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John Ellis Roosevelt (February 25, 1853 - March 9, 1939) was a lawyer and the president of the Elkhorn Valley Coal Land Company and secretary of the Broadway Improvement Company. He owned the John Ellis Roosevelt Estate.
Biography
He was born on February 25, 1853 to Robert Barnwell Roosevelt and Elizabeth Ellis. He had a brother, Robert Barnwell Roosevelt, Jr. (1866-1929).
On February 19, 1879 he married Nannie Mitchell Vance (1860-1913) in Manhattan and they had two children, Gladys Roosevelt (1889-1926) who married Fairman Rogers Dick (1885-1976) and Jean Schemerhorn Roosevelt (1891-1984).
His wife died on September 26, 1912 of typhoid.
In 1916 he married Edith Hammersley (1884-1943) and then tried to have the marriage annulled.
In 1926 his daughter, Gladys Roosevelt (1889-1926) was killed in a horse riding accident at the Meadow Brook Hunt Club.
He died on March 9, 1939 in Delray Beach, Florida.