Evening star., 1940-07-22
Mrs. Dora D. Forbes,
92-Year-0|d Aunt
OF President, Dies
Frederick A. DeIuno
With His Sister at
Their Family Estote
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BALMVILLE, N. Y, July o.
Funeral services will be conducted
today for Mrs. Dora Delano Forbes,
81, aunt of President Roosevelt, with
burial tomorrow in Fair Haven,
Mass.
With Mrs. Forbes when she died
yesterday were her two sisters, Mrs.
James Roosevelt, mother of the
President, and Mrs. Price Collier,
Tuxedo Park, N. Y, and her brother,
Frederic A. Delano, National Re-
sources Planning Board chairman.
Mrs. Forbes had returned from
her Paris residence on November
IS, arriving on the liner Manhat-
tan.
Born in Northampton, Mass, in
1847, Mrs. Forbes was the third
of II children of Warren and
Catherine Robbins Lyman Delano.
She was member of the family
which had been founded in this
country by Philippe de la Noye, a
Huguenot and native of Holland,
who landed at Plymouth in 1921
as one of IS passengers on the
ship Fortune.
Family Followed Sea.
De la Noye settled at Duxbury,
Mass. later altering his name to
Philip Delano. Six American viii
lagos and a town in Canada and
one in Flanders have been named
for the Delano family.
Mrs. Forbes maternal ancestors
included officers who fought in
Queen Anne's and the Revolution
ary Wars; Richard Lyman, a
founder of Hartford. Conn.,; the
Rev. Nathaniel Robbins, member
of the Massachusetts, convention
which ratified the Constitution, and
her grandfather, Judge Joseph
Lyman of Northampton.
Her family followed the sea for
generations and was closely identi-
fed with the period when Amer
ican vessels became known over the
oceans of the world. Mrs. Forbes
father had a fleet of clipper ships
operating to China and the west
coast of Africa, and became head
of Russell & Co., largest mercantile
and tea house in China. Mr.. Delano
purchased Algonac, on the west bank
of the Hudson, across from the
Roosevelt home at Hyde Park, after
his marriage.
With the panic of 1857, Mr.. Delano
went to China to rebuild his fortune.
In 1862, Mrs. Forbes, then Is, made
her first ocean voyage, sailing with
her mother and sisters and brothers
aboard the souare-rigged ship Sur
prise to Hong Kong. Eight-year-ol
Sara Delano. mother of President
Roosevelt, kept a diary of the ad-
venturous trip.
Wanted to Fly to China.
Since that first trip Mrs. Forbes
had hade 10 voyages to China from
Paris and the United States and in
Vulnerable transatlantic crossings.
In later years, the Presidents aunt
had expressed the wish to fly to
China with the advent of the air
clippers, but her advanced age made
this inadvisable.
During the sojourn of the Delano
family in Hong Kong. Frederick A.
Delano was born. After four years,
the family returned home, stopping
for a year each in Germany and
Paris.
1t was in Paris, in 1867, that Dora
Delano was married to William
Howell Forbes. a junior member of
Russell & Co.. whom she had met
in China. Mr.. and Mrs. Forbes re-
turned to China, where they lived
for nearly a quarter of a century.
Later they went to Paris to live.
Mr.. Forbes died in 1896 while he
and his wife were visiting at AL
gonac.
Long Resident of Paris.
After her husbands death, Mrs.