Captain Paul Delano (June 15, 1775 – February 4, 1842) was an American born sea captain and a member of the prominent American

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Early life

Delano was born in

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on June 15, 1775, to Nathan Pope Delano and Sarah ( née Tripp) Delano. A descendant of Philip Delano, Paul's paternal grandparents Jethro Delano and Elizabeth (née Pope) Delano. His grandfather Jethro's younger brother, Thomas Delano, was himself the grandfather of Warren Delano Sr. (the father of Franklin Hughes Delano and Warren Delano Jr., as well as a grandfather of

Warren Delano IV Warren Delano IV (July 11, 1852 – September 9, 1920) was an American horseman and coal tycoon. Early life Delano was born at Algonac, the family estate in Balmville near Newburgh, New York in 1852. He was a member of the Delano family as a s ...

Frederic Adrian Delano Frederic Adrian Delano II (September 10, 1863 – March 28, 1953) was an American railroad president who served as the first Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve from 1914 to 1916. After his term as vice chairman, Delano continued to serve as a membe ...

, and

Sara Delano Roosevelt Sara Ann Roosevelt ( Delano; September 21, 1854 – September 7, 1941) was the second wife of James Roosevelt I (from 1880), the mother of President of the United States Franklin Delano Roosevelt, her only child, and subsequently the mother ...

, the mother of U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt).

Career

He moved to

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as Captain of the '' Curiacio'' where he arrived on June 22, 1819, and became an important part of that country's First Chilean Navy Squadron. He came with his two sons, Paul H., and William.William L. Neumann, ''United States Aid to the Chilean Wars of Independence'', The Hispanic American Historical Review, Volume 27, 1947, pp. 204-219 Paul Delano was commissioned as a captain and commanded sixteen troop means of transport of the

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and later he commanded the ''

Lautaro Lautaro (Anglicized as 'Levtaru') ( arn, Lef-Traru " swift hawk") (; 1534? – April 29, 1557) was a young Mapuche toqui known for leading the indigenous resistance against Spanish conquest in Chile and developing the tactics that would conti ...

''. In 1822, he became Captain of the port of

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where he directed the building of the first

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and the first lighthouse of the port in 1837.

Personal life

Delano was married to Ann Ferguson Hinckley. Together, they were the parents of: * Paul Hinckley Delano (1806–1881), who became Lord Admiral Thomas Cochrane's personal aide and, at fourteen years of age, was given command of one of the boarding parties during the capture of the ''Esmeralda'' (1791) in the port of Callao on 5 November 1820. Delano died on February 4, 1842, in

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, Chile.

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External links

Delano website
1775 births 1842 deaths

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American emigrants to Chile People from Fairhaven, Massachusetts Military personnel from Massachusetts Chilean Navy personnel of the Spanish American wars of independence {{Chile-mil-bio-stub

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