Famous Kin of
Clint Eastwood
TV & Film Actor and Director
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William Stoughton
Chief Judge and Prosecutor, Salem Witch Trials 1692
1st cousin 10 times removed via Rev. Thomas Stoughton
Lyman Hall
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
2nd cousin 6 times removed via Samuel Hall
Noah Webster
Published first American Dictionary
2nd cousin 7 times removed via Samuel Steele
Henry Wells
Co-Founder of American Express and Wells Fargo and Co.
3rd cousin 5 times removed via Stephen Kellogg
William Williams
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
3rd cousin 6 times removed via Aaron Cooke Jr.
Robert Treat Paine
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
3rd cousin 8 times removed via Richard Treat
Deborah Samson
Female Revolutionary War Veteran
3rd cousin 8 times removed via Gov. William Bradford
Millard Fillmore
13th U.S. President
4th cousin 5 times removed via Nehemiah Royce
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin
4th cousin 6 times removed via Richard Sperry
Allen Dulles
5th Director of the C.I.A.
5th cousin 3 times removed via Stephen Kellogg
John Foster Dulles
52nd U.S. Secretary of State
5th cousin 3 times removed via Stephen Kellogg
Charles Curtis
31st U.S. Vice-President
5th cousin 3 times removed via Stephen Kellogg
Samuel F. B. Morse
Painter and Co-Inventor of Morse Code
5th cousin 4 times removed via Isaac Johnson
Rutherford B. Hayes
19th U.S. President
5th cousin 4 times removed via John Root
W. K. Kellogg
Founder of the Kellogg Company
5th cousin 4 times removed via Joseph Kellogg
Levi Parsons Morton
22nd U.S. Vice-President
5th cousin 4 times removed via Cornet Joseph Parsons
C. W. Post
Founder of Post Cereals
5th cousin 4 times removed via Samuel Lathrop
William Robbins Barnes
Co-Founder of Barnes & Noble
5th cousin 4 times removed via Samuel Steele
Lucretia (Rudolph) Garfield
First Lady of President James Garfield
5th cousin 5 times removed via John Prentice
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
American “Fireside” Poet
5th cousin 5 times removed via Rev. John Lathrop
General George B. McClellan
Union Army - U.S. Civil War
5th cousin 5 times removed via John Prentice
John Brown
American Abolitionist
5th cousin 5 times removed via Katherine Chapin
Lewis Henry Morgan
Pioneering Anthropologist
5th cousin 5 times removed via James Morgan
Clement Clarke Moore
Author of “Twas the Night Before Christmas”
5th cousin 5 times removed via Elizabeth Stoughton
James Youngs Smith
29th Governor of Rhode Island
5th cousin 5 times removed via John Prentice
Thomas Waldo Story
English/American Sculptor
5th cousin 5 times removed via John Prentice
Franklin D. Roosevelt
32nd U.S. President
6th cousin 3 times removed via David Ashley
J.P. Morgan
American Banker and Art Collector
6th cousin 3 times removed via David Ashley
Eliphalet Remington
Founder of Remington Arms Company
6th cousin 3 times removed via Aaron Cooke Jr.
General Tom Thumb
Dwarf Circus Performer
6th cousin 3 times removed via John Walker
James Sherman
27th U.S. Vice-President
6th cousin 3 times removed via David Ashley
Marjorie Post
Founder of General Foods
6th cousin 3 times removed via Samuel Lathrop
Julius Sterling Morton
Founder of Arbor Day
6th cousin 3 times removed via David Ashley
Frank W. Woolworth
Founder of F.W. Woolworth Company
6th cousin 3 times removed via John Root
Sir Robert Laird Borden
8th Prime Minister of Canada
6th cousin 4 times removed via Rev. John Lathrop
Ellen Louise (Axson) Wilson
First Lady of President Woodrow Wilson
6th cousin 4 times removed via Thomas Bliss
Francis Edward Hinckley
Co-Founder of the University of Chicago
6th cousin 4 times removed via Rev. John Lathrop
Frank Lloyd Wright
American Architect
6th cousin 4 times removed via John Prentice
Louisa May Alcott
Author of Little Women
6th cousin 4 times removed via John Root
George Eastman
Founder of Eastman Kodak Company
6th cousin 4 times removed via William Bradford Jr.
Charles Goodyear
Inventor, and namesake of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.
6th cousin 5 times removed via Benjamin Wilmot
General William Tecumseh Sherman
Union Army - U.S. Civil War
6th cousin 5 times removed via Richard Miles Jr.
Charles Dawes
30th U.S. Vice-President
7th cousin 1 time removed via Samuel Parsons
J.P. Morgan, Jr.
American Banker and Philanthropist
7th cousin 2 times removed via David Ashley
Sir Winston Churchill
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
7th cousin 2 times removed via John Hall
Grover Cleveland
22nd and 24th U.S. President
7th cousin 2 times removed via Aaron Cooke Jr.
Frederick Upton
Co-Founder of Whirlpool Corporation
7th cousin 2 times removed via Cornet Joseph Parsons
Henry Lee Higginson
Founder of the Boston Symphony Orchestra
7th cousin 2 times removed via Aaron Cooke Jr.
Joy Morton
Founder of Morton Salt Company
7th cousin 2 times removed via David Ashley
Samuel Pierpont Langley
Astronomer and Aviation Pioneer
7th cousin 3 times removed via Elizabeth Charde
Samuel Colt
Inventor of the Colt Revolver
7th cousin 3 times removed via Elizabeth Charde
Clarence Day
Author of Life with Father
7th cousin 3 times removed via Robert Day
William Howard Taft
27th U.S. President
7th cousin 4 times removed via Samuel Chapin
Richard Warren Sears
Co-Founder of Sears, Roebuck, & Co.
7th cousin 4 times removed via Alice Carpenter
Henry Sturgis Morgan
Co-Founder of Morgan Stanley
8th cousin 1 time removed via David Ashley
Warren Buffett
Chairman & CEO, Berkshire Hathaway
8th cousin 1 time removed via Stephen Hosmer
Nelson Rockefeller
41st U.S. Vice-President
8th cousin 1 time removed via Robert Royce
Bess (Wallace) Truman
First Lady of President Harry S Truman
8th cousin 1 time removed via John Root
Barbara Hutton
Socialite (aka “Poor Little Rich Girl”)
8th cousin 1 time removed via John Root
Thomas Edmund Dewey
47th Governor of New York
8th cousin 1 time removed via Robert Royce
Lucy (Webb) Hayes
First Lady of President Rutherford B. Hayes
8th cousin 2 times removed via Elizabeth Charde
George Romney
43rd Governor of Michigan
8th cousin 2 times removed via Richard Sperry
Stephen A. Douglas
Participated in Lincoln-Douglas Debates
8th cousin 2 times removed via John Johnson
Hugh Hefner
Founder of Playboy Magazine
8th cousin 2 times removed via William Bradford Jr.
Lillian Gish
Stage, TV and Movie Actress
8th cousin 2 times removed via Elizabeth Charde
Alan Shepard
Mercury and Apollo Astronaut
8th cousin 2 times removed via John Johnson
Julia Child
American Chef, Author and TV Personality
8th cousin 2 times removed via William Bradford Jr.
Thomas Pynchon
American Novelist
8th cousin 2 times removed via William Bradford Jr.
Erle Stanley Gardner
Author of the Perry Mason series
8th cousin 2 times removed via Elizabeth Charde
Henry Luce
Co-Founder of Time, Life, Fortune and Sports Illustrated magazines
8th cousin 2 times removed via John Root
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Nobel Prize Winner in Physiology or Medicine
8th cousin 2 times removed via Benjamin Wilmot Jr.
Dr. Hawley H. Crippen
Murderer in Erik Larson's “Thunderstruck”
8th cousin 2 times removed via Rev. John Lathrop
Melvil Dewey
Inventor of the Dewey Decimal System
8th cousin 2 times removed via Elizabeth Charde
Peter Fonda
TV and Movie Actor
8th cousin 2 times removed via William Bradford Jr.
John Wellborn Root
1893 Chicago Columbian Exposition Architect
8th cousin 3 times removed via John Root
Willis Carrier
Inventor of Air Conditioning
8th cousin 3 times removed via Richard Treat
John Adams Morgan
1952 Olympic Sailing Gold Medalist
9th cousin via David Ashley
Tennessee Williams
Author of A Streetcar Named Desire
9th cousin 1 time removed via Benjamin Wilmot Jr.
Lucille Ball
TV Actress - “I Love Lucy”
9th cousin 1 time removed via Thomas Bliss
Nancy (Davis) Reagan
First Lady of President Ronald Reagan
9th cousin 1 time removed via John Root
John Hinckley, Jr.
Shot President Ronald Reagan
9th cousin 1 time removed via Rev. John Lathrop
Ernest Hemingway
Author of The Sun Also Rises
9th cousin 1 time removed via Henry Glover
Christopher Reeve
Movie Actor
9th cousin 1 time removed via William Bradford Jr.
Kate Upton
Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Cover Model
9th cousin 1 time removed via Cornet Joseph Parsons
Adlai Stevenson III
U.S. Senator from Illinois
9th cousin 1 time removed via William Bradford Jr.
John Lithgow
Stage, TV, and Movie Actor
9th cousin 1 time removed via William Bradford Jr.
David Hyde Pierce
Stage, TV, and Movie Actor
9th cousin 1 time removed via William Bradford Jr.
Dan Quayle
44th U.S. Vice-President
9th cousin 1 time removed via Katherine Chapin
Norman Rockwell
American Artist
9th cousin 2 times removed via Richard Miles Jr.
Margaret Hamilton
Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of OZ
9th cousin 2 times removed via Thomas Kilbourn
Elisabeth Shue
TV and Movie Actress
9th cousin 2 times removed via Richard Treat
Mary Chapin Carpenter
Singer and Songwriter
9th cousin 2 times removed via Samuel Chapin
George H. W. Bush
41st U.S. President
10th cousin 1 time removed via Thomas Richards
Sydney Biddle Barrows
Mayflower Madam
10th cousin 1 time removed via Martyn Kellogg
Brian Wilson
Co-Founder of The Beach Boys
10th cousin 1 time removed via Elizabeth Charde
Dennis Wilson
Co-Founder of The Beach Boys
10th cousin 1 time removed via Elizabeth Charde
Carl Wilson
Co-Founder of The Beach Boys
10th cousin 1 time removed via Elizabeth Charde
Sarah Caldwell
1st Female Conductor of the Metropolitan Opera
10th cousin 1 time removed via Elizabeth Charde
David McCullough
Historian, Author and TV Narrator
10th cousin 2 times removed via Roger Brownson
Marie-Chantal Miller
Crown Princess of Greece
12th cousin via Alexander Carpenter of Wrington, Somersetshire
Lytton Strachey
Author and Co-Founder of Bloomsbury Group
17th cousin 3 times removed via Sir Roger Lewknor