Ancestry of
Hugh Hefner

Founder of Playboy Magazine

Glenn Lucius Hefner

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• • Father of Hugh Hefner — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2 
  • Father:
  • James Marston Hefner 
  • Mother:
  • Lois Nina Householder   
  • Birth Date:
  • 27 Jun 1896 
  • Birth Location:
  • Atlanta, Phelps, Nebraska 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 24 Jul 1976 
  • Death Location:
  • Sturgeon Bay, Door, Wisconsin 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Elmwood Cemetery and Mausoleum, River Grove, Cook, Illinois 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Grace Caroline Swanson
  • Marriage Date:
  • 27 Jun 1921 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Chicago, Cook, Illinois 
  • Child:

  Hugh Marston Hefner (Ahnentafel No:1 )

• Sources for Glenn Lucius Hefner

  • ¹ Federal Census, IL, Cook County, 1930, Chicago, Ward 37, Pct 34, Block 236, ED #16-265, Sheet 16A.
  • ² Federal Census, NE, Phelps County, 1900, Industry, ED #148, Sheet 13B, Image 8 of 13.
  • ³ Federal Census, IL, Cook County, 1940, Chicago, E.D. 103-2254B, Sheet 2A, Image 3 of 40.
  • ⁴ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 12/05/2013).
  • ⁵ U.S., Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File, 1850-2010, Death record for Glenn Hefner.
  • ⁶ U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014, Death record for Glenn Hefner.
  • ⁷ U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942, Draft registration for Glenn Lucius Hefner.
  • ⁸ Wisconsin Death Index, 1959-1997, Death record for Glenn L. Hefner.
  • ⁹ Green, Helen Burcham, Burcham, Householder, Green and Stewart 1430 to 1995, S.I.: H.B. Green (1995), 171.
  • ¹⁰ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 359.
  • ¹¹ Wikipedia, "Hugh Hefner", (accessed 12/05/2013).

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