Famous Kin of
John Hinckley, Jr.
Shot President Ronald Reagan
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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
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
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
Benedict Arnold
Traitor of the American Revolution
4th cousin 5 times removed via Rev. John Lothrop
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
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
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin
5th cousin 5 times removed via Sarah Heath