Descendants
His son Jonathan married Mercy Warren, granddaughter of Mayflower passenger Richard Warren; among their direct descendants are the author Laura Ingalls Wilder, President Ulysses S. Grant, President Calvin Coolidge, anthropologist Robert Redfield, astronaut Alan B. Shepard, and the poet Conrad Potter Aiken.
Over time, family members migrated to other states including Michigan, Maine, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Virginia, Vermont and as far away as Chile, where today descendants of Captain Paul Delano are numerous and prominent. From the New York clan, Sara Delano married James Roosevelt and their only child, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, became president of the United States.
- Delano family in America
- Columbus Delano (1809–1896), statesman
- Diane Delano, (born 1957), actress
- Francis R. Delano, (1842–1892), banker, railroad executive
- Frederic Adrian Delano, (1863–1953), civil engineer, member of the Commercial Club of Chicago
- Jane Arminda Delano, (1862–1919) nurse
- Hubert Delano, (1917-1999)
- Paul Delano, (1775–1842), Commander of the Chilean Department of the Navy
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, (1882–1945), President of the United States
- William Adams Delano (1874–1960), architect
- Mary Gray-Reeves (daughter of Florence Delano Gray) (born 1962), First woman bishop in California in the Episcopal church
- James Whitlow Delano, photographer
- Delano family namesakes
- Delano, California named for Columbus Delano
- Delano, Minnesota named for Francis R. Delano
- Delano, Pennsylvania and Delano Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania named for Warren Delano II
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