Master Surname Index






Potter Palmer

Famous Kin of
Potter Palmer

Co-Founder of Marshall Fields

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John Howland

(c1598 - 1672/3)
Mayflower passenger - 1620

5th great-granduncle via Henry Howland

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Henry Samson

(c1603/4 - c1684/5)
Mayflower passenger - 1620

1st cousin 6 times removed via John Samson

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Henry Crapo

14th Governor of Michigan

3rd cousin 1 time removed via Jonathan Ricketson

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William Durant

Co-Founder of General Motors and Founder of Frigidaire

3rd cousin 3 times removed via Jonathan Ricketson

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Gerald Ford

38th U.S. President

3rd cousin 4 times removed via Jonathan Ricketson

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Hetty Green

“The Witch of Wall Street”

4th cousin via Benjamin Howland

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Bathsheba (Ruggles) Spooner

First woman executed for murder in U.S. by non-British government

4th cousin 3 times removed via Henry Howland

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Hannibal Hamlin

15th U.S. Vice-President

5th cousin via Abraham Sampson

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Lewis Henry Lapham

Co-Founder of Texaco

5th cousin 1 time removed via Zoeth Howland

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Joseph Wharton

Founder of the Wharton School of Business

5th cousin 1 time removed via Henry Howland

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Nathaniel Gorham

Signer of the U.S. Constitution

5th cousin 2 times removed via Henry Howland

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Bing Crosby

Singer and Movie Actor

5th cousin 3 times removed via Zoeth Howland

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Christopher Lloyd

Movie Actor

5th cousin 3 times removed via Zoeth Howland

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Owen Brewster

54th Governor of Maine

5th cousin 3 times removed via Abraham Sampson

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Marilyn Monroe

Actress, Model, and Singer

5th cousin 4 times removed via Zoeth Howland

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Jonathan Worth

39th Governor of North Carolina

6th cousin 1 time removed via Henry Howland

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Richard Nixon

37th U.S. President

6th cousin 2 times removed via Henry Howland

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Johnny Carson

TV Host - “The Tonight Show”

6th cousin 3 times removed via Henry Howland

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Meryl Streep

Movie Actress

6th cousin 3 times removed via Henry Howland

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Norman Rockwell

American Artist

6th cousin 4 times removed via Henry Howland

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Don Winslow

Author and Screenwriter

6th cousin 5 times removed via Henry Howland

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Kristine Rolofson

Harlequin Novelist

6th cousin 5 times removed via Henry Howland

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

American “Fireside” Poet

7th cousin via John Samson

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

American Poet

7th cousin via Henry Howland

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Joseph Smith

Founder of the Mormon Church

7th cousin via Henry Howland

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James Youngs Smith

29th Governor of Rhode Island

7th cousin via Henry Howland

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Horace Gray

U.S. Supreme Court Justice

7th cousin via Henry Howland

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Henry Huttleston Rogers

Oil Tycoon

7th cousin via Henry Howland

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Mark Hopkins, Jr.

Co-founder, Central Pacific R.R.

7th cousin via Henry Howland

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

32nd U.S. President

7th cousin 1 time removed via Henry Howland