Ancestry of
Archibald MacLeish

American Poet and Playwright

Archibald MacLeish

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • Andrew MacLeish 
  • Mother:
  • Martha Hillard   
  • Birth Date:
  • 7 May 1892 
  • Birth Location:
  • Glencoe, Cook, Illinois 
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  • Death Date:
  • 20 Apr 1982 
  • Death Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Notes: 

  • American Poet and Playwright

    9th Librarian of Congress

    Pulitzer Prize in drama, 1959

    Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1977

• Marriages for Archibald MacLeish

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  • Spouse:
  • Ada Taylor Hitchcock

• Sources for Archibald MacLeish

  • ¹ Chicago Tribune (Chicago, Illinois), 15 JAN 1928, p. 12, Obituary for father Andrew MacLeish.
  • ² Chicago Tribune (Chicago, Illinois), 21 DEC 1947, p. 38, Obituary for mother Martha Hillard MacLeish.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1982, Vol. 136, pp. 322, 329.
  • ⁴ The Mayflower Descendant, 1922, Vol. 24, p. 47.
  • ⁵ Marquis, Albert Nelson, ed., The Book of Chicagoans: A Biographical Dictionary of Leading Living Men of the City of Chicago, Chicago: A.N. Marquis and Company (1911), 449.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#48 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: The Ancestry of Novelist Thomas Pynchon", (accessed 11/28/2018).
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 178.
  • ⁸ Watson, Marston, Royal Families: Americans of Royal and Noble Ancestry, Volume 3, Samuel Appleton and His Wife Judith Everard . . ., Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (2007), 242.
  • ⁹ Wikipedia, "Archibald MacLeish", (accessed 11/28/2018).