Person:Warren Delano (1)

m. 6 Nov 1808
  1. Warren Delano1809 - 1898
  1. Sara Ann Delano1854 - 1941
  2. Frederic Adrian Delano1863 - 1953
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Name Warren Delano
Gender Male
Birth? 13 Jul 1809 Fairhaven, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage to Catherine Robbins Lyman
Death? 17 Jan 1898 Balmville, Orange, New York, United StatesAlgonac
Burial[2] Riverside Cemetery, Fairhaven, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States
Reference Number Q47088809 (Wikidata)

A descendant of Mayflower passengers Richard Warren, Isaac Allerton, Degory Priest, and Francis Cooke. During a period of twelve years in China he made more than a million dollars in the tea trade in Macau, Canton, and Hong Kong, but upon returning to the United States, he lost it all in the Panic of 1857. In 1860, he returned to China and made a fortune in the notorious but highly profitable opium trade[6] supplying opium-based medication to the U. S. War Department during the American Civil War but not exclusively.[3]


  1.   Franklin D. Roosevelt, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
  2. Warren Delano II, in Find A Grave.
  3. Wikipedia, citing Smith, Jean Edward, FDR, pp. 10-13, Random House, 2007.