Morgenthau family leisure activities at their farm in New York

At the Morgenthau family farm called The Homestead - Fishkill Farms, ca. 1926, Henry III, Robert and Joan play in a pool. They play with a puppy outside. Father Henry Morgenthau Jr. and his wife Elinor Fatman Morgenthau, hold hands with Henry III, Joan, and Robert while walking outside, then play baseball. 00:01:25 Joan talks to Henry Jr. as he films her sitting at the beach in Weekapoag, Rhode Island, probably in August in the mid-1920s when visiting the Weekapoag Inn where the family rented a cottage. The three children sing. Henry and Robert on a rented sailboat called the Mahogany. The children swim in the ocean. Cows and horses at a fairground at the Rhinebeck County Fair. Robert and Henry III were active in 4H, so they each raised and showed calves and competed on horseback. Sailing again. At the ocean in Rhode Island, Elinor comes out of the waves. Joan learning to row. 4-H fair. Climbing Mt. Marcy at the Ausable Club in Essex County. Joan at the new farm. 00:05:47 Joan and Henry Jr. eat watermelon next to a stream. The children play on the exercise equipment in the yard of their new farm, Mount Hornes. Joan plays with Richard Ince, a Columbia college student who tutored the children during the summer because Henry Jr. and Elinor thought the children needed a strong male role model [he later was partner at a Wall Street firm]. Diving into the pool and horseback riding. 00:07:04 Elinor, Robert and Joan ride in a horse drawn sleigh as Henry III drives the horse and sleigh. They are with a nurse, Maude Laning, who was also a nurse for George Haas's family. Schoolboys, including Henry III. The children collect firewood and a man uses a mechanized saw to cut down a tree on the farm. Henry III and Robert ride double on a bicycle, walk with Henry Jr., and play with a dog in a street outside their farm. Good CUs of the three children. 00:09:27 At a rodeo, possibly a dude ranch in Colorado owned by the Boyer family. EXT of the Morgenthau 2,000 acre farm. Henry III, Robert and Joan sled outside in the snow, skate, and play hockey on an artificial pond on the property. Joan and her pet sheep. 00:12:22 Glimpse of sleigh seen earlier. 00:12:24 During warmer weather, the children plant trees -- they planted thousands of Red Pine during their childhood. Henry Morgenthau, Jr. was born on May 11, 1891 in New York, NY, and was raised in a secular German Jewish family. His father, Henry Morgenthau, Sr., was appointed Wilson’s ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, 1913-1916, and Henry Jr. visited his father in Istanbul. Though Henry attended Cornell University, he did not graduate but instead bought a large farm in Dutchess County, NY, near the home of Franklin Roosevelt. The two men became friends. In 1916, Henry met and married Elinor Fatman; the couple had three children: Henry III (b. 1917), Robert (b. 1919), and Joan (1922-2012). Henry intended to make a living as a farmer, and also published the American Agriculturalist magazine. When Roosevelt was elected governor, Henry was appointed to an agricultural advisory committee. In 1934, Morgenthau was appointed as U.S. Secretary of Treasury under President Franklin D. Roosevelt and was largely responsible for the creation of the War Refugee Board in January 1944. After Morgenthau's resignation in July 1945, he became more heavily involved in Jewish affairs. He became General Chairman of the United Jewish Appeal and was a financial advisor to the newly-created state of Israel. “Tal Shahar,” an agricultural community near Jerusalem, was named in his honor. After Elinor’s death in 1949, Morgenthau married Marcelle Morgenthau in 1952. He passed away in 1967. Learn more about the Morgenthau family from the feature documentary "Morgenthau" (2014) at http://watch.thirteen.org/video/2365250608/.