Famous Kin of
William Rush Merriam
11th Governor of Minnesota
Click on the names below to see their relationship charts
Exclude:
Gen. Joseph Gardner Swift
First Graduate of West Point Military Academy
3rd cousin 3 times removed
via Jonathan Delano
Samuel Prescott
Completed Paul Revere's Midnight Ride
3rd cousin 4 times removed
via Sarah Goldstone
Maj. Gen. Francis C. Barlow
Union Army - U.S. Civil War
5th cousin 1 time removed
via Joseph Hatch
Joseph Smith
Founder of the Mormon Church
5th cousin 2 times removed
via Joseph Merriam
Robert Treat Paine
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
5th cousin 5 times removed
via Edmund Sherman
Roger Sherman
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
5th cousin 6 times removed
via Henry Sherman
Sir Winston Churchill
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
6th cousin
via Joseph Hatch
Lavinia Warren
Dwarf Circus Performer
6th cousin 1 time removed
via Nathaniel Warren
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
American “Fireside” Poet
6th cousin 2 times removed
via Richard Warren
Abby (Gray) Borden
Murdered Step-Mother of Lizzie Borden
6th cousin 2 times removed
via Richard Warren
John Dewey
Philosopher and Education Reformer
6th cousin 2 times removed
via George Partridge
Isaac Taylor Tichenor
President of Auburn University
6th cousin 2 times removed
via Samuel Allen
J. A. Folger
Founder of Folger Coffee Company
6th cousin 3 times removed
via William Palmer