Famous Kin of
William Williams
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
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Henry Lee Higginson
Founder of the Boston Symphony Orchestra
1st cousin 4 times removed via Samuel Porter Jr.
Henry Wells
Co-Founder of American Express and Wells Fargo and Co.
2nd cousin 2 times removed via Aaron Cooke III
Rutherford B. Hayes
19th U.S. President
2nd cousin 3 times removed via Aaron Cooke III
General William Tecumseh Sherman
Union Army - U.S. Civil War
2nd cousin 3 times removed via Rev. Solomon Stoddard
General George B. McClellan
Union Army - U.S. Civil War
2nd cousin 3 times removed via Isaac Williams
Eliphalet Remington
Founder of Remington Arms Company
2nd cousin 3 times removed via Aaron Cooke III
Melvil Dewey
Inventor of the Dewey Decimal System
2nd cousin 3 times removed via Samuel Porter
Edith (Carow) Roosevelt
First Lady of President Theodore Roosevelt
2nd cousin 4 times removed via Rev. Solomon Stoddard
Wilbur Wright
Wright Brothers - Aviation Pioneer
2nd cousin 4 times removed via Samuel Porter
Orville Wright
Wright Brothers - Aviation Pioneer
2nd cousin 4 times removed via Samuel Porter
Francis Edward Hinckley
Co-Founder of the University of Chicago
2nd cousin 4 times removed via Isaac Williams
Frank Nelson Doubleday
Founder of Doubleday & Co.
2nd cousin 4 times removed via Rev. Solomon Stoddard
Thomas Edmund Dewey
47th Governor of New York
2nd cousin 5 times removed via Samuel Porter