Ancestry of
James Merrill
Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet
The family tree for James Merrill is still in progress.
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Some of the most recently added connections of famous kin for James Merrill
Charles Johnson Maynard
Naturalist and Ornithologist
5th cousin 3 times removed
via Robert Harrington
Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz
1st President of Radcliff College
8th cousin 3 times removed
via Edmund Sherman
Brig. Gen. Henry Clay Wood
Medal of Honor Recipient
U.S. Civil War
6th cousin 3 times removed
via John Alden
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James Merrill image by Judith Moffett (CC BY 3.0)
