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St. James Episcopal Church (Hyde Park, New York)

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Affiliation
  
Episcopal, Anglican

Leadership
  
The Rev. Chuck Kramer

Opened
  
1844

District
  
Diocese of New York

Architectural type
  
Church

Ecclesiastical or organizational status
  
Parish church

St. James Episcopal Church (Hyde Park, New York)

Location
  
4526 Albany Post Road Hyde Park, New York, US

Website
  
St. James Church Hyde Park

Architectural style
  
Gothic Revival architecture

Province
  
Province 2 of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America

Similar
  
St James Chapel, St James' Episcopal Church, Home of Franklin D Roosevel, Eleanor Roosevelt National, Franklin D Roosevelt President

St. James Episcopal Church is a parish church of the Episcopal Diocese of New York, located at 4526 Albany Post Road (U.S. Route 9) in Hyde Park, New York, across the street from the Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site. The church is associated with Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the 32nd President of the United States, whose family estate is located 2.7 miles south of the church. Roosevelt served in the vestry and as senior warden of the church, even during his presidency, and he, his wife Eleanor, and their family regularly attended service there whenever they were in Hyde Park.

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Churchyard

The churchyard contains the graves or memorials of a variety of notables, including several members of Franklin Roosevelt's family.

Roosevelt family

  • James Roosevelt I (1828–1900), FDR's father
  • Rebecca Brien Howland Roosevelt (1831–1876), James' first wife
  • Sara Ann Delano Roosevelt (1854–1941), James' second wife, FDR's mother
  • James Roosevelt Roosevelt (1854–1927), son of James Roosevelt and Rebecca Howland, FDR's half-brother
  • Four of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt's children:
  • Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Dall Boettiger Halsted (1906–1975) and her third husband Dr. James Addison Halsted (1905–1984)
  • The first Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr. (March-November 1909)
  • The second Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr. (1914–1988)
  • John Aspinwall Roosevelt (1916–1981)

    • Other notables

  • Samuel Bard (1742–1821), personal physician to George Washington, founder of Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
  • Elbridge Thomas Gerry (1837–1927), activist and reformer, grandson of Founding Father Elbridge Gerry
  • Morgan Lewis (1754–1844), Governor of New York 1804-1807, colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolution, general in the United States Army during the War of 1812
  • Robert R. Livingston (1746–1813), "The Chancellor", Founding Father, member of Committee of Five to draft Declaration of Independence, administered first oath of office to George Washington, negotiated Louisiana Purchase
  • Ogden Livingston Mills (1884–1937), Secretary of the Treasury under President Herbert Hoover
  • Nathaniel Pendleton (1756–1821), lawyer and judge, served as second to Alexander Hamilton during duel with Aaron Burr in 1804
  • Edmund Henry Pendleton (1788–1862), Dutchess County judge, U.S. Congressman from New York

    • References

    St. James Episcopal Church (Hyde Park, New York) Wikipedia
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