Famous Kin of
Orrin Hatch
U.S. Senator from Utah
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Elizabeth Smart
Founder of Elizabeth Smart Foundation
3rd cousin 2 times removed via Hezekiah Hatch
Joseph Smith
Founder of the Mormon Church
4th cousin 5 times removed via John Gould
Commodore Matthew C. Perry
Led Black Ships Expedition to Japan
4th cousin 6 times removed via Edmund Freeman
Oliver Hazard Perry
Hero of Lake Erie during the War of 1812
4th cousin 6 times removed via Edmund Freeman
Robert Treat Paine
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
4th cousin 7 times removed via Stephen Hopkins
Ulysses S. Grant
18th U.S. President
5th cousin 3 times removed via Jonathan Hatch
Clement Clarke Moore
Author of “Twas the Night Before Christmas”
5th cousin 4 times removed via Thomas Fish
Elisha Story
Boston Tea Party Participant
5th cousin 5 times removed via Rev. William Eddy of Bristol, England
Merrill C. Meigs
Publisher, Chicago Herald & Examiner
6th cousin 2 times removed via John Mayo
Colonel Robert Gould Shaw
U.S. Civil War leader of film “Glory” fame
6th cousin 3 times removed via John Freeman
Joseph Story
U.S. Supreme Court Justice
6th cousin 4 times removed via Rev. William Eddy of Bristol, England
Samuel F. B. Morse
Painter and Co-Inventor of Morse Code
6th cousin 5 times removed via Thomas French
Laura Ingalls-Wilder
Author of Little House on the Prairie
7th cousin 1 time removed via Jonathan Hatch
Sir Winston Churchill
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
7th cousin 1 time removed via Jonathan Hatch
Clarence Darrow
Lawyer, Scopes Monkey Trial
7th cousin 2 times removed via Samuel Eddy