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Grace Slick

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Grace Slick

Singer, Songwriter - Jefferson Airplane


Who is Grace Slick?

Grace Slick (born Grace Barnett Wing) is an American singer and songwriter who is best known as one of the lead singers for the rock bands Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, and Starship. She was nominated for a Grammy award as Best Rock Female vocalist in 1981 for her solo album Dreams. In 1996 she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Famous Kin

Grace Slick is a direct descendant of Mayflower passengers Myles Standish and William White. She has a number of presidential kin including, but not limited to, Millard Fillmore, Calvin Coolidge, James Garfield, Abraham Lincoln, and Ulysses S. Grant. Grace also has a connection to the current royal family through a common ancestor with Princess Diana.

Family Facts

The Whitman Massacre

Perrin Beza Whitman is the 2nd great-grandfather of Grace Slick. In 1843, when he was still a boy, his father consented to him heading west with his uncle Dr. Marcus Whitman. Perrin Beza Whitman was with Dr. Whitman when he led the first large party of wagon trains along the Oregon Trail. He helped his uncle establish a mission among the Cayuse tribe and learned much in the ways of the Indians and their languages.

In 1847, a measles epidemic wiped out all of the Cayuse children and half of the adults. Suspecting that the Whitman's were responsible, the Cayuse slaughtered Dr. Whitman, his wife and 12 other settlers in what became known as the Whitman Massacre. Young Perrin Whitman was not present when the massacre took place and learned about it almost two weeks later when a friendly Nez Perce native came to warn him that the Cayuse had put a bounty of a hundred head of horses for his scalp. Five of the Cayuse would eventually surrender and be hanged for their part in the Whitman Massacre.

Perrin Beza Whitman would go on to be the Indian agent and interpreter at the Lapwai Agency in Nez Perce County, Idaho. His respect among the Nez Perce was such that when the U.S. government tried to establish a treaty with them in 1865, the Nez Perce would not even consider the subject of a treaty without first summoning Perrin Whitman to be present. It was upon the successful completion of the treaty that Perrin Whitman was made an official interpreter for both the Indian department and war department.


Some of the most recently added connections of famous kin for Grace Slick

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Henry Bass

Boston Tea Part participant

17th cousin 4 times removed
via Isabella de Beauchamp

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Henry Bass

Boston Tea Part participant

18th cousin 3 times removed
via Sir Hugh le Despencer

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George Palmer Putnam

Founder, G.P. Putnam's Sons

6th cousin 5 times removed
via Richard Hutchinson

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Allison Janney

TV, Movie and Stage Actress

11th cousin
via Richard Hutchinson

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Horatio Collins King

Medal of Honor Recipient
U.S. Civil War

6th cousin 4 times removed
via John Whitman

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Roger B. Chaffee

Apollo 1 Astronaut

9th cousin 1 time removed
via William Sabin

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Emily Strayer

Singer, Songwriter - Dixie Chicks

10th cousin 1 time removed
via John Whitman

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Martie Maguire

Musician, Songwriter - Dixie Chicks

10th cousin 1 time removed
via John Whitman

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Matthew Modine

TV and Movie Actor

8th cousin
via Jabez Fairbank

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Matthew Modine

TV and Movie Actor

15th cousin
via Robert White

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Richard A. Snelling

76th and 78th Governor of Vermont

9th cousin 2 times removed
via William White

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Orson Bean

TV Actor

9th cousin
via William Sabin

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William H. Avery

37th Governor of Kansas

20th cousin 1 time removed
via Sir William de Ros

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Matthew Perry

TV and Movie Actor

10th cousin
via Samuel Allen

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Jim Douglas

80th Governor of Vermont

15th cousin
via John Giffard

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Endicott Peabody

62nd Governor of Massachusetts

17th cousin
via Sir John Throckmorton

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Porter Goss

1st Director of the C.I.A.
19th and last Dir. of Central Intelligence

19th cousin 2 times removed
via Eleanor Plantagenet

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Elon Musk

CEO of Tesla, Founder and CEO of SpaceX

10th cousin 1 time removed
via Thomas Green Sr.

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Alec Baldwin

Television and Movie Actor

20th cousin 1 time removed
via Bartholomew de Badlesmere

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Alec Baldwin

Television and Movie Actor

19th cousin 1 time removed
via Eleanor Plantagenet

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Alfred Ely Beach

Co-founder & Editor, Scientific American

8th cousin 1 time removed
via John Thompson

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Rabbit Maranville

MLB Hall of Fame

8th cousin 2 times removed
via Resolved White

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Charles King

9th President of Columbia College

5th cousin 4 times removed
via John Alcock

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Jon Meacham

Author and Historian

10th cousin 2 times removed
via Myles Standish

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Kate Brown

38th Governor of Oregon

10th cousin 2 times removed
via Rev. Stephen Bachiler

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