Ancestry of
William Howard Taft

27th U.S. President

William Howard Taft

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • Alphonso Taft   
  • Mother:
  • Louisa "Louise" Maria Torrey   
  • Birth Date:
  • 15 Sep 1857 
  • Birth Location:
  • Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 8 Mar 1930 
  • Death Location:
  • Washington, D.C. 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Arlington Co., Virginia 
  • Notes: 

  • 27th President of the United States and 10th Chief Justice of the United States.

• Marriages for William Howard Taft

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  • Spouse:
  • Helen Louise "Nellie" Herron
  • Marriage Date:
  • 19 Jun 1886
  • Marriage Location:
  • Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio

• Sources for William Howard Taft

  • ¹ American Ancestors Magazine, 2013, Vol. 14.4, p. 52, New England Historic Genealogical Society (Online Database).
  • ² Find A Grave, (accessed 09/24/2012).
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, (New England Historic and Genealogical Society), 1915, Vol. 69, p. 210.
  • ⁴ The American Genealogist, New Haven, Connecticut: D. L. Jacobus (issues newer than 5 years not online), 1945, Vol. 22, pp. 205-210, New England Historic Genealogical Society (Online Database).
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 109.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 168, 563.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 900 Immigrants to the American Colonies, Quebec, or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company (2018), 318.
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 406, 429, 433, 444, 459, 462-463, 481, 486, 489-490, 583.
  • ⁹ Rockwood, Vivian VaLera, Four Centuries of American Descendants of Richard Rockwood of Dorchester 1633, Braintree 1636, Massachusetts, Johnson City, Tennessee: Overmountain Press (2000), 1175-1177.
  • ¹⁰ Wikipedia, "William Howard Taft", (accessed 09/24/2012).