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Jennifer Coolidge

TV and Movie Actress

Joseph Swett Coolidge

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of Jennifer Coolidge — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 16 
  • Father:
  • Tasker Hazard Swett 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Boyer Coolidge   
  • Birth Date:
  • 7 Mar 1829 
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  • Death Date:
  • 1 Mar 1887 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Louisa Coolidge
  • Marriage Date:
  • 7 Nov 1851 
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  Elizabeth Boyer Coolidge

  John Templeman Coolidge (Ahnentafel No:8 )

  Louise Riché Coolidge

  • Notes: 

  • He was born Joseph Coolidge Swett. He changed his name by Act of Legislature, 23 MAY 1851, where he swapped his middle and last names so that his surname became his mother's maiden name of Coolidge.

• Sources for Joseph Swett Coolidge

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 07/25/2023).
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1923, Vol. 77, pp. 296-297.
  • ³ Child, Christopher C., "Coolidge Connections", Vita Brevis, https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/2023/02/coolidge-connections/, (accessed 06/22/2023).
  • ⁴ Coolidge, Emma Downing, Descendants of John and Mary Coolidge of Watertown, Massachusetts, 1630, Boston: Wright and Potter Printing Company (1930), 337.

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