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Warren Delano Jr. (July 13, 1809 – January 17, 1898) was an American merchant and drug smuggler who made a large fortune smuggling illegal opium into China. He was the maternal grandfather of U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Learn about Warren Delano, the grandfather of President Roosevelt, who made his fortune in the opium trade in China. Explore his family history, his adventures, and his legacy in the Hudson Valley.
Warren Delano IV (1852–1920), a coal magnate and horseman; Sara Ann Delano (1854–1941), mother of Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Jane Arminda Delano (1862–1919), an RN. Nurse, Founder of the American Red Cross Nurses Service, died in Lilles France, 1919 from influenza. She died in service to stop the swine flu pandemic.
Warren's life-long commitment to computational biosciences began when he was an undergraduate research student (majoring in molecular biophysics and biochemistry (MB&B) and computer science at...
Warren Delano IV [a] (July 11, 1852 – September 9, 1920) [3] [4] was an American horseman and coal tycoon. [5] Early life. Delano (left), with Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and Delano's sister, Sara Delano Roosevelt in Newburgh, New York, in 1905. Delano was born at Algonac, the family estate in Balmville near Newburgh, New York in 1852. [1] .
28 de jun. de 1997 · In 1823 a 24-year-old Yankee, Warren Delano, sailed to Canton, where he did so well that within seven years he was a senior partner in Russell & Company. Delano's problem, as with all traders,...
Abstract. Warren Delano represents a typical trader who needed more than moral integrity to keep him away from the opium trade. Arriving in Canton for the first time in 1834, Delano was lured to China by a commercial culture that unofficially tolerated opium smuggling.
