Famous Kin of
John Sargent Pillsbury
Co-Founder of C.A. Pillsbury Co.
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General William Whipple
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
3rd cousin 3 times removed via John Whipple
Owen Brewster
54th Governor of Maine
4th cousin 4 times removed via Benjamin Morse
Samuel F. B. Morse
Painter and Co-Inventor of Morse Code
5th cousin via Anthony Morse Jr.
Joseph Smith
Founder of the Mormon Church
5th cousin 1 time removed via Anthony Colby
Lucretia (Coffin) Mott
Abolitionist and Women's Rights Advocate
5th cousin 1 time removed via Richard Kimball Jr.
Dr. H. H. Holmes
Serial Killer aka “Devil in the White City”
5th cousin 2 times removed via John Clough
Joy Morton
Founder of Morton Salt Company
5th cousin 2 times removed via Roger Eastman
William Robbins Barnes
Co-Founder of Barnes & Noble
5th cousin 2 times removed via John Clough
Tennessee Williams
Author of A Streetcar Named Desire
5th cousin 3 times removed via Anthony Morse Jr.
John Steinbeck
Author of The Grapes of Wrath
5th cousin 3 times removed via Lionel Worth
Samuel Adams
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
5th cousin 4 times removed via Thomas Perkins
Steve Young
Football Hall of Fame Quarterback
5th cousin 5 times removed via Roger Eastman
Meghan Markle
Duchess of Sussex, TV Actress
5th cousin 5 times removed via William Pillsbury
Grace (Goodhue) Coolidge
First Lady of President Calvin Coolidge
6th cousin 1 time removed via John Whipple
Laura Ingalls-Wilder
Author of Little House on the Prairie
6th cousin 2 times removed via Anthony Colby
Robert H. Goddard
Inventor of First Liquid-propelled Rocket
6th cousin 2 times removed via John Whipple
Henry Clay Folger
Founder of Folger Shakespeare Library and Chairman of Standard Oil
6th cousin 3 times removed via Richard Kimball Jr.
Edith (Carow) Roosevelt
First Lady of President Theodore Roosevelt
6th cousin 3 times removed via Richard Kimball Jr.
Dick Cheney
46th U.S. Vice-President
6th cousin 3 times removed via Anthony Colby
Alan Shepard
Mercury and Apollo Astronaut
6th cousin 3 times removed via Edward Hilton
Grace Slick
Singer, Songwriter - Jefferson Airplane
6th cousin 3 times removed via John Moulton
Bill Weld
68th Governor of Massachusetts
6th cousin 3 times removed via John Cheney
Leverett Saltonstall
55th Governor of Massachusetts
6th cousin 4 times removed via Richard Kimball Jr.
Abigail Folger
Charles Manson Murder Victim and Folger Coffee Heiress
6th cousin 5 times removed via Richard Kimball Jr.
John Lithgow
Stage, TV, and Movie Actor
6th cousin 5 times removed via Richard Kimball Jr.
Elizabeth Smart
Founder of Elizabeth Smart Foundation
6th cousin 6 times removed via John Whipple
Ellen Louise (Axson) Wilson
First Lady of President Woodrow Wilson
7th cousin via John Perkins
Henry Sturgis Morgan
Co-Founder of Morgan Stanley
7th cousin 1 time removed via John Perkins
Franklin D. Roosevelt
32nd U.S. President
7th cousin 1 time removed via John Perkins
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Nobel Prize Winner in Physiology or Medicine
7th cousin 1 time removed via John Perkins
John Adams Morgan
1952 Olympic Sailing Gold Medalist
7th cousin 2 times removed via John Perkins
Joseph Wharton
Founder of the Wharton School of Business
8th cousin 1 time removed via Thomas Perkins
Barbara (Pierce) Bush
First Lady of President George H.W. Bush
8th cousin 3 times removed via John Tayer