by his daughter Mary Dall Twichell...."[1]
★ The New York State Archives has 34 linear feet of the Anna Roosevelt papers.[2]
Notes
1. http://www.archives.gov/research/accessions/
2. http://www.archives.nysed.gov/a/researchroom/rr_health_mh_recguide.shtml
Resources
★ National Park Service bio
★ ''Syracuse Herald'', Jan 18, 1935. p 11 "Anna Dall marries"
External links
★ the Cemetery Project
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