Famous Kin of
J.P. Morgan
American Banker and Art Collector
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Aaron Burr
Killed Alexander Hamilton
2nd cousin 2 times removed via Rev. James Pierpont
Levi Parsons Morton
22nd U.S. Vice-President
3rd cousin 1 time removed via Benjamin Sheldon
Benjamin Tallmadge
Leader of the Culper Spy Ring during the American Revolution
3rd cousin 2 times removed via Rev. Samuel Hooker
Ethan Allen
Revolutionary War Hero
3rd cousin 3 times removed via Thomas Woodford
Noah Webster
Published first American Dictionary
3rd cousin 4 times removed via Samuel Marshfield
Edith (Carow) Roosevelt
First Lady of President Theodore Roosevelt
4th cousin 1 time removed via Rev. James Pierpont
Frank Nelson Doubleday
Founder of Doubleday & Co.
4th cousin 1 time removed via Rev. James Pierpont
Frederick Upton
Co-Founder of Whirlpool Corporation
4th cousin 1 time removed via Benjamin Sheldon
William Williams
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
4th cousin 4 times removed via Elizabeth Charde
Kate Upton
Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Cover Model
4th cousin 4 times removed via Benjamin Sheldon
Frank W. Woolworth
Founder of F.W. Woolworth Company
5th cousin via Thomas Sheldon
Grover Cleveland
22nd and 24th U.S. President
5th cousin 1 time removed via Samuel Hyde
Elihu Root
38th U.S. Secretary of State
5th cousin 1 time removed via Medad Pomeroy
John Wellborn Root
1893 Chicago Columbian Exposition Architect
5th cousin 1 time removed via Isaac Sheldon
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
American “Fireside” Poet
5th cousin 1 time removed via Thomas Willett
Millard Fillmore
13th U.S. President
5th cousin 2 times removed via Robert Royce
Anderson Cooper
Television Journalist
5th cousin 2 times removed via Benjamin Lyman
Barbara Hutton
Socialite (aka “Poor Little Rich Girl”)
5th cousin 2 times removed via Thomas Sheldon
Gilbert Clifford Noble
Co-Founder of Barnes & Noble
5th cousin 2 times removed via Isaac Sheldon
Nancy (Davis) Reagan
First Lady of President Ronald Reagan
5th cousin 3 times removed via Obadiah Spencer
General Joseph Warren
Killed at Battle of Bunker Hill
5th cousin 3 times removed via William Chaplin
Dr. Benjamin Spock
American Pediatrician and Author on Child Care
5th cousin 3 times removed via Isaac Sheldon
Mary Chapin Carpenter
Singer and Songwriter
5th cousin 3 times removed via Japhet Chapin
Bill Weld
68th Governor of Massachusetts
5th cousin 3 times removed via John Collins III
John Lithgow
Stage, TV, and Movie Actor
5th cousin 4 times removed via Isaac Sheldon
Anne Boleyn
2nd Wife of King Henry VIII
5th cousin 10 times removed via Sir Reynold de Grey
Jane Seymour
3rd Wife of King Henry VIII
5th cousin 10 times removed via Sir Reynold de Grey
Catherine Howard
5th Wife of King Henry VIII
5th cousin 10 times removed via Sir Reynold de Grey
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice
6th cousin via Thomas Willett
William Howard Taft
27th U.S. President
6th cousin 1 time removed via Rev. Thomas Hooker
Rutherford B. Hayes
19th U.S. President
6th cousin 1 time removed via Robert Ashley
Nelson Rockefeller
41st U.S. Vice-President
6th cousin 1 time removed via John Calkins
Ellen Louise (Axson) Wilson
First Lady of President Woodrow Wilson
6th cousin 1 time removed via Samuel Chapin
Stephen A. Douglas
Participated in Lincoln-Douglas Debates
6th cousin 1 time removed via Hugh Calkins
Lewis Henry Morgan
Pioneering Anthropologist
6th cousin 1 time removed via William Holton
Henry Luce
Co-Founder of Time, Life, Fortune and Sports Illustrated magazines
6th cousin 1 time removed via Medad Pomeroy
Joy Morton
Founder of Morton Salt Company
6th cousin 1 time removed via David Ashley
James Russell Lowell
American “Fireside” Poet
6th cousin 1 time removed via Robert Blott
Thomas Edmund Dewey
47th Governor of New York
6th cousin 1 time removed via John Calkins
Samuel F. B. Morse
Painter and Co-Inventor of Morse Code
6th cousin 2 times removed via John Johnson
Wilbur Wright
Wright Brothers - Aviation Pioneer
6th cousin 2 times removed via Samuel Wright
Orville Wright
Wright Brothers - Aviation Pioneer
6th cousin 2 times removed via Samuel Wright
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Nobel Prize Winner in Physiology or Medicine
6th cousin 2 times removed via Thomas Spencer
Henry Wells
Co-Founder of American Express and Wells Fargo and Co.
6th cousin 2 times removed via Elizabeth Charde
Melvil Dewey
Inventor of the Dewey Decimal System
6th cousin 2 times removed via Samuel Chapin
Tennessee Williams
Author of A Streetcar Named Desire
6th cousin 3 times removed via Thomas Spencer
Clint Eastwood
TV & Film Actor and Director
6th cousin 3 times removed via David Ashley
John Kerry
68th U.S. Secretary of State
6th cousin 3 times removed via Simon Lynde
David Hyde Pierce
Stage, TV, and Movie Actor
6th cousin 3 times removed via Samuel Chapin
Warren Buffett
Chairman & CEO, Berkshire Hathaway
6th cousin 4 times removed via Samuel Chapin
Mitt Romney
70th Governor of Massachusetts
6th cousin 4 times removed via William Lewis Jr.
John Hinckley, Jr.
Shot President Ronald Reagan
6th cousin 4 times removed via Thomas Spencer
Glenn Close
Movie, Television, and Stage Actress
6th cousin 4 times removed via Thomas Woodford
Sarah Caldwell
1st Female Conductor of the Metropolitan Opera
6th cousin 4 times removed via Thomas Woodford
Brooke Shields
Movie Actress and Model
6th cousin 5 times removed via Thomas Woodford
Lucy (Webb) Hayes
First Lady of President Rutherford B. Hayes
7th cousin via William Holton
J. A. Folger
Founder of Folger Coffee Company
7th cousin 1 time removed via Thomas Hooker of Marefield, Tilton, Leicestershire
Sir Winston Churchill
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
7th cousin 1 time removed via Henry Glover
Samuel Pierpont Langley
Astronomer and Aviation Pioneer
7th cousin 1 time removed via William Clap
Juliette Gordon Low
Founder of the Girl Scouts
7th cousin 1 time removed via Hugh Calkins
Eliphalet Remington
Founder of Remington Arms Company
7th cousin 1 time removed via Elizabeth Charde
Buckminster Fuller
Author, Architect, and Inventor
7th cousin 1 time removed via Hugh Calkins
William Marsh Rice
Founder of Rice University
7th cousin 1 time removed via Thomas Hooker of Marefield, Tilton, Leicestershire
Admiral George Dewey
Admiral of the Navy
7th cousin 1 time removed via Richard Lyman
Dr. Hawley H. Crippen
Murderer in Erik Larson's “Thunderstruck”
7th cousin 1 time removed via John Strong
Henry Clay Folger
Founder of Folger Shakespeare Library and Chairman of Standard Oil
7th cousin 2 times removed via Thomas Hooker of Marefield, Tilton, Leicestershire
Ernest Hemingway
Author of The Sun Also Rises
7th cousin 2 times removed via Henry Glover
Marilyn Monroe
Actress, Model, and Singer
7th cousin 2 times removed via Gerard Spencer
Colonel Robert Gould Shaw
Principal character of film Glory portrayed by Matthew Broderick
7th cousin 2 times removed via Thomas Hooker of Marefield, Tilton, Leicestershire
Bess (Wallace) Truman
First Lady of President Harry S Truman
7th cousin 2 times removed via Robert Ashley
Hetty Green
“The Witch of Wall Street”
7th cousin 2 times removed via Thomas Hooker of Marefield, Tilton, Leicestershire
Margaret Hamilton
Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of OZ
7th cousin 2 times removed via Gerard Spencer
Henry A. Wallace
33rd U.S. Vice-President
7th cousin 2 times removed via Robert Royce
Lucille Ball
TV Actress - “I Love Lucy”
7th cousin 3 times removed via Gerard Spencer
General Douglas MacArthur
U.S. Army - World War II
7th cousin 3 times removed via Thomas Hooker of Marefield, Tilton, Leicestershire
Howard Dean
79th Governor of Vermont
7th cousin 3 times removed via Dr. Henry Woodward
Mike Huckabee
44th Governor of Arkansas
7th cousin 3 times removed via Dr. Henry Woodward
Illeana Douglas
TV and Movie Actress
7th cousin 3 times removed via Hugh Calkins
Mark David Chapman
Assassinated John Lennon
7th cousin 3 times removed via John Strong
Abigail Folger
Charles Manson Murder Victim and Folger Coffee Heiress
7th cousin 4 times removed via Thomas Hooker of Marefield, Tilton, Leicestershire
Bette Davis
Movie Actress
7th cousin 4 times removed via Thomas Hooker of Marefield, Tilton, Leicestershire
Brian Wilson
Co-Founder of The Beach Boys
7th cousin 4 times removed via Richard Lyman
Dennis Wilson
Co-Founder of The Beach Boys
7th cousin 4 times removed via Richard Lyman
Carl Wilson
Co-Founder of The Beach Boys
7th cousin 4 times removed via Richard Lyman
Sydney Biddle Barrows
Mayflower Madam
7th cousin 5 times removed via Gerard Spencer
Kyra Sedgwick
TV and Movie Actress
7th cousin 6 times removed via Thomas Hooker of Marefield, Tilton, Leicestershire
Erle Stanley Gardner
Author of the Perry Mason series
8th cousin via William Clap
Walt Disney
Co-Founder of The Walt Disney Company
8th cousin 1 time removed via John Johnson
Clarence Day
Author of Life with Father
8th cousin 2 times removed via William Chaplin
George H. W. Bush
41st U.S. President
8th cousin 3 times removed via William Clap
Elisabeth Shue
TV and Movie Actress
8th cousin 3 times removed via Samuel Wright
Ted Danson
TV Actor - “Cheers”, “CSI”
8th cousin 4 times removed via William Chaplin
John Cena
Movie Actor and WWE Pro Wrestler
8th cousin 5 times removed via James Martin
Catherine Parr
6th Wife of King Henry VIII
8th cousin 11 times removed via William de Odingsells
Tuesday Weld
TV and Movie Actress
9th cousin 1 time removed via William Heath of Ware, Hertfordshire
Edmund Waller
English Poet and Politician
9th cousin 6 times removed via Sir Reynold de Grey
King Henry VIII
King of England
9th cousin 10 times removed via Isabelle of Angoulême
William C. C. Claiborne
1st Governor of Louisiana
10th cousin 2 times removed via Nicholas Griffin
George Clinton
4th U.S. Vice President
10th cousin 4 times removed via Sir Reynold Grey
George Washington
1st U.S. President
11th cousin 3 times removed via Sir Reynold Grey
Thomas Nelson
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
11th cousin 3 times removed via Sir Reynold Grey
DeWitt Clinton
6th Governor of New York
11th cousin 3 times removed via Sir Reynold Grey
Caesar Rodney
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
11th cousin 4 times removed via Sir Reynold de Grey
Richard More
Mayflower Passenger
11th cousin 5 times removed via Sir Roger de Grey
Robert Catesby
Leader of Gunpowder Plot
11th cousin 8 times removed via Sir William de Cantilupe
Meriwether Lewis
Lewis and Clark Expedition
12th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Reynold Grey
Bathsheba (Ruggles) Spooner
First woman executed for murder in U.S. by non-British government
12th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Reynold Grey
Liz Claiborne
Fashion Designer and Founder of Liz Claiborne Inc.
12th cousin 2 times removed via Nicholas Griffin
John Langdon
Signer of the U.S. Constitution
12th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Reynold Grey
Jane (Appleton) Pierce
First Lady of President Franklin Pierce
13th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Reynold Grey
Nicholas Gilman
Signer of the U.S. Constitution
13th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Reynold Grey
Lt. Gen. James Brudenell
Leader of the “Charge of the Light Brigade”
13th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Reynold Grey
Robert Treat Paine
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
13th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Reynold de Grey
Rev. George Burroughs
Executed for Witchcraft, Salem 1692
13th cousin 6 times removed via Sir William de Cantilupe
Charles A. Pillsbury
Co-Founder of C.A. Pillsbury Co.
14th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Thomas de Umfreville
Charles Darwin
Theory of Evolution
14th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Reynold Grey
Dr. H. H. Holmes
Serial Killer aka “Devil in the White City”
14th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Reynold Grey
General George S. Patton
U.S. Army - World War II
14th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Reynold Grey
Helen (Herron) Taft
First Lady of President William H. Taft
14th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Thomas de Umfreville
Abigail (Smith) Adams
First Lady of President John Adams
14th cousin 4 times removed via Ida de Odingsells
Queen Elizabeth II
Queen of the United Kingdom
14th cousin 4 times removed via Sir Reynold Grey
Francis Scott Key
Author of “The Star Spangled Banner”
15th cousin via Sir Reynold de Grey
Judy Garland
Singer and Movie Actress
15th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Thomas de Umfreville
Joseph Wharton
Founder of the Wharton School of Business
15th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Reynold de Grey
John D. Rockefeller
Founder of the Standard Oil Company
15th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Reynold de Grey
Edith (Bolling) Wilson
First Lady of President Woodrow Wilson
15th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Reynold de Grey
Liza Minnelli
Singer and Actress
15th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Thomas de Umfreville
John Quincy Adams
6th U.S. President
15th cousin 3 times removed via Ida de Odingsells
Major John Pitcairn
British Commander at Battle of Lexington
15th cousin 4 times removed via Isabelle of Angoulême
George Mason
Father of the U.S. Bill of Rights
15th cousin 4 times removed via Sir William de Cantilupe
C. W. Post
Founder of Post Cereals
16th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Roger de Grey
Benjamin Harrison V
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
16th cousin 3 times removed via Sir Humphrey de Bohun
Harriet Martineau
Author of The Hour and the Man
16th cousin 3 times removed via Sir William de Cantilupe
Roger Sherman
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
16th cousin 3 times removed via Isabelle of Angoulême
Fletcher Christian
Leader of the mutiny on the Bounty
16th cousin 3 times removed via William de Odingsells
Caleb Brewster
Member of the Culper Spy Ring during the American Revolution
16th cousin 3 times removed via Sir Humphrey de Bohun
Marjorie Post
Founder of General Foods
16th cousin 3 times removed via Sir Roger de Grey
Jonathan Swift
Author of Gulliver's Travels
16th cousin 3 times removed via Sir Humphrey de Bohun
Richard Henry Lee
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
16th cousin 3 times removed via Isabelle of Angoulême
Francis Lightfoot Lee
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
16th cousin 3 times removed via Isabelle of Angoulême
Carter Braxton
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
16th cousin 3 times removed via Sir Humphrey de Bohun
Samuel Howard
Boston Tea Party Participant
16th cousin 4 times removed via Sir Walter FitzRobert
Orson Welles
Radio, Stage, and Movie Actor
16th cousin 4 times removed via Sir Roger de Grey
Lizzie Borden
Accused Murderess
16th cousin 5 times removed via Sir Roger de Grey
Allen Dulles
5th Director of the C.I.A.
16th cousin 5 times removed via Sir Roger de Grey
John Foster Dulles
52nd U.S. Secretary of State
16th cousin 5 times removed via Sir Roger de Grey
Lucretia (Rudolph) Garfield
First Lady of President James Garfield
17th cousin via Robert de Umfreville
Henry Lee III
9th Governor of Virginia
17th cousin 2 times removed via Isabelle of Angoulême
William Henry Harrison
9th U.S. President
17th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Humphrey de Bohun
Thomas Jefferson
3rd U.S. President and Signer of the Declaration of Independence
17th cousin 2 times removed via Isabelle of Angoulême
James Madison
4th U.S. President
17th cousin 2 times removed via Isabelle of Angoulême
Samuel Prescott
Completed Paul Revere's Midnight Ride
17th cousin 2 times removed via Sir William de Cantilupe
General William Whipple
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
17th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Humphrey de Bohun
Thomas Sim Lee
2nd and 7th Governor of Maryland
17th cousin 2 times removed via Isabelle of Angoulême
Philip Livingston
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
17th cousin 3 times removed via David of Huntingdon
John Hancock
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
17th cousin 4 times removed via Hugh de Kevelioc
Benedict Cumberbatch
Movie, Television and Stage Actor
17th cousin 4 times removed via John de la Warre
General Robert E. Lee
Confederate Army - U.S. Civil War
18th cousin 1 time removed via Isabelle of Angoulême
Eli Whitney
Inventor of the Cotton Gin
18th cousin 1 time removed via Isabelle of Angoulême
Button Gwinnett
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
18th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Humphrey de Bohun
William Floyd
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
18th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Humphrey de Bohun
John Marshall
4th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
18th cousin 1 time removed via Isabelle of Angoulême
Fitzhugh Lee
40th Governor of Virginia
18th cousin 1 time removed via Sir William de Cantilupe
Edward Lloyd V
13th Governor of Maryland
18th cousin 1 time removed via Isabelle of Angoulême
Charles Goldsborough
16th Governor of Maryland
18th cousin 1 time removed via Isabelle of Angoulême
Barbara (Pierce) Bush
First Lady of President George H.W. Bush
18th cousin 2 times removed via Ida de Odingsells
William Ellery
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
18th cousin 3 times removed via Sir William Longespee
William Greene
2nd Governor of Rhode Island
18th cousin 3 times removed via Sir William Longespee
Shubael D. Childs
Founder of S.D. Childs & Company
19th cousin via Isabelle of Angoulême
Alexander Hamilton
1st U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
19th cousin via Isabelle of Angoulême
Noel Coward
Playwright, Actor, and Songwriter
19th cousin via Isabelle of Angoulême
Lytton Strachey
Author and Co-Founder of Bloomsbury Group
19th cousin via Isabelle of Angoulême
Ichabod Goodwin
27th Governor of New Hampshire
19th cousin via Sir William de Cantilupe
Charles Carnan Ridgely
15th Governor of Maryland
19th cousin via Isabelle of Angoulême
Theodore Roosevelt
26th U.S. President
19th cousin 1 time removed via Isabelle of Angoulême
Richard Warren Sears
Co-Founder of Sears, Roebuck, & Co.
19th cousin 1 time removed via Isabelle of Angoulême
General Hugh Mercer
American Revolutionary War Hero
19th cousin 1 time removed via David of Huntingdon
Sir Charles Tupper
6th Prime Minister of Canada
19th cousin 1 time removed via Alexander Comyn
Jack London
Author of “The Call of the Wild”
19th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Humphrey de Bohun
Jay Gould
American Railroad “Robber Baron”
19th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Humphrey de Bohun
Henry Lloyd
40th Governor of Maryland
19th cousin 1 time removed via Isabelle of Angoulême
Eleanor Roosevelt
First Lady of President Franklin D. Roosevelt
19th cousin 2 times removed via Isabelle of Angoulême
Johnny Mercer
Songwriter and Co-Founder of Capitol Records
19th cousin 2 times removed via Isabelle of Angoulême
Admiral Richard Byrd
Polar Explorer
19th cousin 2 times removed via Isabelle of Angoulême
Robert Townsend
Member of the Culper Spy Ring during the American Revolution
19th cousin 2 times removed via Sir William Longespee
Sandra Day O'Connor
First Female U.S. Supreme Court Justice
19th cousin 2 times removed via William de Odingsells
Harry F. Byrd
50th Governor of Virginia
19th cousin 2 times removed via Isabelle of Angoulême
Endicott Peabody
62nd Governor of Massachusetts
19th cousin 2 times removed via Isabelle of Angoulême
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Author, “Sherlock Holmes”
19th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Humphrey de Bohun
Lou (Henry) Hoover
First Lady of President Herbert Hoover
20th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Walter FitzRobert
Samuel Ward King
15th Governor of Rhode Island
20th cousin 1 time removed via Sir William Longespee
Capt. William Lewis Herndon
Captain of the ill fated S.S. Central America
21st cousin via Henry of Huntingdon