Ancestry of
Robert Frost
Poet and Playwright
Who was Robert Frost?
Robert Frost was an American poet who also wrote a number of plays. He was born Robert Lee Frost on 26 March 1874 in San Francisco, California, to William Prescott Frost, Jr. and Isabelle Moodie. His father was an editor of the San Francisco Evening Bulletin who diedd when Robert was only 11 years old.
In 1894 Robert Frost sold his first poem to the New York Independent for just $5. He would go on to win four Pulitzer prizes and a U.S. Congressional Gold Medal. At the inauguration for President John F. Kennedy in 1961, Robert Frost read his poem The Gift Outright. He and President Kennedy would both die just two years later.
Famous Kin
Robert Frost's famous kin include a number of U.S. presidents including William Howard Taft, Millard Fillmore, Calvin Coolidge, and both George Bushes. Entertainers Lucille Ball, Raquel Welch and Buffalo Bill are also among his kin. These are just a few examples of Robert Frost's famous kin.
Some of the most recently added connections of famous kin for Robert Frost
Rob Cantor
Singer and Songwriter
16th cousin 4 times removed
via Gruffydd Fychan ap Gruffydd of Rhuddallt
Charlie Munger
Vice-Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway
19th cousin 2 times removed
via Bartholomew de Badlesmere
Charlie Munger
Vice-Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway
18th cousin 2 times removed
via Eleanor Plantagenet
Charlie Munger
Vice-Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway
19th cousin 2 times removed
via Sir William de Ros
Nathaniel Philbrick
Author of In the Heart of the Sea
18th cousin 3 times removed
via Eleanor Plantagenet
Grace Slick
Singer, Songwriter - Jefferson Airplane
19th cousin 1 time removed
via Bartholomew de Badlesmere
Grace Slick
Singer, Songwriter - Jefferson Airplane
18th cousin 1 time removed
via Eleanor Plantagenet
Grace Slick
Singer, Songwriter - Jefferson Airplane
19th cousin 1 time removed
via Sir William de Ros
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