Famous Kin of
Burl Ives
Singer and Actor
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Lavinia Warren
Dwarf Circus Performer
4th cousin 2 times removed via John Willis
William Cullen Bryant
American “Fireside” Poet
4th cousin 4 times removed via John Washburn Jr.
Nicholas Gilman
Signer of the U.S. Constitution
4th cousin 5 times removed via Edward Gilman Jr.
Robert Treat Paine
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
4th cousin 6 times removed via Edward Winslow
Edwin Bryant
California Expedition Journalist
5th cousin 3 times removed via John Washburn Jr.
Cadwallader Washburn
Co-founder of General Mills and 11th Governor of Wisconsin
5th cousin 3 times removed via John Washburn Jr.
Israel Washburn
29th Governor of Maine
5th cousin 3 times removed via John Washburn Jr.
Elihu Washburne
25th U.S. Secretary of State
5th cousin 3 times removed via John Washburn Jr.
George Henry Bissell
Father of the American Oil Industry
5th cousin 3 times removed via John Leavitt
Henry David Thoreau
American Author and Poet
5th cousin 4 times removed via Thomas Hayward
Lucretia (Rudolph) Garfield
First Lady of President James Garfield
6th cousin 3 times removed via John Winslow
Samuel F. B. Morse
Painter and Co-Inventor of Morse Code
6th cousin 3 times removed via John Johnson
William Howard Taft
27th U.S. President
6th cousin 3 times removed via William Cheney
Salmon P. Chase
25th U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
6th cousin 3 times removed via Edward Gilman Jr.
Nathaniel P. Banks
24th Governor of Massachusetts
6th cousin 3 times removed via Thomas Hayward