page_title: Warren Delano Jr.
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Warren Delano Jr. / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: Catherine Lyman Delano, grandmother of FDR
context_page_description: Warren Delano Jr. was an American-born merchant who made a large fortune in the illegal opium trade in China. He was the maternal grandfather of U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
context_section_description: On November 1, 1843, Delano was married to Catherine Robbins Lyman (1825–1896), a daughter of Joseph Lyman and Anne Jean (née Robbins) Lyman, during a short visit to Massachusetts. Together, they were the parents of:
  Susan Maria Delano (1844–1846), who died young.
  Louisa Church Delano (1846–1869), who died unmarried.
  Deborah Perry Delano (1847–1940), who married merchant William Howell Forbes. After William died in 1896, she married his brother Paul Revere Forbes in 1903.
  Anne Lyman Delano (1849–1926), who married merchant Frederic Delano Hitch in 1877.
  Warren Delano III (1850–1851), who died young.
  Warren Delano IV (1852–1920), who married Jennie Walters, the only daughter of merchant William Thompson Walters.
  Sara Ann Delano (1854–1941), who married James Roosevelt I.
  Philippe Delano (1857–1881), who died unmarried.
  Katherine Robbins Delano (1860–1953), who married Charles Albert Robbins in 1882. After his death in 1889, she married Hiram Price Collier, a Unitarian minister.
  Frederic Adrian Delano (1863–1953), who married Matilda Anne Peasley and served as president of the Monon Railroad.
  Laura Franklin Delano (1864–1884), who died unmarried.
  In 1851, Delano bought 60 acres on the Hudson River in Balmville, New York (two miles north of Newburgh). On the estate, he built a large family home called Algonac.  His grandson Franklin Roosevelt was married at Algonac in 1905.
  His wife Catherine died on February 10, 1896 in Newburgh.  Delano died at Algonac on January 17, 1898 of bronchial pneumonia.  After a funeral there, he was buried next to his wife in the Delano Family Tomb at Riverside Cemetery in Fairhaven, Massachusetts (which Delano had established in 1850). The tomb was erected in 1859 and designed by Richard Morris Hunt.
caption: Catherine Robbins Lyman Delano
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