In 1880, the twenty-six-year-old Sara Delano, now a regal and striking young woman, married fifty-three-year-old widower James Roosevelt, whose mother Rebecca had been the niece of William Henry Aspinwall. Tall and white-whiskered, “Squire” Roosevelt had promised Warren Delano that his bride would live in the utmost security and comfort at his own Hudson River estate at Hyde Park. The October wedding was held at Algonac. Some of the women present in the Delano parlor wept with sadness that “such a lovely girl should
