Francis Edward Hinckley

Co-Founder of the University of Chicago

Great-grandfather

John Howland

Mayflower Passenger

9th great-grandfather

John Tilley

Mayflower Passenger

10th great-grandfather

Robert I, King of France

35th great-grandfather

Alfred the Great

King of the Anglo-Saxons

36th great-grandfather

Charlemagne

King of the Franks

38th great-grandfather

William Williams

Signer of the Declaration of Independence

2nd cousin 7 times removed via Isaac Williams

Eliphalet Remington

Founder of Remington Arms Company

3rd cousin 6 times removed via Joshua Robbins

Nathaniel Gorham

Signer of the U.S. Constitution

3rd cousin 6 times removed via John Gorham

General Joseph Warren

Killed at Battle of Bunker Hill

3rd cousin 7 times removed via Robert Williams

Bathsheba (Ruggles) Spooner

First woman executed for murder in U.S. by non-British government

3rd cousin 7 times removed via John Howland

Lucretia (Rudolph) Garfield

First Lady of President James Garfield

4th cousin 4 times removed via Benadam "Adam" Gallup

General George B. McClellan

Union Army - U.S. Civil War

4th cousin 4 times removed via Benadam "Adam" Gallup

Elihu Root

38th U.S. Secretary of State

4th cousin 4 times removed via John Root

James Youngs Smith

29th Governor of Rhode Island

4th cousin 4 times removed via Isaac Wheeler

Thomas Waldo Story

English/American Sculptor

4th cousin 4 times removed via Benadam "Adam" Gallup

Eli Whitney

Inventor of the Cotton Gin

4th cousin 5 times removed via Thomas Lothrop

Benedict Arnold

Traitor of the American Revolution

4th cousin 5 times removed via Rev. John Lothrop

Jonathan Worth

39th Governor of North Carolina

4th cousin 5 times removed via John Gorham

Henry Wells

Co-Founder of American Express and Wells Fargo and Co.

4th cousin 6 times removed via Thomas Welles

Increase Sumner

5th Governor of Massachusetts

4th cousin 6 times removed via Robert Williams

Lyman Hall

Signer of the Declaration of Independence

4th cousin 7 times removed via William Chaplin

John Fitch

Inventor of 1st U.S. Steamboat

4th cousin 7 times removed via Gerard Spencer

Louis Auchincloss

Author

5th cousin 1 time removed via William Williams

Edwin D. Morgan

21st Governor of New York

5th cousin 3 times removed via Isaac Wheeler

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

American “Fireside” Poet

5th cousin 4 times removed via Rev. John Lothrop

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

American “Fireside” Poet

5th cousin 4 times removed via Rev. John Lothrop

Eliphalet Adams Bulkeley

Founder of Aetna Insurance

5th cousin 4 times removed via John Prentice

Ralph Waldo Emerson

American Poet

5th cousin 5 times removed via John Leonard

Nicholas Gilman

Signer of the U.S. Constitution

5th cousin 5 times removed via William Denison