page_title: Valentine Hall Jr.
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Valentine Hall Jr. / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: Picture of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt's mother
context_page_description: Valentine Gill Hall Jr. was an American socialite, banker, and merchant who was the maternal grandfather of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt.
context_section_description: On April 24, 1861, Hall was married to Mary Livingston "Molly" Ludlow in a marriage that "...united a member of a prominent New York merchantile family with Hudson River gentry".  Mary was the daughter of Dr. Edward Hunter Ludlow, another business partner of Hall's father, and Elizabeth (née Livingston) Ludlow, the granddaughter of the 11th Lieutenant Governor of New York, Edward Philip Livingston, and the great-granddaughter of Chancellor Robert Livingston, of the Livingston family.  After the death of her parents, Valentine brought the family to live at the Ludlow home in Clermont, New York (five miles north of Tivoli), building a Second Empire-style 8,375-square-foot mansion called Oak Terrace on Woods Road (also known as "The Oaks" or "Oak Lawn") in 1872 next to the house of his brother-in-law, which overlooks the Hudson River and the Catskill Mountains.  Together, Valentine and Mary were the parents of seven children, including:
  Anna Rebecca Hall (1863–1892), who married Elliott Bulloch Roosevelt (1860–1894), the son of Theodore Roosevelt Sr. and brother of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, in 1883.
  Elizabeth Livingston Hall (1865–1944), who married Stanley Mortimer (1855–1932), son of William Yates Mortimer and Elizabeth (née Thorpe) Mortimer and brother of Richard Mortimer, in 1890.
  Valentine Gill Hall III (1867–1934), a champion tennis player.
  Mary Livingston Hall (1869–1872), who died young.
  Edward Ludlow Hall (1872–1932), also a champion tennis player, who married Josephine Booraen Zabriskie (1878–1912), daughter of Augustus Zabriskie, in 1898.
  Edith Livingston Hall (1873–1920), who married William Forbes Morgan, Jr. (b. 1877), son of William Forbes Morgan and Ellie (née Robinson) Morgan, in 1904.
  Maude Livingston Hall (1877–1952), who married polo player Lawrence Waterbury (b. 1878), son of James Waterbury and Katharine (née Furman) Waterbury, in 1900.  They divorced in 1912.
  Hall died at their estate in the Hudson Valley, just north of Tivoli, at the age of 46, on July 17, 1880.  He was buried in the Hall family vault at St. Paul's Episcopal Church Cemetery in Tivoli, New York.  His widow, who maintained various New York homes at 11 West 37th Street and 20 Gramercy Park (next door to Stuyvesant Fish at 19 Gramercy Park), also died at their Hudson Valley estate on August 14, 1919 at the age of 77.  The Hudson Valley home was owned by their daughter Maude, which Eleanor continued to visit into the 1950s.
caption: Hall's eldest daughter, Anna Hall Roosevelt
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