Famous Kin of
William Rush Merriam
11th Governor of Minnesota
Click on the names below to see their relationship charts
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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
Benjamin Silliman
Founder, American Journal of Science
5th cousin 3 times removed
via Richard Warren
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
Sir Hiram Maxim
Machine Gun Inventor
6th cousin 1 time removed
via Nathaniel Warren
Brig. Gen. Henry Clay Wood
Medal of Honor Recipient
U.S. Civil War
6th cousin 1 time removed
via Philip Delano
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