Famous Kin of
David McCullough

Historian, Author and TV Narrator

Click on the names below to see their relationship charts

Exclude: Great Migration Magna Carta Royalty

Joseph Loomis

(c1590 - 1658)
Great Migration Immigrant 1638

8th great-grandfather

John Gatchell

(c1615 - c1694)
Hopewell passenger 1635

8th great-grandfather

John White

(c1597 - 1683/4)
Lyon passenger 1632

8th great-grandfather

Thomas Sanford

(c1608 - 1681)
Great Migration Immigrant 1634

8th great-grandfather

Thomas Scott

(c1597 - 1643)
Great Migration Immigrant 1634

8th great-grandfather

Richard Brownson

(c1615 - c1687)
Great Migration Immigrant 1635

8th great-grandfather

John Warren

(c1585 - 1667)
Great Migration Immigrant 1630

9th great-grandfather

Ellis Barron

(c1610 - 1676)
Great Migration Immigrant 1640

9th great-grandfather

William Twining

(c1594 - 1659)
Great Migration Immigrant 1640

9th great-grandfather

Richard Warren

(c1578 - 1628)
Mayflower passenger 1620

10th great-grandfather

Anthony Eames

(c1592 - c1670)
Recovery passenger 1634

10th great-grandfather

John Bronson

(c1602 - c1680)
Great Migration Immigrant 1635

8th great-granduncle
via Roger Brownson

Ralph Sprague

(c1595 - 1650)
Great Migration Immigrant 1629

9th great-granduncle
via Edward Sprague

Andrew Warner

(c1599 - 1684)
Great Migration Immigrant 1633

9th great-granduncle
via John Warner

Jonas Galusha

6th and 8th Governor of Vermont

3rd cousin 6 times removed
via Daniel Warren

John Brown

American Abolitionist

4th cousin 4 times removed
via John Loomis

George Henry Bissell

Father of the American Oil Industry

4th cousin 4 times removed
via Daniel White

Eli Whitney

Inventor of the Cotton Gin

4th cousin 5 times removed
via Daniel Warren

Return J. Meigs, Jr.

4th Governor of Ohio

4th cousin 5 times removed
via John Crow

William Williams

Signer of the Declaration of Independence

4th cousin 6 times removed
via Robert White

William Sprague

14th Governor of Rhode Island

4th cousin 6 times removed
via William Sprague

John Hancock

Signer of the Declaration of Independence

4th cousin 7 times removed
via Anthony Eames

Wash Loomis

Leader of the Loomis Gang

5th cousin 3 times removed
via John Loomis

William Rufus Day

36th U.S. Secretary of State

5th cousin 3 times removed
via Joshua Warren

Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood

Leader of the Rough Riders

5th cousin 3 times removed
via Joshua Warren

Eliphalet Remington

Founder of Remington Arms Company

5th cousin 4 times removed
via Richard Brownson

Eliphalet Adams Bulkeley

Founder of Aetna Insurance

5th cousin 4 times removed
via Joseph Loomis

William Sprague

27th Governor of Rhode Island

5th cousin 5 times removed
via William Sprague

Shanghai Pierce

Texas Cattleman

5th cousin 5 times removed
via Joseph Church

Henry David Thoreau

American Author and Poet

5th cousin 5 times removed
via Richard Church

David McCullough photo by Brett Weinstein (CC BY-SA 2.5)