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Silas Weir Roosevelt

Lawyer/Poet

Centurion, 1859–1865

Proposed by
Charles Tracy
born October 18, 1823
New York State
died March 24, 1870
New York (Manhattan), New York
elected June 4, 1859
Age thirty-five
buried Green-Wood Cemetery,
Brooklyn, New York
Member portrait of Silas Weir Roosevelt

Archivist’s Notes

Brother of Cornelius Van Schaick Roosevelt, James A. Roosevelt, Robert Barnwell Roosevelt, and Theodore Roosevelt; father of James West Roosevelt; uncle of Alfred Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, and W. Emlen Roosevelt; grandfather of Nicholas Roosevelt

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