Philip Roosevelt
Image:Philip Roosevelt.jpg, standing at the gate outside Mercy Hospital where his cousin was taken after a 1912-10-14 assassination attempt (1912-10-15)]]
Philip James Roosevelt (May 15, 1892 – November 8, 1941) was a World War I captain for the United States Army, Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps (predecessor to the United States Air Force), editor of Aviation and Aeronautic Engineering (later known as Aviation Week, then Aviation Week & Space Technology), banker, yachtsman, and a cousin of United States President Theodore Roosevelt.{{cite web|url=http://aviation.se.edu/salluisi/avia3143/Handouts/Americas%20First%20Air-Land%20Battle.pdf|title=America's First Air-Land Battle|accessdate=2008-05-12|date=Winter 2003|work=Air & Space Power Journal|author=Frandsen, Bert|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100628042544/http://aviation.se.edu/salluisi/avia3143/Handouts/Americas%20First%20Air-Land%20Battle.pdf|archivedate=2010-06-28}} Philip was close to the president's children and accompanied them on trips.{{cite news|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1904/07/31/120270811.pdf|title=Roosevelt Boys in St. Louis|accessdate=2008-05-12|date=1904-07-30|newspaper=The New York Times }}{{cite news|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1914/06/14/100320141.pdf|title=Roosevelt Arrives for London Lecture|accessdate=2008-05-17|date=1914-06-14|newspaper=The New York Times }}
Early life
Roosevelt was born on May 15, 1892. He was the youngest son of Emlen Roosevelt and Christine Griffin ({{nee}} Kean) Roosevelt (1858–1936),{{cite news|title=Mrs. W. Roosevelt Dead in Hospital; Widow of Financier a Sister of Former Senator Kean of New Jersey. Active in Aiding Charity Had Cooperated With Husband in Philanthropic Work -- Headed Institution.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1936/03/01/archives/mrs-w-roosevelt-dead-in-hospital-widow-of-financier-a-sister-of.html|accessdate=April 17, 2017|work=The New York Times|date=March 1, 1936}}{{cite web|url=http://smokershistory.com/Central.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210305011406/http://smokershistory.com/Central.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=2021-03-05|title=Bank History, Central Trust Company of New York|accessdate=2008-05-17|date=2008-04-12}} His elder brother was George Emlen Roosevelt.{{cite news |title=George Emlen Roosevelt Dies; Leading Banker and Yachtsman; Second Cousin of President Aided Bull Moose Drive-- N.Y.U. Board Chairman Skipper of the Mistress Aided the Long Island|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1963/09/04/archives/george-emlen-roosevelt-dies-leading-banker-and-yachtsman-second.html|accessdate=April 16, 2017|work=The New York Times|date=September 4, 1963}}
His maternal grandparents were Col. John Kean and Lucy ({{nee}} Halsted) Kean (a daughter of Caleb O. Halsted, president of the Bank of the Manhattan Company). Among his extended family were uncles, John Kean and Hamilton Fish Kean, both of whom served as United States Senators from New Jersey.{{cite book|last1=Jordan|first1=John W.|title=Colonial And Revolutionary Families Of Pennsylvania|date=2004|publisher=Genealogical Publishing Com|isbn=9780806352398|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=arAfWBsvO1gC&q=Mary+Emlen+Roosevelt+%281848%E2%80%931885%29&pg=PA197|accessdate=April 16, 2017}}
He was a 1912 graduate of Harvard University. He served as the 1914 President of The Harvard Advocate.
=Military service=
Roosevelt was an original member of Raynal Bolling's 1st Aero Company of the New York National Guard. He did not qualify as a military aviator due to his eyesight, but as a military-aviation journalist he was a prominent aerial warfare expert. Immediately after United States Congress declared war on 6 April 1917, the Signal Corps summoned Roosevelt to Washington to help plan the aviation mobilization. He impressed Benjamin Delahauf Foulois and accompanied him to France. Foulois paired Roosevelt with major Bert Atkinson, but they had the command organization that resulted from the American Expeditionary Force’s inexperience in coalition warfare. They operated under the French Sixth Army, but two different American headquarters (including Colonel Billy Mitchell's 1st Air Brigade headquarters) felt that they held jurisdiction. The two planned America's first-ever air-land battle at a time when the US Army was still learning the nuances of command relationships between the pursuit and observation groups and the corps and armies they supported.
The Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was certified as ratified on January 29, 1919, and the National Prohibition Act, passed in the United States Congress over United States President Woodrow Wilson's veto on October 28, 1919. In November 1919, during prohibition, Roosevelt served as president of a joint venture with his cousins Theodore Roosevelt Jr., Kermit Roosevelt, Archibald Roosevelt, and Ethel Roosevelt Derby and her husband Richard Derby, opening a coffeehouse named the Brazilian Coffeehouse at 108 West 44th Street in Manhattan, New York.{{cite web|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1919/11/26/96868990.pdf|title=Roosevelts Start Coffeehouse Chain|accessdate=2008-05-13|date=1919-11-26|work=The New York Times }} The coffeehouse was renamed the Double R, and moved to 112 W. 44th in 1921. It was managed by the Roosevelts until 1928.{{cite web|url=http://www.nps.gov/sahi/supportyourpark/upload/March%202007%20T.pdf|title=The Roosevelts' "Brazilian Coffee House"|accessdate=2008-05-17|date=March 2007|publisher=National Park Service|work=The Rough Writer|author=Reyes, Joshua}}
=Later life=
He would later become partner in Roosevelt & Son and supposedly became a trustee of the estate of James Roosevelt, Sr. on behalf of distant cousin and United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt. A Time story of a repartee between cousins in a series of written notes about the effects of fiscal policy and estate interests was very humorous, but denied as false.{{cite magazine|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,847334,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101125082620/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,847334,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 25, 2010|title=Trustees|accessdate=2008-05-12|date=1934-11-19|publisher=Time Inc.|magazine=Time}}
Personal life
In 1925, he married his cousin Jean Schermerhorn Roosevelt (1891–1984), daughter of John Ellis Roosevelt.{{cite news |title=John E. Roosevelt, A Retired Lawyer. Cousin of Theodore Roosevelt Dies in Florida at 86 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1939/03/10/archives/john-e-roosevelt-a-retired-lawyer-cousin-of-theodore-roosevelt-dies.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=March 10, 1939 |access-date=2013-11-16 }} Their common great-grandfather, Cornelius Van Schaak Roosevelt, was Theodore Roosevelt's grandfather.{{cite magazine|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,720380,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120219121423/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,720380,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 19, 2012|title=untitled|accessdate=2008-05-17|date=1925-05-18|publisher=Time, Inc.|magazine=Time}} Together, they were the parents of:
- Philippa Roosevelt (1926–1986), who married Benjamin Eustis Jeffries in 1958.{{cite news |title=Miss Roosevelt, Vassar Alumna, To Be Married; Oyster Bay Girl Is the Fiancee of Benjamin Eustis Jeffries |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1958/05/04/archives/miss-roosevelt-vassar-alumna-to-be-married-oyster-bay-girl-is-the.html |access-date=15 June 2023 |work=The New York Times |date=4 May 1958}}{{cite news |title=Miss Roosevelt Married on L. I. To B. E. Jeffries; Wed in Her Mother's Home in Oyster Bay to Harvard Alumnus |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1958/05/18/archives/miss-roosevelt-married-on-l-i-to-b-e-jeffries-wed-in-her-mothers.html |access-date=15 June 2023 |work=The New York Times |date=18 May 1958}}
- Philip James Roosevelt Jr. (1928–1998), who married Philippa Buss, a daughter of Robert D. Buss of Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1969.{{cite news |title=Son for Mrs. Roosevelt |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/09/24/archives/son-for-mrs-roosevelt.html |access-date=15 June 2023 |work=The New York Times |date=24 September 1972}}{{cite news |title=Paid Notice: Deaths ROOSEVELT, P. JAMES |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/30/classified/paid-notice-deaths-roosevelt-p-james.html |access-date=15 June 2023 |work=The New York Times |date=30 November 1998}}
- John Ellis Roosevelt (1931–1985), who married Helen Catherine Daae Sparrow, a daughter of banker Edward Grant Sparrow, in 1959.{{cite news |title=Helen Sparrow Bride Of John E. Roosevelt |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1959/12/31/archives/helen-sparrow-bride-j-of-john-e-roosevelt.html |access-date=15 June 2023 |work=The New York Times |date=31 December 1959}}
He died November 8, 1941 of drowning, presumably after a heart attack, while sailing a dinghy in Oyster Bay, New York.{{cite news |title=PHILIP ROOSEVELT DIES BY DROWNING; Dinghy Capsizes in Oyster Bay -- Noted Yachtsman, Banker and A.E.F. Flier Was 49 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1941/11/09/archives/philip-roosevelt-dies-by-drowning-dinghy-capsizes-in-oyster-bay.html |access-date=30 August 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=9 November 1941}}
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External links
- [http://www.footnote.com/image/19446355 Group Operations Officer Memoranda]
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