Reply #111: not only from the same class, he was a bankster, like his fathers before him.

[Hannah Bell]

roosevelts founded e.g. Chemical Bank, Bank of NY...

Founded in 1823 as the Chemical Manufacturing Company, the renamed Chemical Bank operated under a New York state charter until 1865 and again, as Chemical Bank & Trust Company, after 1929. It was long dominated by the Goelet and < Cornelius van Schaack > Roosevelt families. In 1954 it acquired the Corn Exchange Bank and Trust Company, in 1959 the Trust Company of New York and in 1991 it merged with Manufacturers Hanover, itself the result of several earlier mergers. The Hanover Bank of New York was once controlled by another of New York's banking dynasties : the Woodwards. In the year 2000, the combined Chase and Chemical group merged with J. P. Morgan to form J P Morgan Chase.

http://www.raken.com/american_wealth/bankers_gilded_age/Bankers_index5.asp


The Bank of New York (Now BofNY-Mellon) founded on June 9, 1784<2>, making it the oldest bank in the United States. Alexander Hamilton, founder; Isaac Roosevelt, cofounder, second president..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_New_York


plus lots of smaller ventures...