Philip Roosevelt

Philip James Roosevelt (May 15, 1892 – November 8, 1941) was a World War I captain for the United States Army, Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps (predecessor to the United States Air Force), editor of Aviation and Aeronautic Engineering (later known as Aviation Week, then Aviation Week & Space Technology), banker, yachtsman, and a cousin of United States President Theodore Roosevelt. Philip was close to the president's children and accompanied them on trips.

Early life Roosevelt was born on May 15, 1892. He was the youngest son of Emlen Roosevelt and Christine Griffin ( Kean) Roosevelt (1858–1936), His elder brother was George Emlen Roosevelt.

His maternal grandparents were Col. John Kean and Lucy ( Halsted) Kean (a daughter of Caleb O. Halsted, president of the Bank of the Manhattan Company). Among his extended family were uncles, John Kean and Hamilton Fish Kean, both of whom served as United States Senators from New Jersey.

He was a 1912 graduate of Harvard University. The coffeehouse was renamed the Double R, and moved to 112 W. 44th in 1921. It was managed by the Roosevelts until 1928.

Later life He would later become partner in Roosevelt & Son and supposedly became a trustee of the estate of James Roosevelt, Sr. on behalf of distant cousin and United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt. A Time story of a repartee between cousins in a series of written notes about the effects of fiscal policy and estate interests was very humorous, but denied as false.

Personal life In 1925, he married his cousin Jean Schermerhorn Roosevelt (1891–1984), daughter of John Ellis Roosevelt. Their common great-grandfather, Cornelius Van Schaak Roosevelt, was Theodore Roosevelt's grandfather. Together, they were the parents of:

Philippa Roosevelt (1926–1986), who married Benjamin Eustis Jeffries in 1958. Philip James Roosevelt Jr. (1928–1998), who married Philippa Buss, a daughter of Robert D. Buss of Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1969. John Ellis Roosevelt (1931–1985), who married Helen Catherine Daae Sparrow, a daughter of banker Edward Grant Sparrow, in 1959.

He died November 8, 1941 of drowning, presumably after a heart attack, while sailing a dinghy in Oyster Bay, New York.