Famous Kin of
John Steinbeck
Author of The Grapes of Wrath
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Josiah Bartlett
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
2nd cousin 6 times removed via John Emery Jr.
General Joseph Warren
Killed at Battle of Bunker Hill
3rd cousin 5 times removed via Robert Williams
William Williams
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
3rd cousin 5 times removed via Robert Williams
John Adams
2nd U.S. President and Signer of the Declaration of Independence
3rd cousin 6 times removed via Henry Adams
General William Whipple
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
3rd cousin 6 times removed via John Whipple
Franklin Pierce
14th U.S. President
4th cousin 4 times removed via John Emery Jr.
Bathsheba (Ruggles) Spooner
First woman executed for murder in U.S. by non-British government
4th cousin 6 times removed via Henry Howland
John Sargent Pillsbury
Co-Founder of C.A. Pillsbury Co.
5th cousin 3 times removed via Lionel Worth
Robert Treat Paine
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
5th cousin 6 times removed via Edmund Sherman
Roger Sherman
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
5th cousin 7 times removed via Henry Sherman
Charles A. Pillsbury
Co-Founder of C.A. Pillsbury Co.
6th cousin 2 times removed via Lionel Worth
Samuel Pierpont Langley
Astronomer and Aviation Pioneer
6th cousin 2 times removed via Robert Williams