Engineer
Centurion, 1872–1878
Born 23 July 1827 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Died 30 September 1887 in South Orange, New Jersey
Buried Green-Wood Cemetery
, Brooklyn, New York
Proposed by Peter R. Strong and Robert Barnwell Roosevelt
Elected 5 October 1872 at age forty-five
Archivist’s Note: Brother of James A. Roosevelt, Robert Barnwell Roosevelt, Silas Weir Roosevelt, and Theodore Roosevelt; uncle of Alfred Roosevelt, James West Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, and W. Emlen Roosevelt
