Alexina Sattler was born in 1906. Alexina married Pierre Matisse, son of Henri Matisse and Amelie Moellie Parayre, in 1929. Alexina Sattler and Pierre Matisse were separated in 1949. Alexina Sattler died in 1995.
     

Alexina "Teeny" Duchamp (1906 – 1995) was the second wife of artist and chess player, Marcel Duchamp. She was born Alexina Sattler in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1906. The youngest daughter of prominent surgeon Robert Sattler, Alexina was nicknamed "Teeny" by her mother because of her low birth weight.

She went to Paris to study art in 1921 and there she first met Marcel Duchamp in 1923 at a ball given in her honor by Mariette Mills, the mother of a close friend. In 1929 Teeny married Pierre Matisse, the eldest son of Fauve artist Henri Matisse. They had three children: Jacqueline, Paul, and Peter. In 1949 Pierre and Teeny separated due to Pierre's infidelity with Patricia Matta. She received in the subsequent Divorce settlement many important paintings.

She worked for a time as an agent/broker for artists such as Constantin Brancusi and Joan Miró.

In the autumn of 1951 she was invited by Dorothea Tanning to go on a weekend trip. It was on that trip that she once again met Duchamp, and romance developed shortly thereafter. They were both avid chess players. Teeny and Duchamp married in New York City on January 16, 1954. They were together until his death in 1968.

     Maria-Gaetana married Pierre Matisse, son of Henri Matisse and Amelie Moellie Parayre, in 1974.

      Gladys Arden Carson Kane was born circa 1907 at New York. She was the daughter of William Carson Kane and Corinne Parrott Dickinson. Gladys Arden Carson Kane died on May 1, 1926 at New York City, New York County, New York.
     She was obit.

      Geraldine Scott Hoyt was born circa 1863. She was the daughter of Goold Hoyt and Adeline Camilla Scott. Geraldine married William Carson Kane, son of Pierre Corne Kane and Edith Brevoort. Geraldine Scott Hoyt died on May 23, 1894.
     

     Goold married Adeline Camilla Scott.

     Adeline married Goold Hoyt.

     Francis married Phoebe Taylor.

     Phoebe married Francis Bayard Winthrop.

      Catherine Winthrop was born in 1848 at New York. She was the daughter of Charles F. Winthrop and Georgiana Maria Kane.

      Gertrude Winthrop was born circa 1845 at New York. She was the daughter of Charles F. Winthrop and Georgiana Maria Kane.

      Frederick Winthrop was born in 1840 at New York. He was the son of Charles F. Winthrop and Georgiana Maria Kane. Frederick Winthrop died in 1865.

      Robert Winthrop was born on Sep 18, 1833 at New York. He was the son of Charles F. Winthrop and Georgiana Maria Kane. Robert married Karherine Wilson Taylor, daughter of Moses Taylor. Robert Winthrop died on Nov 18, 1892 at New York at age 59.

      Charles Francis Winthrop was born on Mar 20, 1827 at New York. He was the son of Charles F. Winthrop and Georgiana Maria Kane.

      Maria Winthrop was born in 1831 at New York. She was the daughter of Charles F. Winthrop and Georgiana Maria Kane. Maria married Henry D. Robinson.

      Grenville B. Winthrop was born in 1838 at New York. He was the son of Charles F. Winthrop and Georgiana Maria Kane. Grenville married Elizabeth Van S. Oddie.

      Elizabeth Van S. Oddie was born in 1845. Elizabeth married Grenville B. Winthrop, son of Charles F. Winthrop and Georgiana Maria Kane.

      Grenville Bayard Winthrop was born in 1869 at New York. He was the son of Grenville B. Winthrop and Elizabeth Van S. Oddie. Grenville married Arazelia Van Zant.

      Arazelia Van Zant was born in 1874. Arazelia married Grenville Bayard Winthrop, son of Grenville B. Winthrop and Elizabeth Van S. Oddie.

      Grenville Bayard Winthrop was born on May 18, 1900 at New York. He was the son of Grenville Bayard Winthrop and Arazelia Van Zant. Grenville Bayard Winthrop died in 1960.

     Henry married Maria Winthrop, daughter of Charles F. Winthrop and Georgiana Maria Kane.

     Georgiana W. Robinson was the daughter of Henry D. Robinson and Maria Winthrop.

     Harriet Duer Robinson was the daughter of Henry D. Robinson and Maria Winthrop.

     Gertrude B. Robinson was the daughter of Henry D. Robinson and Maria Winthrop.

      Mary Winthrop was born in 1864 at New York. She was the daughter of Grenville B. Winthrop and Elizabeth Van S. Oddie.

      Isabel Winthrop was born in 1866 at New York. She was the daughter of Grenville B. Winthrop and Elizabeth Van S. Oddie.

     Alice married F. Norton Goddard. Alice Winthrop was born on Jul 15, 1867 at New York. She was the daughter of Grenville B. Winthrop and Elizabeth Van S. Oddie.

     F. married Alice Winthrop, daughter of Grenville B. Winthrop and Elizabeth Van S. Oddie.

      Karherine Wilson Taylor was born in 1839. She was the daughter of Moses Taylor. Karherine married Robert Winthrop, son of Charles F. Winthrop and Georgiana Maria Kane. Karherine Wilson Taylor died in 1892.

      Robert Dudley Winthrop was born on Jul 22, 1861. He was the son of Robert Winthrop and Karherine Wilson Taylor. Robert Dudley Winthrop died on Apr 16, 1912 at age 50; not married.
     He a Captain, U. S. Army, served on the staff of General Coppinger during the Spanish American War.

      Grenville Lindall Winthrop was born on Feb 11, 1864 at New York City, New York County, New York. He was the son of Robert Winthrop and Karherine Wilson Taylor. Grenville married Mary Talmadge Trevor on Jun 2, 1892. Grenville Lindall Winthrop died on Jan 19, 1943 at New York City, New York County, New York, at age 78. Grenville was buried at Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York.
     

Art Connoisseur and Collector, Historian, Conservationist, and Philanthropist. Son of Robert Winthrop (1833-1892) banker, and Kate Wilson Taylor Winthrop (1839-1925). Direct descendant of John Winthrop (1588-1649) a founder, in 1623, and first Colonial governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and his son John Winthrop (1606-1676), first governor of the Connecticut colony. Graduated Harvard University cum laude in 1886, then Harvard Law School in 1889; retiring from a career in law in 1896. President of the Lenox (Massachusetts) Library Association until the end of his life; responsible for restoring the old Colonial courthouse and converting it into the present library building. He made Lenox his principal residence ~ 'Groton Place', Winthrop's country estate, represented one of the finest achievements of private landscape in America; lawn, woodland effect, and fountains made to his designs, gaining for him awards from the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. A shy, reticent person who concealed his deepest feelings beneath a courtly manner, Grenville Lindall Winthrop found no inspiration in the family's bank or law offices. Rather, he amassed an unparalleled collection of some four thousand works of art. Given to Harvard the collection, in its entirety, represents the most important such bequest ever to an American university; ranked among the finest in the country along with those of J. Pierpont Morgan, Henry Clay Frick and Isabella Stewart Gardener. The enduring monument of this quiet, unostentatious gentleman exists in his collection. (bio by: Robert Bruce).



Grenville Lindall Winthrop, A.B. 1886, LL.B. '89, had a passion for beauty. He had financial resources, leisure, and eclectic tastes, and indulged his passion hugely. Yet, from what one may know of him, he seems in certain aspects of his life a pathetic figure.

When Winthrop died in 1943, he left his art collection to Harvard. It was vast: about 4,000 objects. By the middle of the 1920s, his treasures had grown so numerous that his capacious house in the Murray Hill neighborhood of Manhattan could no longer accommodate them, and so he built them a new home, on a double lot at 15 East 81st Street, near the Metropolitan Museum. He put the Winthrop crest above the door, for he was proud of his ancestry. (Born in 1864, he was the second son in the ninth generation of an unbroken line of Winthrop men stretching back to John Winthrop, first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.) Inside his new quarters, a veritable museum, he had a bedroom for himself, one guest room, and chamber after chamber full of obsessively arranged objects: early Wedgwood, Pre-Raphaelite paintings, Mesoamerican masks, gold-ground Italian paintings, French drawings, clocks, Korean Buddhas.

Winthrop had amassed "one of the most important, yet least well known, collections ever assembled in the United States," says Stephan S. Wolohojian, Ph.D. '94, associate curator of paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts at Harvard's Fogg Art Museum. It was encyclopedic in scope, yet had focused strengths. Winthrop had gathered in more works by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres than any other private collector. He had a room full of more than 50 works by the painter-poet William Blake. "To this day," according to Wolohojian, "no other collector has been able to assemble a comparable collection of ancient Chinese jades and bronzes." Winthrop's bequest remains the largest single gift of its kind to any university. It had a transformative effect on the Fogg and on teaching and learning about art at Harvard.

Extremely protective of his beauties, Winthrop never loaned them; the University Art Museums have maintained that policy. Harvard has never exhibited the collection as a whole; thus, its depth has continued to be hidden, except from specialists. While many Winthrop objects have been published, and may even have the look of familiarity, the public has not been able heretofore to stand face to face with these masterworks en masse.

Now, an exhibition, A Private Passion, featuring nineteenth-century Western paintings and drawings from the Winthrop collection, organized by Harvard and curated by Wolohojian, opens at the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon, in March; at the National Gallery, London, in June; at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, in October; and at the National Gallery, Washington, D.C., in February 2004. It includes works by Blake, Burne-Jones, Daumier, David, van Gogh, Homer, Ingres, Renoir, Rodin, Sargent, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Whistler—a dazzling sample of Winthrop's collections in this area. A second Winthrop exhibition, of ancient Chinese art, will rendezvous with the first at the National Gallery in February 2004 and go on to tour internationally.

Shy, reclusive, solitary, straitlaced, reserved, puritanical, fastidious, aloof, grave, stubborn, stiff, disaffected, "He shielded himself behind a screen of perfect manners." These are some of the adjectives Wolohojian employs in a biographical essay about Winthrop in the exhibition catalog. "He had nice tastes, certainly," Edith Wharton, a close friend of Winthrop's mother, wrote of him, "but he seems to me to want digging out & airing...."

At Harvard, Winthrop studied geology and art history and was a member of the Porcellian Club. He stayed on in Cambridge to get a law degree, and then returned home to New York City and set up a law practice with two others. In 1892, at 28, he married Mary Tallmadge Trevor. They had two girls, Emily and Kate. "Winthrop was ill suited to being a lawyer," writes Wolohojian, "and his practice soon failed. Having limited interest in pursuing another profession, and perhaps even work itself, he retired completely in 1896...."

His marriage was less than successful. Perhaps suffering from postpartum depression, in the spring of 1900 Mary left New York City for her family home in Yonkers; she died suddenly in December. Suicide was speculated. The girls, seven and not quite one, were left in Winthrop's care. Determined to keep them from their mother's emotional fate, he sought expert advice, put them (and himself) on a vegetarian diet, and, to keep them from being overstimulated, had them taught at home. Later, when they were young adults and vacationed at his siblings' houses, he insisted on knowing in advance the names of all the people they would meet. Winthrop had a summer house on 150 acres in Lenox, Massachusetts, where he bought large tracts of nearby Bald Head Mountain to protect his vistas and where, it was said, he had 40 men to mow the lawns and kept 500 peacocks and pheasants to provide a kaleidoscope of color as they roamed the property. Winthrop spent his days either there or in his Manhattan house. In September 1924, when he left Lenox for an overnight trip to New York, both daughters eloped: Emily, 31, with her chauffeur; Kate, 24, with her father's electrician. The New York Times put the story on its front page. Shocked, abandoned, alone, Winthrop turned entirely to collecting art.

He had no love for the hunt and—except in the case of his Asian art, which he acquired largely on his own, relying on his own discernment—he depended on trusted agents, with consultation, to discover, buy, and send his treasures to him. One such person, who became a friend, was Martin Birnbaum. "A lawyer by training, an art dealer by vocation, and a violinist at heart," writes Wolohojian, "Birnbaum was as colorful as Winthrop was drab." In his 1960 autobiography, Birnbaum imagined the elderly Winthrop at home: "After a lonely dinner, chiefly of fruit and vegetables, he would read some favorite book, or work on a card catalogue of his treasures....Proust could have done the scene justice. The quiet cork-lined rooms [were] disturbed only by the chimes of the fine collection of grandfather clocks that stood in the rooms, hallways and on most of the landings. They were carefully adjusted so that their mellow bells reverberated successively without interfering with one another, and while their delicate peals vibrated through the house the master would move about the shadows hanging his drawings or cataloguing them, or rearranging the Chinese jades and gilt bronzes."

http://harvardmagazine.com/2003/03/unveiled.html.

     Mary married Grenville Lindall Winthrop, son of Robert Winthrop and Karherine Wilson Taylor, on Jun 2, 1892. Mary Talmadge Trevor died on Dec 1, 1900 at Glenview, Yonkers, Westchester County, New York.
     

      Emily Lindall Winthrop was born circa 1893 at New York. She was the daughter of Grenville Lindall Winthrop and Mary Talmadge Trevor. Emily married Corey Lucien Miles on Sep 6, 1924.

      Kate Winthrop was born circa 1902 at New York. She was the daughter of Grenville Lindall Winthrop and Mary Talmadge Trevor. Kate married Darwin Spurr Morse, son of Thomas S. Morse and Jessie Maria Cooper, circa 1924.

      Katherine Taylor Winthrop was born on Feb 8, 1866. She was the daughter of Robert Winthrop and Karherine Wilson Taylor. Katherine married Senator Hamilton Fish Kean, son of John Kean and Lucy Halstead, on Jan 12, 1888.

      Senator Hamilton Fish Kean was born on Feb 27, 1862 at Urseno near, Elizabeth, Union County, New Jersey. He was the son of John Kean and Lucy Halstead. Hamilton married Katherine Taylor Winthrop, daughter of Robert Winthrop and Karherine Wilson Taylor, on Jan 12, 1888. Senator Hamilton Fish Kean died on Dec 27, 1941 at New York City, New York County, New York, at age 79. Hamilton was buried at Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York.
     He resided at at Elizabeth, Union County, New Jersey. He held the position of Senator from the State of New Jersey between Mar 4, 1929 and Jan 3, 1935.

Hamilton Fish Kean (February 27, 1862 – December 27, 1941) was a U.S. senator from New Jersey.

Kean was the son of Lucy (née Halstead) and John Kean. He was related to several prominent American politicians including his great-grandfather John Kean (1756–1795), his brother John Kean (1852–1914), and his son Robert Kean. He was named after his great uncle Hamilton Fish.

Kean was born at "Ursino", his ancestral estate near Elizabeth, New Jersey. He attended the public schools of Elizabeth, graduated from St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire, and engaged in banking and agricultural pursuits. Kean was a member of the Republican National Committee from 1919 to 1928. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination for United States Senator in 1924 and was elected to the Senate in 1928, serving a single six-year term before a failed re-election bid. After his political career, he worked in banking until his death in 1941 in New York City. He was interred in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.

      Captain John Kean was born on Nov 22, 1888. He was the son of Senator Hamilton Fish Kean and Katherine Taylor Winthrop. John married Mary Alice Barney on Jan 20, 1925.
     

Captain John Kean, who was the son of Hamilton Fish Kean and Katharine Winthrop Kean. He was a graduate of Harvard University and Harvard Law School. He was an accomplished horseman and saw his first military service in 1914 with the cavalry patrol of the New Jersey National Guard at the Mexican border. He was later wounded in France as a member of the American Expeditionary Force during World War I.

After the war, John got involved in the family businesses, eventually becoming president of the National State Bank, the Elizabethtown Water Company and the Elizabethtown Consolidated Gas Company.

The Captain married Mary Alice Barney in 1925 and brought her home to Liberty Hall in 1932. She was a New York debutante and the daughter of J. Stewart Barney and Mary Alice Van Nest. Mary Alice fell in love with the house and spent countless hours researching its and her family’s history. She was the motivating force behind not only Liberty Hall’s restoration but also of many of the historic homes in the surrounding area. Liberty Hall Museum was Mary Alice’s dream and her children, May, John, and Stewart, are proud to have made it a reality.

     John married Lucy Halstead.

     Lucy married John Kean.

     Mary married Captain John Kean, son of Senator Hamilton Fish Kean and Katherine Taylor Winthrop, on Jan 20, 1925.

      Mary Alice Kean was born on Oct 14, 1927. She was the daughter of Captain John Kean and Mary Alice Barney.

      John Kean was born on Oct 28, 1929. He was the son of Captain John Kean and Mary Alice Barney.

     (Unknown) Kean was the son of Captain John Kean and Mary Alice Barney.

     (Unknown) Kean was the daughter of Lt. Robert Winthrop Kean and Elizabeth Stuyvesant Howard.

     Kate Taylor Winthrop died on Jun 3, 1860. She was born on Jun 3, 1860. She was the daughter of Robert Winthrop and Karherine Wilson Taylor.

      Corey Lucien Miles was born on Aug 7, 1891 at Milton, Crittenden County, Vermont. Corey married Emily Lindall Winthrop, daughter of Grenville Lindall Winthrop and Mary Talmadge Trevor, on Sep 6, 1924.
     Corey Lucien Miles was also known as Corey Lucius Miles.

      Darwin Spurr Morse was born on May 12, 1901 at Massachusetts. He was the son of Thomas S. Morse and Jessie Maria Cooper. Darwin married Kate Winthrop, daughter of Grenville Lindall Winthrop and Mary Talmadge Trevor, circa 1924.

      Thomas Spurr Morse was born on May 25, 1925. He was the son of Darwin Spurr Morse and Kate Winthrop.

      Robert Floyd Morse was born on Mar 31, 1927. He was the son of Darwin Spurr Morse and Kate Winthrop.

     Thomas married Jessie Maria Cooper.

     Jessie married Thomas S. Morse.

      Frederic Bayard Winthrop was born circa 1868 at New York. He was the son of Robert Winthrop and Karherine Wilson Taylor. Frederic married Dorothy Amory, daughter of Charles Walter Amory and Elizabeth Gardner, on Jan 20, 1903 at Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. Frederic married Sarah Barrol Thayer on Jul 12, 1911. Frederic Bayard Winthrop died in 1932.

      Dorothy Amory was born on Jul 17, 1878 at Beverly Farms, Essex County, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of Charles Walter Amory and Elizabeth Gardner. Dorothy married Frederic Bayard Winthrop, son of Robert Winthrop and Karherine Wilson Taylor, on Jan 20, 1903 at Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. Dorothy Amory died on Jul 23, 1907 at age 29.
     

Thomas Nelson Perkins was an usher at the marriage of James Abercrombie Burden to William Douglas Sloane's daughter Adele. Frederick W. Winthrop was best man, and the other ushers were G. Richmond Fearing Jr., C.C. Baldwin, Louis Adams Frothingham, Rufus K. Thomas, and George Baty Bates, all Harvard friends and members of the Porcellian Club. (A notable Wedding at Lenox. New York Times, Jun. 2, 1895.)

Perkins was an usher at the wedding of Frederick Winthrop to Dorothy Amory, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Amory of Boston. Grenville Winthrop was best man. The other ushers were William Amory 2d and George G. Amory, the bride's brothers; Hugh Whitney, Ingersoll Amory, J.A. Burden Jr. and F.N. Watriss of New York; Francis R. Bangs and Rudolph L. Agassiz of Boston; and Nicholas Longworth of Cincinnati. Mary Curtis and Marjorie Cochran were bridesmaids, and the pages were the two sons of Mr. and Mrs. T. Jefferson Coolidge, née Clara Amory. (A Day's Weddings. New York Times, Jan. 21, 1903.).

     Charles married Elizabeth Gardner.

     Elizabeth married Charles Walter Amory.

      Robert Winthrop was born on Jan 21, 1904 at Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. He was the son of Frederic Bayard Winthrop and Dorothy Amory. Robert married Theodora Ayer on Apr 9, 1928; 3 children. Robert Winthrop died on Sep 25, 1999 at age 95.
     

Robert Winthrop

Robert Winthrop, 95, of Upper Brookville, died on Sept. 25, 1999. He was born in Boston on Jan. 21, 1904, son of Frederic Winthrop and Dorothy Amory Winthrop. He was a direct descendent of John Winthrop, founder and governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He graduated from St. Mark's School and Harvard College Class of 1926 where he was stroke of the University Crew and captain his last year. He was an officer in the US Naval Reserve during WWII retiring in 1945 as a commander.

Mr. Winthrop worked as a clerk in the National City Bank and was director, trustee (including the Village of Old Westbury) and on the board of several firms. He joined Robert Winthrop & Company in 1939. He was a partner until 1963 when the firm merged with Wood, Struthers, & Winthrop. He then became a senior partner.

Mr. Winthrop was a member of the LI State Park Commission, trustee and board member of Nassau Hospital in Mineola and its president for many years. It was in 1985 when the board decided to change the name from Nassau Hospital to its current name because of Mr. Winthrop's efforts. He was trustee and vice president of the Presbyterian Hospital in NY. He also held positions with several schools, universities and medical societies and served on many school boards.

Mr. Winthrop was a philanthropist, sportsman and conservationist. He was a founding member of the International Atlantic Salmon Foundation and served as director on its board for many years. He also served on the ASF (US) Board of Directors and as vice chairman of the Executive Committee. The Board Room in ASF's Administration Building is dedicated to Robert Winthrop in acknowledgement of his counsel and support which he offered in the organization's early stages and continued without falter. He was also associated with the NY Zoological Society and the North American Wildlife Foundation.

Mr. Winthrop was the husband of Floreine (Nelson). Father of Theodora W. Hooton, Cornelia W. Bonnie and the late E. Amory Winthrop. Stepfather of Susan J. Mojonnier and Charlene R. Townsend. Grandfather of Thomas L. Higginson Jr., Elizabeth H. Ridman, Robert W. Higginson, Shelby W. Bonnie and Robert F. Bonnie. Great-grandfather of seven. Uncle of many nieces and nephews.

Arrangements were made by the Dodge-Thomas Funeral Home, Glen Cove. Service at the Church of the Advent. Interment Friends Cemetery. Donations can be made to Winthrop-University Hospital, Mineola, NY 11501.

      Theodora Ayer was born circa 1906 at Massachusetts. Theodora married Robert Winthrop, son of Frederic Bayard Winthrop and Dorothy Amory, on Apr 9, 1928; 3 children.

      Theodora Winthrop was born on Jul 16, 1929 at New York. She was the daughter of Robert Winthrop and Theodora Ayer.

      Dorothy Winthrop was born on May 21, 1905 at New York City, New York County, New York. She was born circa 1906 at Massachusetts. She was the daughter of Frederic Bayard Winthrop and Dorothy Amory. Dorothy married Standish Bradford on Aug 29, 1931. Dorothy Winthrop died on Nov 29, 1987 at South Hamilton, Essex County, Massachusetts.

      Standish Bradford was born on Sep 23, 1900 at New Jersey. Standish married Dorothy Winthrop, daughter of Frederic Bayard Winthrop and Dorothy Amory, on Aug 29, 1931. Standish Bradford died on Jun 19, 1983 at South Hamilton, Essex County, Massachusetts, at age 82.

      Frederic Winthrop Jr. was born circa 1906. He was the son of Frederic Bayard Winthrop and Dorothy Amory. Frederic married Angela Elizabeth Forbes on Jul 4, 1933.

     Angela married Frederic Winthrop Jr., son of Frederic Bayard Winthrop and Dorothy Amory, on Jul 4, 1933.

     Sarah married Frederic Bayard Winthrop, son of Robert Winthrop and Karherine Wilson Taylor, on Jul 12, 1911.

      Katherine Winthrop was born circa 1915 at Massachusetts. She was the daughter of Frederic Bayard Winthrop and Sarah Barrol Thayer.

      John Winthrop was born on Jun 4, 1913. He was the son of Frederic Bayard Winthrop and Sarah Barrol Thayer. John Winthrop died on Mar 12, 1915 at age 1.

      Nathaniel Thayer Winthrop was born on May 20, 1912. He was the son of Frederic Bayard Winthrop and Sarah Barrol Thayer. Nathaniel married Serita Bartlett on Jul 3, 1935.

     Serita married Nathaniel Thayer Winthrop, son of Frederic Bayard Winthrop and Sarah Barrol Thayer, on Jul 3, 1935.

      Albertina Taylor Winthrop was born in 1871 at New York City, New York County, New York. She was the daughter of Robert Winthrop and Karherine Wilson Taylor. Albertina married Jan Herman Roijan on May 17, 1904. Albertina Taylor Winthrop died on Apr 19, 1934 at The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands.

     Jan married Albertina Taylor Winthrop, daughter of Robert Winthrop and Karherine Wilson Taylor, on May 17, 1904. Jan Herman Roijan died in 1933.

     Robert Dudly Roijan was the son of Jan Herman Roijan and Albertina Taylor Winthrop. Robert married Hildegarde Graham on Jun 21, 1938.

     Hildegarde married Robert Dudly Roijan, son of Jan Herman Roijan and Albertina Taylor Winthrop, on Jun 21, 1938.

      Jan Herman Roijan was born on Apr 10, 1905 at Istanbul, Turkey. He was the son of Jan Herman Roijan and Albertina Taylor Winthrop. Jan married Anne Snouckhurgrange on Dec 13, 1934. Jan Herman Roijan died on Mar 16, 1991 at Wassenaar, South Holland, Netherlands, at age 85.
     He resided at at The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands.

ROIJEN, Jan Herman (1905-1991)

Roijen, Jan Herman van, diplomat and minister (Constantinople (Turkey) 10-4-1905 - Wassenaar 16-3-1991). Son of Jan Hermannus of Roijen, diplomat, and Albertina Taylor Winthrop. Married 13-12-1934 with jkvr. Anne Snouck Hurgronje birth (dob 1913). From this marriage, 2 sons and 2 daughters born.

'Nourri dans le serai' was well Herman van Roijen said, in an allusion to his birthplace and the fact that his father was a diplomat. Indeed, he brought his childhood years in the various capitals where his father was envoy: Tokyo, Madrid, Rome. Education he received from governors. Only at its seventeenth year he went to a school in the Netherlands: the Second Municipal Gymnasium in The Hague, where he did graduation in 1923.

In September of that year Roijen From left to register for the Utrecht University law school. He was an active member of the corps, which he nicknamed 'Lord' gave. According to reports, this happened because he was not the only member of his noble-year club still had to have a title. But this nickname also fit well with were all courteous and reserved action. On November 9, 1927 did Graduate From Roijen, a half years later, on April 26, 1929, followed by his PhD in Professor JHW cum laude Verzijl The thesis on the legal and international recognition of new states and de facto regime rings.

From Roijen decided in his father's footsteps and reported for the diplomatic service. Attaché in 1930 after the exam passed, he was to have traveled to Washington, where his father since 1926 held the post of envoy. It was a hard school, the harder for him because his father did not even want the appearance arouse him above others to withdraw. After two years of Roijen turned back to the Netherlands to the Secretary examination. That he succeeded in January 1933. The Chairman of the Board of Examiners called him "far primus' of the four candidates' very good, but theoretical and weighty" (E. Heldring, Memories and diary II (Groningen 1970) 1022). Then he was three years working at the Department of Diplomatic Affairs at the Hague department. In that time he learned to know his later wife, daughter of the then Secretary-General, jhr. AM Snouck Hurgronje. In 1936 Van Roijen was posted as secretary to the embassy in Tokyo, in those years a major - albeit little coveted - post, given the growing threat of Japanese aggression against the Dutch East Indies.

From early August 1939 was Roijen, 34 years old, was appointed chief of the Department of Diplomatic Affairs as the successor of EN Kleffnes of that same month, Minister of Foreign Affairs would be. As such, Van Roijen had at the time of the German invasion the actual management of the department, because the minister had gone to London and Secretary-General Snouck Hurgronje in the almost permanent income Ministerial Council meeting was replaced. In May 1940, he was responsible for the burning of the archives of the Ministry.

Already in November 1940 was Van Roijen by the Germans arrested because they were found out that his ministry illegal, at UK-based news radio messages were produced. After three months later he was released in the course of 1941 re-held and dismissed from his post. Weather at large, he continued his illegal activities. A long time was a member of the Van Roijen Vaderlandsche Committee, the body of the former representatives of political parties and prominent individuals in other areas of society. He also had contact with the German resistance against Hitler which culminated in the failed attacks of July 20, 1944. Meanwhile, he was in January 1944 for the third time arrested, but after two months re-released. Fear it will again be imprisoned, he decided not to return to their homes, but to dive.

After largely southern Netherlands was liberated, Van Roijen was the mission of the College of Trust Men go to London to view differences between the Dutch government and the Confidence Men there to solve. In October 1944 he passed by the canoe lines and he reached London, where he - with interruptions for visits to Washington and Paris liberated - until the end of the war would continue.

In the spring of 1945 Van Roijen lived as a member of the Dutch delegation to the conference in San Francisco, where the United Nations was founded. Immediately thereafter, on June 24, 1945, he was in the Cabinet-Schermerhorn-Drees minister without portfolio. It was intended that he, as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Van Kleffnes, if necessary, would be replaced. From then on Kleffnes works became, he exchanged on March 1, 1946 with him function. As Minister of Foreign Affairs was Van Roijen for the first time directly to the Indonesian issue. In April 1946 he lived as a member of the Dutch delegation at the conference in the Hoge Veluwe. There was fruitless talks with envoys of the Republic of Indonesia, in August 1945 had declared its independence.

From Roijen is only four months, Minister of Foreign Affairs had, because already on July 3, 1946 came to an end the first postwar cabinet. The Socialist leader W. Drees had Van Roijen like in the cabinet Beel (1946-1948) on Foreign Affairs, but the outgoing minister felt that such an politician deserved post - something that would happen only in 1948 - and returned in the foreign service. In April 1947 From Roijen was ambassador to Canada. Ottawa was a quiet post, but that did not mean that life for him was calmer, because while he had often Netherlands at the United Nations in New York represent. The Dutch-Indonesian complications from this task is not easy.

When the crisis with Indonesia the following year toespitste was Roijens From task even more difficult. As acting head of the Dutch delegation at the United Nations warned as early as October 1948 that, in the use of violence, the United States could promulgate sanctions, something the Netherlands, which largely depended on Marshall aid, is difficult to afford. It was decided in December to half police action, the leaders of the Republic were taken prisoner. Practically the whole world turned against the Netherlands when, his allies felt overwhelmed. The acting leader of the U.S. delegation, Ph.C. Jessup, accused The Hague of the Charter of the United Nations to have violated.

In this atmosphere had Van Roijen again defend the Dutch case. That he was not made easier by disagreement in the bosom of the Dutch government itself and because he, in good faith, sometimes had to make statements - including on the treatment of the detainee Republican leaders - subsequently proved to be untrue. Nevertheless knew his dignified, controlled action to enforce admiration of many.

The Netherlands has gradually forced his indomitable attitude towards the Indonesian nationalists to give up. When it arrived to find someone that negotiations with the Republic could easily draw, was again Van Roijen - officially still ambassador in Ottawa - the man designated. So he traveled to Jakarta in April 1949 in order to engage in talks with Mohammed Fame, the chairman of the Republican delegation. He began these negotiations from a position of weakness: the Republic had achieved a political victory, the Dutch government was uncertain, and finally Van Roijen could not support the High Representative of the Crown in Indonesia, LJM Beel, numeracy. At any given moment he had even threatened to resign. But at the end of the arc again for the Dutch government and was the force majeure on May 7, 1949 the so-called Van Roijen-Fame-agreement. Now was the way to the Round-Table Conference, which in late August to early November 1949 in The Hague was held. This would be the independence of Indonesia must seal. From Roijen expressed willingness to be one of the vice-presidents at this conference to act, but on condition that the future of western New Guinea, on which no agreement was reached, there would not lead to a break.

With New Guinea would Roijen From more than ten years later encounter. He was now in September 1950 became ambassador in Washington, and in the Netherlands since 1952 JMAH Luns was Minister of Foreign Affairs. This was a convinced opponent of transfer of the western part of New Guinea to Indonesia and was looking for this support in the United States. From Roijen spoke at an early stage in his opinion that the Netherlands is not on U.S. military aid should count in case of an Indonesian attack. Luns was however a different view and let the Cabinet and parliament unaware of the long view of its ambassador on the spot.

When in 1962 the crisis in an armed conflict threatened to walk out, however, was Van Roijen several occasions of view - based on his experience in Washington - in the Cabinet to explain. Meanwhile, he was in March of that year charged with the task became discussions with an Indonesian delegation to enter. These discussions took - under the auspices of the United Nations and chair of the American diplomat E. Bunker - location in the vicinity of Washington and led to 15 August, 1962 agreement to Dutch New Guinea to Indonesia to be transferred, via an interim administration of the United Nations.

Minister Luns, who are already not great appreciation for Van Roijen had given the - according to him - too pliant attitude of the Indonesian question he would have shown, accused Van Roijen his powers as a negotiator have gone beyond this and the government therefore presented with facts have placed. Indeed, an ambassador has never been so decisive intervention in the government as Van Roijen in the Indonesian and New Guinean issues. He met not only with gratitude, even with old friends and family. In Elseviers Weekly (18-8-1962, p. 1) said HA Lunshof him, with an allusion to the American nationality of his mother, a 'half Hollander, who only became "America not to untune."

From Roijens position but was virtually untouchable. He was ambassador to Washington, then the most important diplomatic post. The authority that he enjoyed it - apart from his lengthy stay - more than could be expected under the weight of the country that he represented. Only after fourteen years, in 1964, he left the U.S. capital, for the last six years of his active life led to the embassy in London. In 1970 Van Roijen retire and he settled in Wassenaar. One time, the government still appeal to him: when the Netherlands in October 1973 was the victim of an oil boycott of the Arab countries because of its - in their view - too pro-Israeli stance in the Yom Kippur War, he went as Ambassador to Special Mission to Saudi Arabia. His mission had no success. In the seventies, he was one of the people who princess Beatrix advised on a restructuring of the royal court after her coronation.

Unlike some fellow diplomats behaved From Roijen never haughty, patronizing or cynical. He was always courteous and appropriate, and on top a 'grand SEIGNEUR. "It showed he was an interested listener. Since Van Roijen for those reasons by the Indonesians was high, he was ideally suited to - twice - the jammed relations with them from the slop to help. But others had a high opinion of him, all came to some understanding that only long after the facts had given him the same. Among the honors he received were the Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Award in 1982 and the Wateler Peace in 1983. In the United States gave the universities of the city and the state of New York and Yale University and Hofstra College in Hampstead him an honorary doctorate in law.

Roijens of realism to ditch his sense of changing social and international relations. Itself is not a member of the Party of Labor, said he sympathizer, especially because this party, according to him, if only had a certain understanding of international politics. From Roijen had an indomitable willpower to. So he gave no to the migraine attacks which he suffered for years, and held it for others hidden. From Roijen showed his courage during the German occupation and later, on a whole other way, when he was right for a rate that in his own country, even by his own ministers, in ignorance, if not resistance, period.

A: Collection of JH-Roijen in the General State Archives in The Hague.

P: The thesis mentioned in the text.

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I: H [aagse] P [ost], 21-3-1981, p. 27 [From Roijen in 1981. Photos by Ronald Hoeben].

JL Heldring

Original version included in: Biographical Dictionary of Holland 5 (Den Haag 2002)
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     Anne married Jan Herman Roijan, son of Jan Herman Roijan and Albertina Taylor Winthrop, on Dec 13, 1934.

      Beekman Winthrop was born on Sep 18, 1874. He was the son of Robert Winthrop and Karherine Wilson Taylor. Beekman married Melza Riggs Wood on Oct 7, 1903. Beekman Winthrop died on Nov 10, 1940 at age 66.
     He held the position of Governor of Puerto Rico between 1904 and 1907.

Beekman Winthrop (September 18, 1874 – November 10, 1940) was a New York lawyer and Governor of Puerto Rico from 1904 to 1907. He was later an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury.

Winthrop came from a family of wealth and influence in New York (though he was born in Orange, New Jersey) and attended Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts where he received an undergraduate degree in 1897 and a law degree in 1900. A descendant of both John Winthrop, first Governor of Massachusetts, and John Winthrop, the Younger, first Governor of Connecticut, within four years after graduating he became first a personal secretary to (future President) William Howard Taft while he was Governor-General of the Philippines, and later was appointed as a judge in the Court of First Instance in the Philippines. He was known to be a personal friend of Theodore Roosevelt and was appointed by him in 1904 as Governor of Puerto Rico, at the age of only 28.

Winthrop took office as governor on July 4, 1904, and served until April 17, 1907. On his inauguration, he promised improvements to the educational system of Puerto Rico. Winthrop was a strong proponent of bringing citizenship and locally-elected officials to Puerto Rico.

In 1907, Winthrop was appointed as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury by President Theodore Roosevelt. In 1909, he was made Assistant Secretary of the Navy by President Taft, a post he retained (with time as Acting Secretary) until 1913.

Following his public life, he was a director of National City Bank. He resigned from that position in 1916. He subsequently worked as a director of Robert Winthrop and Co.

      Melza Riggs Wood was born in 1875. Melza married Beekman Winthrop, son of Robert Winthrop and Karherine Wilson Taylor, on Oct 7, 1903.

     Lawrence married Charlotte Kane, daughter of John Kintzing Kane and Maria Codwise, on Mar 18, 1835.

     Caroline Strong was the daughter of Rev. Paschal Neilson Strong and Cornelia Adelaide Kane.

      Pascal Neilson Strong was born on Jun 30, 1820 at New York. He was the son of Rev. Paschal Neilson Strong and Cornelia Adelaide Kane. Pascal married Louisa Harriet Hall, daughter of Charles Holland Hall and Margaret Cecelia Catharine Reid, on Sep 20, 1845 at Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia. Pascal Neilson Strong died on Mar 13, 1892 at New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, at age 71.

      Louisa Harriet Hall was born on Sep 28, 1822 at Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia. She was the daughter of Charles Holland Hall and Margaret Cecelia Catharine Reid. Louisa married Pascal Neilson Strong, son of Rev. Paschal Neilson Strong and Cornelia Adelaide Kane, on Sep 20, 1845 at Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia. Louisa Harriet Hall died in 1906 at Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia.

      Rev. Charles Hall Strong was born on Dec 29, 1850 at New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana. He was the son of Pascal Neilson Strong and Louisa Harriet Hall. Charles married Jennie Butler Rich, daughter of Edward S. Rich and Mary S. Butler, circa 1874. Rev. Charles Hall Strong died in 1914 at Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia.
     He Rector, Saint John's Church, Savannah, GA between 1878 and 1914.

      Cornelia Kane Strong was born on Dec 4, 1846 at Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia. She was the daughter of Pascal Neilson Strong and Louisa Harriet Hall. Cornelia married Amasa John Parker, son of Dexter Parker and Esther Piper.

      Amasa John Parker was born on Feb 15, 1843 at Weathersfield, Windsor County, Vermont. He was the son of Dexter Parker and Esther Piper. Amasa married Sarah Jane Lockwood, daughter of William Lockwood and Hannah Augusta, in 1864 at Rutland, Rutland County, Vermont. Amasa married Elizabeth J. Prentiss circa 1889 at Rutland, Dane County, Wisconsin. Amasa married Cornelia Kane Strong, daughter of Pascal Neilson Strong and Louisa Harriet Hall.

     Dexter married Esther Piper on Aug 27, 1834.

     Charles married Margaret Cecelia Catharine Reid.

     Margaret married Charles Holland Hall.

      Margaret Cecilia Strong was born on Oct 20, 1848 at Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia. She was the daughter of Pascal Neilson Strong and Louisa Harriet Hall. Margaret Cecilia Strong died on May 23, 1849.

      Jennie Butler Rich was born on Feb 6, 1856 at Syracuse, Onondaga County, New York. She was the daughter of Edward S. Rich and Mary S. Butler. Jennie married Rev. Charles Hall Strong, son of Pascal Neilson Strong and Louisa Harriet Hall, circa 1874. Jennie Butler Rich died on Dec 30, 1915 at Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia, at age 59.

      Paschal Neilson Strong was born on Apr 17, 1875. He was the son of Rev. Charles Hall Strong and Jennie Butler Rich.

      Ormond Butler Strong was born on Apr 3, 1878. He was the son of Rev. Charles Hall Strong and Jennie Butler Rich.

     Edward married Mary S. Butler.

     Mary married Edward S. Rich.

      Charles Hall Strong Jr. was born on Oct 5, 1883 at New York. He was the son of Rev. Charles Hall Strong and Jennie Butler Rich. Charles Hall Strong Jr. died on Dec 27, 1968 at DeKalb County, Georgia, at age 85.