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Yes. In relation to Theodore, Franklin Roosevelt was a distant cousin who later become a nephew-in-law, when he married Teddy's niece, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt. Franklin and Theodore Roosevelt were both descendants from Dutch colonists, who settled in the New York area in the mid-17th century. According to any Franklin Roosevelt biography, the two were fifth cousins, having a paternal relative in common (Nicholas Roosevelt, 1658-1742).
He was a profligate inventor, who devised the Franklin stove, the lightning rod, bifocals, and the glass armonicaâan instrument for which Mozart, Handel, and Beethoven all composed works. And not least among his many accomplishments, Franklin is often considered the father of American civil society.