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.
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
Sumner Sewall
58th Governor of Maine
6th cousin 1 time removed via Richard Cutter
Charles A. Pillsbury
Co-Founder of C.A. Pillsbury Co.
6th cousin 2 times removed via Lionel Worth
Susan B. Anthony
Women's Rights Advocate
6th cousin 3 times removed via John Whipple
Joseph Smith
Founder of the Mormon Church
6th cousin 3 times removed via Richard Gould of Bovingdon
James Russell Lowell
American “Fireside” Poet
6th cousin 3 times removed via Nathaniel Sparhawk
George Henry Bissell
Father of the American Oil Industry
6th cousin 3 times removed via Richard Kent