{{Short description|American business executive (1852–1920)}} {{Infobox person | name = | image = Warren Delano III (1852-1920).jpg | caption = ''Miniature watercolor of Delano on ivory, by William Jacob Baer, 1896'' | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1852|07|11|mf=y}} | birth_place = Newburgh, New York, U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|1920|09|09|1852|07|11|mf=y}} | death_place = Barrytown, New York, U.S. | other_names = | alma_mater = Harvard University | known_for = | occupation = | employer = | parents = {{plainlist | * Warren Delano Jr. * Catherine Robbins Lyman }} | spouse = {{marriage|Jean Walters<br>|1876|<!--Omission per Template:Marriage instructions-->}} | children = {{hlist|Warren V|Lyman|Ellen|Jean|William|Laura|Sara}} | relatives = {{plainlist | * Sara Ann Delano (sister) * Frederic Delano (brother) * Franklin D. Roosevelt (nephew) }} }} '''Warren Delano IV'''{{refn|group=lower-alpha|Although commonly referred to as Warren Delano III, he was, in fact, Warren Delano IV, as his elder brother, who was born in 1850, was named Warren Delano III<ref name="Pottker2014"/> and died in infancy before Warren Delano IV's subsequent birth in 1852.<ref name="marist">{{cite web |title=Delano Family Papers, 1568-1919 |url=https://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/archives/collections/franklin/index.php?p=collections/findingaid&id=27 |website=www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu |publisher=Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum |access-date=26 February 2019 |language=en}}</ref>}} (July 11, 1852 – September 9, 1920)<ref>National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Washington D.C.; Roll #: 542; Volume #: Roll 542 - 13 Mar 1900-22 Mar 1900.</ref><ref name="WDObit1920"/> was an American horseman and coal tycoon.<ref name="fdrlibrary">{{cite web |title=Roosevelt Genealogy |url=http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/archives/resources/genealogy.html |website=www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu |publisher=Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum |access-date=18 July 2018}}</ref>

==Early life== [[File:Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt with Warren Delano III and Sara Delano Roosevelt in Newburgh, New York - NARA - 196164.jpg|thumb|right|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.<ref name="Pottker2014"/> He was a member of the Delano family as a son of prominent opium trader, Warren Delano Jr. (1809–1898), and Catherine Robbins (née Lyman) Delano (1825–1896). Among his siblings were younger sister Sara Ann Delano (the mother of U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt) and younger brother Frederic Adrian Delano, a railroad president.

His paternal grandfather was Captain Warren Delano Sr., who was involved in the New England sea trade, and his maternal grandfather was Judge Joseph Lyman of Massachusetts.<ref name="marist"/> His paternal uncle, Franklin Hughes Delano,<ref name="FHDObit1893">{{cite news|title=Franklin H. Delano|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1893/12/25/archives/obituary-record-henry-pettitt.html|access-date=20 March 2018|work=The New York Times|date=25 December 1893}}</ref> was married to Laura Astor, a daughter of William Backhouse Astor Sr. and sister of John Jacob Astor III and William Backhouse Astor Jr.<ref name="1898AstorFamily">{{cite news |title=THE DESCENDANTS OF JOHN JACOB ASTOR. {{!}} INCLUDING THE FAMILIES OF BRISTED, WARD, CHANLER, CARY, DE STUERS, DELANO, VAN ALEN, ROOSEVELT, DRAYTON, WILSON, LANGDON, RUMPFF, BORELL, WILKS, KANE, CARROLL, DE NOTBECK, AND JAY. |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1898/03/06/102107520.pdf |access-date=26 February 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=March 6, 1898}}</ref> (husband of Caroline Schermerhorn Astor).<ref name="FHDNotice1893">{{cite news|title=DIED. DELANO|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1893/12/25/archives/obituary-1-no-title.html|access-date=20 March 2018|work=The New York Times|date=25 December 1893|quote=At Monte Carlo, Monaco, on Dec. 23, 1893, Franklin H. Delano of New-York City}}</ref> Reportedly, Laura was the favorite granddaughter of John Jacob Astor, the founding family patriarch who was America's first millionaire.<ref name="Homberger2004">{{cite book |last1=Homberger |first1=Eric |title=Mrs. Astor's New York: Money and Social Power in a Gilded Age |date=2004 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=9780300105155 |page=105 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=13jwkUPvYGcC&pg=PA105 |access-date=26 February 2019 |language=en}}</ref>

In his youth, he was reportedly barred from his best friend Dick Aldrich's home, Rokeby, for spiking the punch at one of Aldrich's mother's parties (Margaret Aldrich, the wife of Richard Aldrich).<ref name="Brandt1986">{{cite book |last1=Brandt |first1=Clare |title=An American Aristocracy: The Livingstons |date=1986 |publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |isbn=9780385158756 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/americanaristocr0000bran/page/227 227], 233 |url=https://archive.org/details/americanaristocr0000bran |url-access=registration |access-date=26 February 2019 |language=en}}</ref> Delano attended and graduated from Harvard University in 1874, where his future wife attended private art classes.<ref name="Pottker2014"/>

==Career== Delano served as the president of the Delano Coal Company, one of the largest coal operations in Pennsylvania. Delano was known as a subsidiary of the Lackawanna Steel Company. Delano Coal owned the Buena Vista Furnace, a hot blast iron furnace built in 1847, that by the time it was acquired in 1901,<ref name="Weber2008">{{cite book |last1=Weber |first1=Denise Dusza |title=Vintondale |date=2008 |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |isbn=9780738555416 |page=17 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r9grFrG55BgC&pg=PA17 |access-date=26 February 2019 |language=en}}</ref> consisted of {{convert|20000|acre|km2}} of coal land in Indiana and Cambria counties.<ref name=stephenson>{{cite web|first=Clarence D.|last=Stephenson |url=http://www.indianacountyparks.org/parks/bvf/Buena%20Vista%20Furnace.pdf |title=Buena Vista Furnace |publisher=Mahoning Mimeograph and Pamphlet Service |date=July 1968 |access-date=November 7, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011173756/http://www.indianacountyparks.org/parks/bvf/Buena%20Vista%20Furnace.pdf |archive-date=October 11, 2007 }}</ref> He also served as vice president of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad.<ref name="artsandculture">{{cite web |title=Portrait of Warren Delano III - William Jacob Baer (American, 1860-1941) |url=https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/portrait-of-warren-delano-iii/kQFlfnRYBo1x2g |website=artsandculture.google.com |publisher=Google Arts & Culture |access-date=26 February 2019 |language=en}}</ref>

In 1901, Delano founded Wehrum, Pennsylvania, a non-union company town for the Lackawanna Iron and Coal Company, which contained 230 houses, a hotel, company store, jail, bank, post office, school, and two churches.<ref name=guide>{{cite web|url=http://www.indianacountyparks.org/photos/maps/regionaltrailguide.pdf |title=Regional Trail Guide |publisher=Indiana County Parks & Trails |date=April 15, 2008 |access-date=November 7, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080819181021/http://www.indianacountyparks.org/photos/maps/regionaltrailguide.pdf |archive-date=August 19, 2008 }}</ref> Wehrum was the largest town of what is now a series of ghost towns along the "Ghost Town Trail" that were abandoned when the mines declined and closed in the 1930s (the mines were eventually sold to the Bethlehem Mines Corporation in 1922).<ref name=at>{{cite web |url=http://www.americantrails.org/nationalrecreationtrails/trailNRT/Ghost-PA.html |title=Ghost Town National Recreation Trail, Pennsylvania |publisher=National Recreation Trails |date=November 18, 2007 |access-date=November 7, 2008 }}</ref> He also founded Vintondale, Pennsylvania in Cambria County, and served as the President of Vinton Colliery Company and mayor of the town.

As of his death in 1920, Delano was a director of the Union Mining Company, served as president of the Delano Coal Company, and was chairman of the board of the Vinton Colliery Company.<ref name="marist"/>

==Personal life== In 1876, Delano was married to Jean "Jennie" Walters (1853–1922), much to her father's disappointment and discouragement as Jennie was his only daughter and companion following her mother's untimely death while abroad in 1862.<ref name="Pottker2014"/> Jennie was the daughter of William Thompson Walters, a merchant and art collector,<ref name="WTWObit1894">{{cite news |title=AMERICA'S GREAT ART COLLECTOR William Thompson Walters, Known Everywhere for His Devotion to Art, Dies in Baltimore. |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1894/11/23/106881314.pdf |access-date=26 February 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=November 23, 1894}}</ref> and the sister of Henry Walters, who formed the Walters Art Museum from their father's collection.<ref name="1922Wedding">{{cite news |title=HENRY WALTERS IN SURPRISE MARRIAGE Baltimore Financier, 73, Weds Mrs. Pembroke Jones, Widow of His Old Friend. THEY SAIL ON AQUITANIA Noted Art Collector and Bride Tell on Steamer of Their Wedding a Few Hours Before. |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1922/04/12/98783896.pdf |access-date=26 February 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=April 12, 1922}}</ref> Together, they lived in Orange, New Jersey, then New York City, before moving to Rhinebeck-on-Hudson, and were the parents of seven children, five of whom survived to adulthood, one son and four daughters:

* Warren Delano V (1877–1882), who died young. * Lyman Delano (1883–1944), Chairman of the L&N and Atlantic Coast Line railroads,<ref>{{cite news |title=Lyman Delano, Roosevelt Cousin, L. & N. Head, Dies |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/107115375/?clipping_id=44174259&article=3d8be08c-581b-4ea9-82ae-656ecd23e01c&fcfToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJmcmVlLXZpZXctaWQiOjEwNzExNTM3NSwiaWF0IjoxNjcxMDUzNDA5LCJleHAiOjE2NzExMzk4MDl9.a2YjNkQgs2HeTCc6NV9cxZMykNfRzA_K4gj3cXYWf_M |access-date=14 December 2022 |work=Louisville Courier-Journal |date=24 July 1944}}</ref><ref name="1944Funeral">{{cite news |title=100 AT DELANO RITES; Members of Roosevelt FamilyI at Funeral of President's Cousini |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1944/07/26/86875174.pdf |access-date=26 February 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=July 26, 1944 |language=en}}</ref> who married Leila Chapin Burnett (1886–1936) in 1908.<ref name="1908Wedding">{{cite news |title=MISS BUNCE BRIDE OF JOHN G. JACKSON Many New York Guests Attend the Ceremony at Poughkeepsie. MISS LEILA BURNETT WEDS Marriage to Lyman Delano, Son of Mr. and Mrs. Warren Delano of New York, at Southborough. |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1908/06/07/104805002.pdf |access-date=26 February 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=June 7, 1908}}</ref><ref name="LDEngagement1936">{{cite news |title=MISS LEILA DELANO ENGAGED TO MARRY; President Roosevelt's Cousin to Become the Bride of Arthur Willing Patterson. |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1936/09/05/93528578.pdf |access-date=26 February 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=September 5, 1936 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="RBDObit1936">{{cite news |title=ROBERT B. DELANO, BROKER, ENDS LIFE; Relative of the President Is Found a Suicide in the Argentine Chaco. ON STAFF OF COTTON FIRM Son of Lyman Delano Had Been a Close Friend of the Roosevelt Children. |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1936/06/02/85401109.pdf |access-date=26 February 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=June 2, 1936 |language=en}}</ref> * Ellen Walters Delano (1884–1976),<ref name="EDAObit1976">{{cite news |title=ELLEN DELANO ADAMS |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1976/04/18/357291792.pdf |access-date=26 February 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=April 18, 1976 |language=en}}</ref> who married philanthropist Frederick Baldwin Adams (1878–1961).<ref>{{cite news | title=Frederic Adams, Rail Officer, Dies: Director of Several Lines, 83, Had Also Been Banker | work=New York Times | date=24 Oct 1961 | pages=37}}</ref> * Jean Walters Delano (1889–1953),<ref name="JWEObit1953">{{cite news |title=FALL KILLS HORSEWOMAN; Mrs. Jean Waiters Edgell Found on New Hampshire Bridle Path |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1953/08/16/92731333.pdf |access-date=26 February 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=August 16, 1953 |language=en}}</ref> who married George Harold Edgell (1887–1954),<ref name="GHEObit1954">{{cite news |title=G. H. EDGELL DEAD; MUSEUM DIRECTOR; Head of Boston Fine Arts Had Taught at Harvard--Was Expert on Sienese Painting |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1954/06/30/83764367.pdf |access-date=26 February 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=June 30, 1954 |language=en}}</ref> a director of the Boston Fine Arts Museum, in 1914.<ref name="1914Wedding">{{cite news |title=MISS DELANO A BRIDE. Married to Prof. G. H. Edgell at Her Summer Home, Steen Valetje. |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1914/06/14/100320047.pdf |access-date=26 February 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=June 14, 1914}}</ref> * Laura Franklin Delano (1885–1972),<ref name="LFDObit1972">{{cite news |title=Laura F. Delano Is Dead; Dog Show Judge Was 86 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/01/28/archives/laura-f-delano-is-dead-dog-show-judge-was-86.html |access-date=26 February 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=28 January 1972}}</ref> who never married and was a close friend of Helen Huntington,<ref name="WDObit1920"/> the first wife of Vincent Astor.<ref name="Appleseed">{{cite book |last1=Appleseed |first1=Peter |title=Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Life and Times |isbn=9781312213746 |page=81 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tWY3DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA81 |access-date=26 February 2019 |language=en}}</ref> Laura was also the inspiration for the character of Madge Telfair in Thomas Wolfe's novel, ''Of Time and the River''.<ref name="Estersohn2018">{{cite book |last1=Estersohn |first1=Pieter |last2=Aldrich |first2=John Winthrop |title=Life Along the Hudson: The Historic country estates of the Livingston family |date=September 18, 2018 |publisher=Rizzoli |isbn=978-0-8478-6323-5 |pages=188–197 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gVNqDwAAQBAJ |access-date=27 February 2019}}</ref> * William Walters Delano (1892–1892), who died in infancy. * Sara Delano (1894–1983), who married Roland Livingston Redmond (1892–1982).<ref name="Johnston1999">{{cite book |last1=Johnston |first1=William R. |title=William and Henry Walters, the Reticent Collectors |date=1999 |publisher=JHU Press |isbn=9780801860409 |page=15 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ANUsJaysHWAC&pg=PR15 |access-date=26 February 2019 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="Davis1995">{{cite book |last1=Davis |first1=Howland |last2=Clermont |first2=Friends of |title=A Livingston genealogical register |date=1995 |publisher=Kinship |isbn=9781560121367 |pages=F-14, H-33, 235 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZP0wAAAAMAAJ |access-date=26 February 2019 |language=en}}</ref>

On September 9, 1920, Delano was killed when the horse he was riding frightened by an approaching New York Central train, dashed onto the tracks at Barrytown, killing him instantly.<ref name="WDObit1920">{{cite news |title=WARREN DELANO KILLED BY TRAIN AT BARRYTOWN His Favorite Horse, Frightened by Express, Dashed On Track, Carrying Him to Death. BORNE 150 FEET BY ENGINE Uncle of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Had Large Coal interests in Pennsylvania. OWNED STABLE OF HORSES He Intended to Exhibit Animal HeWas Driving at Dutchess County Fair Tomorrow. |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1920/09/10/98589020.pdf |access-date=26 February 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=September 10, 1920}}</ref> His widow died two years later in 1922.<ref name="JRDObit1922">{{cite news |title=DEATH MAY CLEAR UP MYSTERY OF A LIGHT Burning in Mansion 32 Years Since Daughter Married Against Walters's Will. |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1922/12/04/98792806.pdf |access-date=26 February 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=December 4, 1922}}</ref> His funeral was held at Steen Valetje in Barrytown and was attended by his nephew Franklin, then the Democratic vice presidential candidate.<ref name="1920Funeral">{{cite news |title=WARREN DELANO FUNERAL. Franklin D. Roosevelt Attends Services at Barrytown. |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1920/09/13/107001412.pdf |access-date=26 February 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=September 13, 1920}}</ref>

===Steen Valetje residence=== In 1875, Delano inherited Steen Valetje (which means "little stone valley" in Dutch), the estate built in 1851 for his uncle Franklin Hughes Delano on a wedding gift of land from the Astors' nearby Rokeby estate.<ref name="Nonko2017">{{cite news |last1=Nonko |first1=Emily |title=19th century Hudson River estate built for an Astor gets a price cut to $20M |url=https://www.6sqft.com/19th-century-hudson-river-estate-built-for-an-astor-gets-a-price-cut-to-20m/ |access-date=26 February 2019 |work=6sqft |date=August 28, 2017}}</ref> Franklin died childless. In 1881, Delano hired New York architect Thomas Stent to expand the property.<ref name="Pottker2014">{{cite book |last1=Pottker |first1=Jan |title=Sara and Eleanor: The Story of Sara Delano Roosevelt and Her Daughter-in-Law, Eleanor Roosevelt |date=2014 |publisher=St. Martin's Press |isbn=9781466864511 |page=44 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kQBlAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT44 |access-date=26 February 2019 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="Kelly2009">{{cite book |last1=Kelly |first1=Nancy V. |title=Rhinebeck's Historic Architecture |date=2009 |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |isbn=9781614232902 |page=28 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kG92CQAAQBAJ&pg=PT28 |access-date=26 February 2019 |language=en}}</ref>

At Steen Valetje, Delano moved his family and devoted himself to breeding horses.<ref name="Delano1946">{{cite book |last1=Delano |first1=Daniel Webster |title=Franklin Roosevelt and the Delano influence |date=1946 |publisher=J. S. Nudi publications |pages=160, 184 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QdQ1AAAAIAAJ |access-date=26 February 2019 |language=en}}</ref> At the time of his death, he had a stable of 65 horses, including saddle and driving horses and heavy draft horses,<ref name="WDObit1920"/> and was an officer of the Springbrook Driving Park Association.<ref name="WDC&CT1920">{{cite journal |title=Warren Delano Killed by Train |journal=Coal and Coal Trade Journal |date=1920 |page=1021 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uCA-AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1021 |access-date=26 February 2019 |publisher=Coal Publishing Corporation |language=en}}</ref> His son Lyman inherited Steen Valetje and his family kept the home until 1966 when it was sold by the family.<ref name="Estersohn2018"/>

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==External links== * {{find a Grave|43152470}} * [https://www.hrvh.org/cdm/search/searchterm/Steen%20Valetje/mode/exact Steen Valetje] at Hudson River Valley Heritage. * [https://art.thewalters.org/detail/19210/portrait-of-jennie-walters-delano-1853-1922/ Portrait of Jennie Walters Delano (1853-1922)] by Theobald Chartran. * [https://art.thewalters.org/detail/19112/ Portrait of Warren Delano III], by William Jacob Baer.

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