Ancestry of
Helen (Herron) Taft

First Lady of President William H. Taft

Harriet Anne Collins

View famous kin of Harriet Anne Collins

• • Mother of Helen (Herron) Taft — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 3 
  • Father:
  • Ela Collins 
  • Mother:
  • Maria Clinton   
  • Birth Date:
  • 15 Sep 1833 
  • Birth Location:
  • Lowville, Lewis, New York 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 25 Jan 1902 
  • Death Location:
  • Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio 
  • Spouse Name:
  • John Williamson Herron
  • Marriage Date:
  • 7 Mar 1854 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio 
  • Child:

  Helen Louise "Nellie" Herron (Ahnentafel No:1 )

• Sources for Harriet Anne Collins

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 02/25/2013).
  • ² Meriden Morning Record, 29 JUN 1910, p. 6.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1915, Vol. 69, p. 210.
  • ⁴ Ohio Deaths and Burials, 1854-1997, Death record for Harriet C. Herron.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "The Royal Descents of Jane Pierce, Alice and Edith Roosevelt, Helen Taft, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Barbara Bush", (accessed 09/30/2014).
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 109.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 405.
  • ⁸ Wikipedia, "Ela Collins", (accessed 02/25/2013).
  • ⁹ Wikipedia, "Helen Herron Taft", (accessed 02/25/2013).