Ancestry of
William Howard Taft

27th U.S. President

Jacob Aldrich

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of William Howard Taft — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 222 
  • Father:
  • (probable) Jacob Aldrich 
  • Mother:
  • (probable) Hulda Thayer   
  • Birth Date:
  • 8 May 1676 
  • Birth Location:
  • Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 23 Aug 1753 
  • Death Location:
  • prob. Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Margery Hayward
  • Marriage Date:
  • 15 Sep 1699 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Mercy Aldrich (Ahnentafel No:111 )

  • Notes: 

  • Jacob Aldrich's surname is also seen as Aldridge.

    Clarence Almon Torrey though the parents of Jacob Aldrich were John and Sarah (Thompson) Aldrich when he published "Some Ancestral Lines of President William Howard Taft" in T.A.G. (1945) 22:205.

• Sources for Jacob Aldrich

  • ¹ The American Genealogist, 1945, Vol. 22, pp. 205, 207, gives Jacob's parents as John and Sarah (Thompson) Aldrich.
  • ² Smith, Dean Crawford, The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton, 1878-1908: Part 3, The Ancestry of Henry Clay Bartlett, 1832-1892, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2004), 247.