The image to the right is of Eleanor and their daughter Anna James was twice the age of Sara when they got married. Then after two years, Franklin D. Roosevelt was born January 30, 1882 at Hyde Park, New York. His parents were James Roosevelt and Sara Delano Roosevelt. Franklin had no brothers or sisters, but five cousins. One cousins was Theodore Roosevelt which was another one of our presidents. The very first Roosevelt, Franklin’s father’s side, that came to America came from Holland, also know as the Netherlands, during the 1640s. The first Delano, Franklin’s mother’s side, in America came on the second shipload of settlers to land at Plymouth Colony in 1621. Franklin proposed to his cousin Eleanor on November 22, 1903. They got married on Saint Patrick’s Day. They had seven children but one died. They had Anna, James, The first Franklin Jr. which died, Elliott, John, and the second Franklin Jr.. Franklin was home school by his mother when he was six years of age. His mother taught him how to read and write. Franklin mother gave him to tutors and governesses to teach more. They taught him to speak French, German, and Latin, along with history, science, arithmetic, and geography. Franklin entered Groton, an exclusive Massachusetts prep school in 1896. He tried out for Football, but was on the seventh-football squad. He also tried out for baseball, he put on the team called BBB (Bum Baseball Boys), which was made up the worst player that tried for the team in his school. He was only in Groton for four years. In September 1900 he attended Harvard College. When Franklin was a freshmen in college his father died of a lingering heart ailment. His father was only seventy-two when he died.