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[ROOSEVELT, Franklin D.] HUNT, Thomas. A Historical Sketch of the Town of Clermont. Privately printed, Hudson, N.Y.: The Hudson Press, 1928.
8o (8¾ x 5 5/8in.). Half-title, frontispiece map of Columbia County. Illustrated with two folding maps (pen marginalia p. 85). Gray boards (lacking spine label, slight staining), top edge gilt. In a brown, half morocco slipcase.
INSCRIBED BY FDR: "To my wife Anna Eleanor Roosevelt descendant of the Chancellor and reared on these acres, from Franklin D. Roosevelt. A powerful association of the future President and First Lady. FDR uses her full given name and proudly notes her famous ancestor Robert R. Livingston (1746-1813), who served chancellor of New York State--the highest judicial post at that time, from 1777-1801, and kept the title as an honorific for the rest of his life. Hunt's book is exactly the sort of antiquarian history that FDR relished, mixing genealogy with the major political and military events in this region of Columbia County, in the Catskills. Eleanor Roosevelt was not a direct descendant of the Chancellor, but the great-great granddaughter of one of his brothers, Philip Livingston (1741-1787).
8o (8¾ x 5 5/8in.). Half-title, frontispiece map of Columbia County. Illustrated with two folding maps (pen marginalia p. 85). Gray boards (lacking spine label, slight staining), top edge gilt. In a brown, half morocco slipcase.
INSCRIBED BY FDR: "To my wife Anna Eleanor Roosevelt descendant of the Chancellor and reared on these acres, from Franklin D. Roosevelt. A powerful association of the future President and First Lady. FDR uses her full given name and proudly notes her famous ancestor Robert R. Livingston (1746-1813), who served chancellor of New York State--the highest judicial post at that time, from 1777-1801, and kept the title as an honorific for the rest of his life. Hunt's book is exactly the sort of antiquarian history that FDR relished, mixing genealogy with the major political and military events in this region of Columbia County, in the Catskills. Eleanor Roosevelt was not a direct descendant of the Chancellor, but the great-great granddaughter of one of his brothers, Philip Livingston (1741-1787).