On this date in 1905, Eleanor Anna Roosevelt, the niece of President Theodore Roosevelt, married her fifth cousin, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

They were married in the home of Eleanor’s cousin on East 76th Street in Manhattan, and was given away by her Uncle Teddy. It was the birthday of Eleanor’s late mother, Anna Hall Roosevelt.

My NYC apartment was at Third & East 76th streets, several blocks west of the site where they were married. There is a plaque commemorating the site of their wedding.