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Family ancestor’s information includes presidential, royalty and world notable business family members. 

United States Declaration of Independence

John Hancock 

(1736-1793) 

was the first to sign the Declaration of Independence 

Thomas Jefferson 

(1743-1826) 

Principal author of the Declaration of Independence family link Colby Randall Jackson 

(1760-1826)

U.S. Presidents

               George Washington          

                  1st U.S. President

John Adams

2nd U.S. President & Signer of the Declaration of Independence                

Thomas Jefferson

3rd U.S. President 

Signer of the Declaration of Independence

James Madison

4th U.S. President

John Quincy Adams

6th U.S. President

William Henry Harrison

9th U.S. President

Zachary Taylor

12th U.S. President

Millard Fillmore

13th U.S. President

Franklin Pierce

14th U.S. President

Abraham Lincoln

16th U.S. President

Ulysses S. Grant

18th U.S. President

Rutherford B. Hayes

19th U.S. President

James Garfield

20th U.S. President

Chester Arthur

21st U.S. President

               Grover Cleveland            22nd and 24th U.S. President

              Benjamin Harrison

23rd U.S. President

Theodore Roosevelt

26th U.S. President

William Howard Taft

27th U.S. President

Warren G. Harding

29th U.S. President

Calvin Coolidge

30th U.S. President

Herbert Hoover

31st U.S. President

Franklin D. Roosevelt

32nd U.S. President

Richard Nixon

37th U.S. President

Gerald Ford

38th U.S. President

Jimmy Carter

39th U.S. President

George H. W. Bush

41st U.S. President

George W. Bush

43rd U.S. President

Barack Obama

44th U.S. President

U.S. Vice Presidents

George Clinton

4th U.S. Vice President

Charles Dawes

30th U.S. Vice-President

Charles Curtis

31st U.S. Vice-President

Dan Quayle

44th U.S. Vice-President

Dick Cheney

46th U.S. Vice-President

Governors

Adlai Stevenson II     

31st Governor of Illinois

Bill Weld

68th Governor of Massachusetts

Bob Taft

67th Governor of Ohio

Cadwallader Washburn

Co-founder of General Mills and 11th Governor of Wisconsin

Charles Carnan Ridgely

15th Governor of Maryland

Christian Herter

59th Governor of Massachusetts

DeWitt Clinton

6th Governor of New York

Edward Lloyd V

13th Governor of Maryland

Endicott Peabody

62nd Governor of Massachusetts

Eugene Foss

45th Governor of Massachusetts

Fitzhugh Lee

40th Governor of Virginia

George Romney

43rd Governor of Michigan

Harry F. Byrd

50th Governor of Virginia

Henry Crapo

14th Governor of Michigan

Henry Lee III

9th Governor of Virginia

Henry Lloyd

40th Governor of Maryland

Howard Dean

79th Governor of Vermont

Ichabod Goodwin

27th Governor of New Hampshire

Israel Washburn

29th Governor of Maine

Jacob Dolson Cox

28th Governor of Ohio

James Youngs Smith

29th Governor of Rhode Island

Jeb Bush

43rd Governor of Florida

Jonathan Trumbull

20th Governor of Connecticut

Leverett Saltonstall

55th Governor of Massachusetts

Levi Lincoln

13th Governor of Massachusetts

Mike Huckabee

44th Governor of Arkansas

Mitt Romney

70th Governor of Massachusetts

Owen Brewster

54th Governor of Maine

Patrick Henry

1st and 6th Governor of Virginia

Return J. Meigs, Jr.

4th Governor of Ohio

Samuel Ward King

15th Governor of Rhode Island

Sarah Palin

9th Governor of Alaska

Silas Woodson

21st Governor of Missouri

Thomas Sim Lee

2nd and 7th Governor of Maryland

William Greene

2nd Governor of Rhode Island

William Sprague

27th Governor of Rhode Island

Foreign Leaders

Pierre Trudeau

15th Prime Minister of Canada

Sir Charles Tupper

6th Prime Minister of Canada

Sir Robert Laird Borden

8th Prime Minister of Canada

Sir Winston Churchill

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Space

Alan Shepard

Mercury and Apollo Astronaut

Buzz Aldrin

Apollo 11 Astronaut

Story Musgrave

NASA Astronaut

Military

Admiral George Dewey

Admiral of the Navy

Admiral Robert Blake

Father of the Royal Navy

Alan Turing

WWII Codebreaker of Nazi Enigma Machine

Allen Dulles

5th Director of the C.I.A.

Colonel Robert Gould Shaw

Principal character of film Glory portrayed by Matthew Broderick

Ethan Allen

Revolutionary War Hero

General Douglas MacArthur

U.S. Army - World War II

General George B. McClellan

Union Army - U.S. Civil War

General George S. Patton

U.S. Army - World War II

General James Longstreet

Confederate Army - U.S. Civil War

General Joseph Warren

Killed at Battle of Bunker Hill

General Robert E. Lee

Confederate Army - U.S. Civil War

General William Tecumseh Sherman

Union Army - U.S. Civil War

Lt. Gen. James Brudenell

Leader of the “Charge of the Light Brigade”

Maj. Gen. Nathanael Greene

American Revolution

Rear Admiral William Folger

United States Navy

WARS

Revolutionary War (1775-1783)

Aaron Adams 

(1738-1819) 

Captain Command in Colonel Thomas Stickney’s New Hampshire Militia

Benjamin Pool 

(1724-1795) 

Private Continental Troops

David Elijah Lindsay 

(1750-1835)

 2nd, 3rd, 4th & 6th

Regiments Virginia Continental T Troops

Ebenezer Robbins 

(1683-1782) 

Sergeant Continental Troops

Ebenezer Bancroft 

(1667-1717) 

father Captain

Ebenezer Bancroft 

(1700-1770) 

son Captain Fought at Bunker Hill

Timothy Bancroft 

(1709-1772) 

son Lieutenant

Frances Blood 

(1735-1814) 

General

Ichabod Ide 

(1717-1785) 

Private Continental Troops Vermont

Jabez Alexander 

(1755-1843) 

Private New Hampshire Militia

James Casey 

(1760-1830) 

Matross

Continental Troops-Artillery in the Battalion

James Smith 

(1763-1844) 

Private Continental Troops

John Knowles 

(1673-1757) 

Private Massachusetts

Johnathan Foster 

(1712-1775) 

Private in Captain John Walton Company Massachusetts

Joseph Steward Jr. 

(1712-1780) 

Private

Mathew Cushing 

(1730-1813) 

Private Vermont

Private in Capt. James Clay’s Company, Colonel Bradley’s Regiment Vermont Line

Paul Langdon 

(1646-1697) 

Capitan Connecticut

Samuel Titus 

(1734-1818) 

Capitan Continental Troops

Thomas Alexander 

(1721-1756) 

Captain Porter’s Regiment Massachusetts

Thomas Hunt 

(1648-1721) 

Capitan

Tilley Howe 

(1757-1813) 

Ashley’s Regiment New Hampshire Enlisted 7-11-1777

War of 1812 

(1812-1814)

Johnathan McCarty 

(1756-1827) 

Private Green’s Regiment Mounted Infantry Virginia

John Puffenberger 

(1785-1864) 

Private-Capt. M. Engle’s

Enlisted 2-6-1813 Discharged 

8-5-1813

Patrick Riley 

(1751-1823) 

in Capt. William Russel’s Company

Tennessee Militia

Samuel Trumbull 

(1787-1824) 

Massachusetts

Enlisted 9-24-1814 Discharged 12-15-1814

Civil War 

(1861-1865)

Abraham Jackson Parrish 

(1822-1914) 

Private Union 57th

Regular Indiana Infantry

Andrew Gamble 

(1836-1915) 

Private Company “A” 157 Ohio Infantry Enlisted 5-15-1864 Discharged 9-2-1864

Archibald Shaw 

(1809-1891) 

Private Ohio

Charles J. McKay 

(1832-1920) 

Private Union Company “I” 147th

Regiment Indiana Infantry

Ephraim Keyes 

(1715-1802) 

Lieutenant 16th

Regiment New Hampshire

Fredrick R. Glassford 

(1843-1900 

Company “E” 78 Ohio Infantry

George Washington Lambert (1831-1911) 

Private Virginia

Enlisted 7-11-1863 CompanyA26th Cavalry Regiment Promoter to Full Teamster

Henry Hudson Prentice 

(1819-1903) 

Private Union 3rd

Calvary Company “F” Massachusetts

Entered Oct. 27, 1862 Mustered Out June 13, 1865 POW Yes Wounded Yes Survived the War 

James Ousley 

(1838-1919) 

Private

Milton B Mitt Petree 

(1847-1911) 

Private Union1 st

Regiment Tennessee Infantry Entered 7-18-1863

Thomas Gamble 

(1832-1909) 

Union Enlisted 5-2-1864 Ohio 157th Infantry

Thomas Steinard 

(1843-1863) 

Private Union Army 15th

Infantry Buried at Jefferson Barracks

National Cemetery (died of Typhoid Fever)

Washington Riley 

(1821-1880) 

Private Union Douglas County Home Guards 1861 73rd Regiment E.M.M. 1862 46th

Regiment Missouri Militia Infantry

William Gamble 

(1828-1908) 

Corporal Union Company “D” Ohio 157 th Infantry Enlisted 5-15-1864 mustered out 9-2-1864

William Wesley Greer 

(1835-1918) 

Union Company “D” Ohio 49th Infantry Enlisted 1861 Muster out 9-5-1864

William Keys 

(1740-1813) 

Captain Union 1st Regiment Connecticut

William Sims 

(1831-1907) 

Major Union Company “G” Ohio 32nd Ohio Infantry Company “A” Ohio 9th Calvary Enlisted 10-3-1862 Mustered 6-21-1864

Thomas Frank Veysey 

(1834-1906)

Colored Troops 

CIVIL WAR

 (1861-1865)

Dallas “Dal” Wilson 

(1844-1918) 

Union 6th

Calvary U.S.C.T Camp Nelson KY Enlisted 9-23-1864

Robert H. Isabelle 

(1840-1912) 

Union Capt. 7 th

Robert Marshall's Grandfather Regiment Louisiana Infantry Company “A”2 nd. Lt. 74th

Regiment Louisiana Infantry Company “H”

James Isabell 

Company "H" Regiment Louisiana Infantry Heavy Artillery 

1864-1865 

James Marshall's Uncle

 Confederate

James Ousley 

(1838- 1919) 

Private  7th regiment Tenn. Mounted Infantry

WWI 

(1914-1918)

Arthur Justice 

(1892-1961) 

PFC Army Entered 10-6-1917

Emmitt Newton Bland 

(1897-1971) 

Private Army

Entered 3-22-1918 Released 

7-8-1919 U.S. National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers Paralysis of lower extremities

WWII 

(1939-1945)

Adolphus Ritchie 

(1904-1978) 

Private Army

Enter 7-9-1942 Released 4-18-1945 Warrant Officers

Arthur Earnest Robarg

(1925-1984)

Navy U.S. ship “Pinkney”

James Heskiah Anderson 

(1911-1997) 

Private Army

Enter 2-16-1944 Released 10-3-1944

James Ralph Solomon 

(1926-2011) 

Navy

Joseph L. Brooks 

(1922-1977) 

Army

Enter 1-18-1943 Released 11-28-1945

Leonard Anthony Pelsinski (1927-1988) 

Navy

Enter 5-3-1945 Released 8-18-1945

Luther Brooks 

(1924-2007) 

Army

Enter 4-3-1943 Released 12-28-1945

Ralph Joseph Solomon 

(1898-1978) 

Private Army

Enter 8-27-1942 Released 4-7-1943

Sidney Max Robarge 

(1926-1994) 

Army

Enter 11-13-1945 Released 12-23-1946

Sinnie Bates 

(1912-1977) 

Private Army Indiana

Walter Williams 

(1924-1988) 

6 years Army Enter 10-15-1943 Released 4-22-1949

6 years Army Enter 4-25-1949 Released 6-16-1952

16 years Army Enter 6-28-1952 Released 2-2-196

 

 

Guinness World Records

Layne Hall 

Marshall's Grandfather The Oldest Know Driver Age 110 years old 1880-1990

Inventors

Charles Goodyear

Inventor and namesake of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.

Earl Tupper

Inventor and Founder of Tupperware

Eli Whitney

Inventor of the Cotton Gin

Elias Howe

Inventor, Lockstitch Sewing Machine

Gail Borden III

Inventor of Condensed Milk

George Gallup

Inventor of the Gallup Poll

Howard Hughes

American Business Tycoon

John Batterson Stetson

Inventor of the Cowboy Hat

John Fitch

Inventor of 1st U.S. Steamboat

Joseph Glidden

Inventor of Barbed Wire

Melvil Dewey

Inventor of the Dewey Decimal System

Robert H. Goddard

Inventor of First Liquid-propelled Rocket

Samuel Colt

Inventor of the Colt Revolver

Thomas Edison

Inventor electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures

Timothy Leatherman

Founder of Leatherman Tools

Willis Carrier

Inventor of Air Conditioning

TV & Film

Alan Ladd

Movie Actor

Anderson Cooper

Television Journalist

Andrew Shue

TV Actor

Anna Gunn

TV and Movie Actress

Anne Baxter

Movie Actress

Ben Affleck

Movie Actor

Benedict Cumberbatch

Movie, Television and Stage Actor

Bing Crosby

Singer and Movie Actor

Brad Pitt

Movie Actor

Bridget Fonda

Movie Actress

Brooke Shields

Movie Actress and Model

Burgess Meredith

TV and Movie Actor

Burl Ives

Singer and Actor

Burt Reynolds

Movie Actor

Cara Delevingne

Fashion Model and Movie Actress

Chevy Chase

Comedian, Actor and Writer

Chris Pratt

TV and Movie Actor

Christopher Lloyd

Movie Actor

Christopher Reeve

Movie Actor

Clint Eastwood

TV & Film Actor and Director

David Carradine

TV and Movie Actor

David Hyde Pierce

Stage, TV, and Movie Actor

Dick Clark

Radio and TV Host

Dick Van Dyke

TV Actor - “The Dick Van Dyke Show”

Don Winslow

Author and Screenwriter

Donnie Wahlberg

Singer and Movie Actor

Edward Norton

Movie Actor

Elisabeth Shue

TV and Movie Actress

Elizabeth Montgomery

TV Actress - “Bewitched”

Elizabeth Smart

Founder of Elizabeth Smart Foundation

Elizabeth Taylor

Movie Actress

Ellen DeGeneres

Comedienne and TV Personality

Erle Stanley Gardner

Author of the Perry Mason series

Felicity Huffman

TV & Movie Actress

Gene Roddenberry

Creator of Star Trek

General Tom Thumb

Dwarf Circus Performer

Glenn Close

Movie, Television, and Stage Actress

Guy Ritchie

British Filmmaker

Henry Fonda

Movie Actor

Hugh Grant

Movie Actor

Humphrey Bogart

Movie Actor

Illeana Douglas

TV and Movie Actress

J. K. Simmons

TV and Movie Actor

Jake Gyllenhaal

Movie Actor

James Brolin

TV and Movie Actor

James Dean

Movie Actor

James Spader

TV and Movie Actor

Jane Fonda

Movie Actress

Jim Carrey

TV & Movie Actor

Joan Fontaine

Movie Actress

Jodie Foster

Movie Actress

John Cena

Movie Actor and WWE Pro Wrestle

John Lithgow

Stage, TV, and Movie Actor

John Ritter

TV and Movie Actor

John Wayne

Movie Actor

Johnny Carson

TV Host - “The Tonight Show”

Josh Brolin

TV and Movie Actor

Kardashian Klan 

TV Personalities

Katharine Hepburn

Movie Actress

Kelsey Grammer

TV and Movie Actor

Kit Harington

TV Actor - “Game of Thrones”

Kyra Sedgwick

TV and Movie Actress

Lavinia Warren

Dwarf Circus Performer

Lee Remick

Movie Actress

Linda Hamilton

TV and Movie Actress

Linda Hunt

TV and Movie Actress

Liv Tyler

TV and Movie Actress

Lucille Ball

TV Actress - “I Love Lucy”

Maggie Gyllenhaal

Movie Actress

Marilyn Monroe

Actress, Model, and Singer

Mark Wahlberg

Movie Actor

Marlon Brando

Movie Actor

Melvyn Douglas

Movie Actor

Mickey Rourke

Movie Actor

Oliver Platt

Movie Actor

Olivia De Havilland

Movie Actress

Orson Welles

Radio, Stage, and Movie Actor

Paget Brewster

TV Actress

Paris Hilton

Socialite and TV Personality

Peter Fonda

TV and Movie Actor

Randolph Scott

Movie Actor

Raquel Welch

Movie Actress

Richard Gere

Movie Actor

Richard Hatch

TV and Movie Actor

Roy Rogers

Cowboy movie actor and singer

Ryan Gosling

Movie Star

Scott Foley

TV, Stage and Movie Actor

Seth MacFarlane

Actor, Animator, Writer and Producer

Sigourney Weaver

Movie Actress

Slim Pickens

TV and Movie Actor

Spencer Tracy

Movie Actor

Ted Danson

TV Actor - “Cheers”, “CSI”

Tilda Swinton

Movie Actress

Treat Williams

TV & Movie Actor

Tuesday Weld

TV and Movie Actress

Vincent Price

Movie Actor

William H. Macy

TV and Movie Actor

Music

Berry Gordy

Founder of Motown Records

Brian Wilson

Co-Founder of The Beach Boys

Carl Wilson

Co-Founder of The Beach Boys

Dennis Wilson

Co-Founder of The Beach Boys

Celine Dion

Singer and Songwriter

Grace Slick

Singer, Songwriter - Jefferson Airplane

Harry Chapin

Singer and Songwriter

James Taylor

Singer-Songwriter

Janice Joplin

Singer & Songwriter

Johnny Mercer

Songwriter and Co-Founder of Capitol Records

Justin Bieber

Singer and Songwriter

Madonna

Singer and Songwriter

Mary Chapin Carpenter

Singer and Songwriter

Mike Love

Co-Founder of the Beach Boys

Taylor Swift

Singer and Songwriter

Literary

Anthony West

Novelist and writer for the New Yorker

Clement Clarke Moore

Author of “Twas the Night Before Christmas”

E. M. Forster

English Novelist

Ernest Hemingway

Author of The Sun Also Rises

General George C. Marshall

Author of “The Marshall Plan”

Harper Lee

Author of To Kill a Mockingbird

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Harriet Martineau

Author of The Hour and the Man

Helen Keller

Author and Activist

Hetty Green

“The Witch of Wall Street”

Jack London

Author of “The Call of the Wild”

James Russell Lowell

American “Fireside” Poet

John Greenleaf Whittier

American “Fireside” Poet

John Steinbeck

Author of The Grapes of Wrath

Jonathan Swift

Author of Gulliver's Travels

Julia (Ward) Howe

Author of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”

Julia Child

American Chef, Author and TV Personality

L. Frank Baum

Author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Laura Ingalls-Wilder

Author of Little House on the Prairie

Lewis Carroll

Author of Alice in Wonderland

Louis Auchincloss

Author

Louis L'Amour

Western Author

Louisa May Alcott

Author of Little Women

Nathaniel Philbrick

Author of In the Heart of the Sea

Ralph Waldo Emerson

American Poet

Ray Bradbury

Author of The Martian Chronicles

Robert Frost

Poet and Playwright

Sam Walter Foss

American Poet

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Author, “Sherlock Holmes”

Stephen King

Author of The Stand

Tennessee Williams

Author of A Streetcar Named Desire

Thomas Pynchon

American Novelist

Truman Capote

Author of In Cold Blood

Upton Sinclair

Pulitzer Prize Winning Novelist

Vachel Lindsay

American Poet

Walt Whitman

American Poet

In the Military but not deployed to any wars

Joseph Weld 

(1650-1712) 

Lieutenant Massachusetts Colony

Joseph Weld 

(1598-1646) 

Captain Massachusetts Colony

Eleazer Tyng 

(1690-1782) 

Colonel Massachusetts Colony

Edward Tyng 

(16949-1701) 

Lt. Colonel

William Watkins 

(1690-1770) 

Captain

Moses Read 

(1650-1716) 

Captain King Philip's War, sometimes called the First Indian War

Christopher Osgood IV 

Captain King Philip's War, sometimes called the First Indian War

William Marston 

(1590-1672) 

Captain?

Arthur Armour  

Korean Marshall's Brother

Jack Hall 

Vietnam Marshall's Brother

Mayflower Descendants 

 Mayflower Descendants’ that Marshall T. Hall is related to:
   Original Family Member:   James Chilton
Descendant John Gray 

(1671-1732
 Original Family Member: 

William Brewster
Descendant Chillingsworth Foster 

His Wife Mercy Freeman 

 (1687‐1720) 

child of 

John Freeman
Original Family Member: 

Richard Knowles
Descendant John Knowles 

(1673‐1757)

 

 Family Members that were Quakers

 Phoebe (De Moss) Pearson 

(1752-1841)

William Person 

(1783-1867)

Family Members that were Mennonite

 Abraham Beidler 

(1737-1810)

Abraham Beidler 

(1777-1849)

Jacob Beidler 

(1760-1833)

Jacob Beidler 

(1782-1830)

Susanna Beidler 

(1789-1851)

Ulrich Hockman

(1714-1797)

Ulrich Beidler 

1779-1847)

(Wars Continued)

Korean War

(1950-1953)

Ell Eugene Mitchell 

(1931-2005)

John S. Wagner

Corporal Army 

 (1929-1984)

PFC Army

Nygean Johnson 

(1933-1990) 

Navy

Enter 12-2-1952 Released 12-1-1956

Richard Duncan 

(1931-1985) 

Air Force

Enter 1-16-1951 Released 10-29-1954

Willis Brooks 

(1930-2003) 

Army

Enter 2-19-1951 Released 10-29-1956

Vietnam War 

(1955-1975)

Timothy Hall 

First Cousin

Persian Gulf War (1990-1991)

No family members

Afghan War

No family members

Iraq War 

(2003-2011)

               John Buchanan Jr                                  Great Nephew

 

Founders of Companies

Abigail Folger

Charles Manson Murder Victim and Folger Coffee Heiress

Albert G. Spalding

Co-Founder of Spalding Sporting Goods Co.

Alfred Fuller

Founder of the Fuller Brush Co.

Andrew Burton

Founder of Life and Casualty Insurance Company (now part of AIG)

Bill Gates

Founder of Microsoft

C. W. Post

Founder of Post Cereals

Cadwallader Washburn

Co-founder of General Mills and 11th Governor of Wisconsin

Charles A. Pillsbury

Co-Founder of C.A. Pillsbury Co

Charles Edward Merrill

Co-Founder of Merrill Lynch & Company

Charles Fleischmann

Founder of Fleischmann Yeast Co

Charles Lewis Tiffany

Co-Founder of Tiffany & Co.

Charlie Munger

Vice-Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway

Clara Barton

Founder of the American Red Cross

Dr. John Morgan

Co-Founder, 1st American Medical School

Eliphalet Remington

Founder of Remington Arms Company

Elisha Otis

Founder of the Otis Elevator Company

Ezra Cornell

Co-Founder of Cornell University,

Founder of Western Union

Francis Edward Hinckley

Co-Founder of the University of Chicago

Frank W. Woolworth

Founder of F.W. Woolworth Company

Frederick Upton

Co-Founder of Whirlpool Corporation

George Eastman

Founder of Eastman Kodak Company

Gloria Vanderbilt

American Artist, Author, Actress, Fashion Designer, Heiress and Socialite

Henry Clay Folger

Founder of Folger Shakespeare Library and Chairman of Standard Oil

Henry Sturgis Morgan

Co-Founder of Morgan Stanley

Henry Wells

Co-Founder of American Express and Wells Fargo and Co

J. A. Folger

Founder of Folger Coffee Company

J. B. Lippincott

Founder of J.B. Lippincott & Co.

J.P. Morgan

American Banker and Art Collector

J.P. Morgan, Jr.

American Banker and Philanthropist

John Carroll

Founder of Georgetown University

John D. Rockefeller

Founder of the Standard Oil Company

John Sargent Pillsbury

Co-Founder of C.A. Pillsbury Co.

Joseph Smith

Founder of the Mormon Church

Joseph Wharton

Founder of the Wharton School of Business

Joy Morton

Founder of Morton Salt Company

Lee B. Loomis

Founder of Loomis Armored Car Service

Lewis Henry Lapham

Co-Founder of Texaco

Liz Claiborne

Founder of Liz Claiborne Inc.

Lytton Strachey

Author and Co-Founder of Bloomsbury Group

Marjorie Post

Founder of General Foods

Marshall Field

Founder of Marshall Field & Co

Oliver Winchester

Founder of Winchester Repeating Arms Co

Philip Danforth Armour

Founder of Armour & Company

Potter Palmer

Co-Founder of Marshall Fields

Rev. James Pierpont

Founder of Yale University

Richard Warren Sears

Co-Founder of Sears, Roebuck, & Co.

Roger Nash Baldwin

Co-Founder of the ACLU

Rowland H. Macy

Founder of Macy's

Thomas J. Watson, Jr.

President and CEO of I.B.M.

W. K. Kellogg

Founder of the Kellogg Company

Walt Disney

Co-Founder of the Walt Disney Company

Warren Buffett

Chairman & CEO, Berkshire Hathaway

William Durant

Co-Founder of General Motors and Founder of Frigidaire

Francis Harrington Glidden
Co-Founder of Glidden Company

Henry Luce
Co-Founder of Time, Life, Fortune and Sports Illustrated magazines 

Notables

Admiral Richard Byrd

Polar Explorer

Amelia Earhart

Aviation Pioneer

Archer Alexander

Heroic Slave

Barbara Hutton

Socialite (aka “Poor Little Rich Girl”)

Benedict Arnold

Traitor of the American Revolution

Brigham Young

2nd President of the Mormon Church

Caesar Rodney

Signer of the Declaration of Independence

Carly Fiorina

CEO of Hewlett-Packard

Charles Darwin

Theory of Evolution

Clarence Darrow

Lawyer, Scopes Monkey Trial

Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt

Railroad Magnate

Cornplanter 

Seneca War Chief

Dr. Benjamin Spock

American Pediatrician and Author on Child Care

Dr. H. H. Holmes

Serial Killer aka “Devil in the White City”

Dr. Hawley H. Crippen

Murderer in Erik Larson's “Thunderstruck”

Edward Snowden

Ex-CIA / NSA Whistleblower

Edwin Hubble

Astronomer

Fletcher Christian

Leader of the mutiny on the Bounty

Francis Scott Key

Author of “The Star Spangled Banner”

Frank Lloyd Wright

American Architect

Henry Huttleston Rogers

Oil Tycoon

Homer G. Balcom

Designer of the Empire State Building

Horace Gray

U.S. Supreme Court Justice

Howard Hughes

American Business Tycoon

Jay Gould

American Railroad “Robber Baron”

Frank James & Jesse James

Outlaw, Bank Robber, Murder

John Hinckley, Jr.

Shot President Ronald Reagan

Lee Harvey Oswald

Accused Assassin of President John F. Kennedy

Lizzie Borden

Accused Murderess

Louis Comfort Tiffany

American Stained Glass Artist

Mary (Perkins) Bradbury

Convicted of Witchcraft, Salem 1692

Mary (Towne) Eastey

Executed for Witchcraft, Salem 1692

Meriwether Lewis

Lewis and Clark Expedition

Nathan Hale

America's First Spy

Norman Rockwell

American Artist

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice

Orville & Wilbur Wright

Wright Brothers - Aviation Pioneer

Rachel (Varney) (Cook) (Langton) Vinson

Accused of Witchcraft, Salem 1692

Rebecca (Towne) Nurse

Executed for Witchcraft, Salem 1692

Rev. George Burroughs

Executed for Witchcraft, Salem 1692

Richard More

Mayflower Passenger

Robert Catesby

Leader of Gunpowder Plot

Robert Townsend

Member of the Culper Spy Ring during the American Revolution

Samuel Prescott

Completed Paul Revere's Midnight Ride

Sandra Day O'Connor

First Female U.S. Supreme Court Justice

Sarah (Towne) Cloyce

Accused of Witchcraft, Salem 1692

Shanghai Pierce

Texas Cattleman

Stephen Austin

Father of Texas

Susan B. Anthony

Women's Rights Advocate

Sydney Biddle Barrows

Mayflower Madam

Thomas Hunt Morgan

Nobel Prize Winner in Physiology or Medicine

Wash Loomis

Leader of the Loomis Gang

Wild Bill Hickok

Gunfighter and Lawman

Sports

Ty Cobb

Hall of Fame Major League Baseball Player

Aaron Rodgers

Quarterback for the Green Bay Packers

Bobby Riggs

Pro-Tennis Champion

Cal Ripken, Jr.

Hall of Fame Major League Baseball Player

Dave Cowens

NBA Hall of Famer

Drew Brees

NFL Quarterback

Joe Buck

Sportscaster

Joe Lintzenich

NFL Player (Chicago Bears)

John Adams Morgan

1952 Olympic Sailing Gold Medalist

Kevin Love

NBA All-Star Player

Steve Young

Football Hall of Fame Quarterback

Tom Landry

NFL Hall of Famer Coach

Royalty Family Continued

Sir Alexander de Douglas 

(1562-1618)

Sir Anthony William Hickman (1525-1573)

Sir Baron Roger I North, of Walkeringham 

(1390 -1478)

Sir Baron Roger II North, of Walkeringham, Mercer 

(1460 - 1509)

Sir Brabey 

(1560-)

Sir Charles Plantagenet DeBeaufort Somerset 

(1517 - )

Sir Chickle 

(1555-)

Sir Edward Somerset/ 4th Earl of Worchester 

(1550 - 1628)

Sir Edward North, 1st Baron of North Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire Clerk of the Parliaments 

(1496-1564)

Sir Edward Ware Hertfordshire Heath

(1525-1593)

Sir George de Douglas 

(1556-1590)

Sir George Fitch 

(1556-1605)

Sir Giles Hussey 

(1505-1537)

Sir Henry 1st Baronet of Blickling Hall and Chief Justice of Common Pleas Henry Hobart (1560 - 1625)

Sir Henry Robert Graham 

(1475-1507)

Sir James Bolton 

(1492 - 1549)

Sir James Hobart 

(1436-1507)

Sir John Anstell 

(1440-1534)

Sir John Blennerhassett Esquire 

(1423 - 1510)

Sir John Bon

(1531-1583)

Sir John Browne 2nd 

(1408-1470)

Sir John Darcy 

(1377-1411)

Sir John Harrington 

(1281-1359)

Sir John of Cheshire Dutton (1538-1608)

Sir John of Richmond

Yorkshire Wycliffe 

(1420-1484)

Sir Robert de Ros 

Magna Carta Surety (-1227)

Sir Knight Christopher Ward (1450-1521)

Sir Knight Edmund de Beddingfield

 (1400-1451)

Sir Knight George I Bowes 

(1537-1580)

Sir Knight Henry Rishton (Rushton) 

(1425 - 1490)

Sir Knight John Anstell 

(1468-1505)

Sir Knight John Conyers 

Knight of the Garter 

(1416-1490)

Sir Knight John de Radclyffe (Slain at the Battle of Bosworth) (1429 -1485)

Sir Knight John Lord of Kelvedon Manor Wright 

(1488-1551)

Sir Knight Miles Hobart 

(1479 - 1557)

Sir Knight Roger Warde (1430-1472)

Sir Knight Thomas 

Last Lord of Denham Castle De Bedingfield 

(1428-1453)

Sir Knight William Gascoigne (1366-1422)

Sir Lord Thomas III Tunstall 

(1418-1499)

Sir Michael 

Sherrif Locke 

(1510 - 1580)

Sir Phillip 

Sheriff & Mayor of Vintry Ward Cooke 

(1448-1478)

Sir Ralph Bowes 

(van Streatlam) High Sheriff Durham 

(1495-1554)

Sir Ralph Cundall Neville 

(1478-1522)

Sir Richard Brooke 

(1525-1594)

Sir Richard Chetwood

(1560-1631)

Sir Richard Conyers 

(1438-1490)

Sir Richard Strangewayes 

(1433-1488)

Sir Richard Thomas 

(1520-1591)

Sir Richard Tunstall 

(1427-1491)

Sir Robert (Sheriff) Needham (1476-1556)

Sir Robert de Douglas 

of Glenbervie 

(1562-1592)

Sir Robert de Graham 

of Morphie (1506-1547)

Sir Robert Needham 

of Shavington 

(1480-1556)

Sir Robert Needham 

Viscount Kilmorey Ireland 

(1600-1653)

Sir Robert Ros 

(1410-1455)

Sir Robert Tyrone 

(Sheriff of Shropshire) Needham

 (1533–1603)

Sir Roger I North

Baron North of Walkeringham 

(1390-1478)
 

Sir Roger Paul Wilkinson

(1455 -1526)

Sir Saier de Quincy

 1st Earl of Winchester, Magna Carta Surety (1150-1219)

Sir Thomas 

(Earl of Kilmorey Ireland) Dutton 

(1568-1614)

Sir Thomas Carter 

(1495-1571)

Sir Thomas Cooke 

(1471-1544)

Sir Thomas Erskine 

(1418-1493)

Sir Thomas Fitch 

(1590-1633)

Sir Thomas Hussey 

(1526-1570)

Sir Thomas I Tunstall 

(1358-1415)

Sir Thomas Needham of Shavington 

(1510-1570)

Sir Thomas North 

(1535 -1601)

Sir Thomas Ros 

(1447-1505)

Sir Thomas Somerset 

(1578 - 1650)

Sir Thomas Tunstall 

of Thurland 

(1386-1431)

Sir Walter Hobart 

(1477 -1538)

Sir William Archibald de Douglas II

10th Earl of Angus 

(1554-1610)

Sir William Bowes II 

Sheriff of Northumberland 

(1446-1512)

Sir William Carter, I 

(1510-1569)

Sir William Harrington 

(1377-1440)

Sir William Hickman 

(1549-1625)

Sir William Locke

 Sheriff of London Knight 

(1480-1550)

Sir William Pead Paddy 

(1585 - 1610)

Sir William VI de Ros 

7th Baron of Ros, Knight of the Garter, 5th Baron of Fitz Alan, Lord Treasurer of England knight of Ingmanthorpe 

(1370-1414)

Sir William Wilcockes 

(1410-1461)

Sir William Wilkinson

High Sheriff of London 

(1496 -1592)

Direct Descendant of Queen Elizabeth II 

She was born Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Mary on April 21, 1926, in London, to Prince Albert, Duke of York (later known as King George VI), and Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon. Became queen on February 6, 1952, and was crowned on June 2, 1953. 

Charles III Philip Arthur George is King of the United Kingdom and the 14 other Commonwealth realms

1948 

King Harold II Godwinson was the last Anglo Saxon King of England 

(1022-1066)

Harold was king from January 6 1066 until his death at the Battle of Hastings October 14th 1066, fighting the Norman invaders led by William the Conqueror.

King Charlemagne Charles I, 

of the Franks 

(742-814)

King Alfred the Great 

of Wessex 

(847/849-899)

King Robert I

of France 

(865-923)

1st King William the Conqueror (1028-1087)  

3rd King Henry I Beauclerc 

(1068-1135)

1st King Henry II of Plantagenet 

(1133-1189)

4th King John I 

(1166-1216)

5th King Henry III 

of Winchester" Plantagenet, Lord of Ireland, Duke of Aquitaine, Prince of England, King of England 

(1207-1272)

6th King Edward I 

of England Plantagenet

(1239-1307)

7th King Edward II 

Plantagenet 

(1284-1327)

8th King Edward III 

Plantagenet 

(1312-1377)

King Alexander II, 

King of Scotland 

(1198-1249)

King of Spain Ferdinand Fernando III 

the Saint Alfonso de Castile de Burgundy-Spain King of Castile Toledo Leon Galicia & Austurie Saint of th de Castile-Leon 

(1199-1252)

King Leka I 

of the Albanians 

(1939-2001)

King Louis VI 

of France 

(1081-1137)

Prince Henry 

Prince of England

(1258-1259)

Prince William 

Duke of Cambridge 

(1982-)

Prince Harry 

Duke of Sussex 

(1984-)

Princess Anne Boleyn 

(1501-1536)  

2nd Wife of King Henry VIII

Princess Beatrice 

of England 

(1286-1286)

Princess Beatrice Plantagenet (1242-1275)

Princess Diana of Wales 

(1961-1997)

Queen Eleanor 

Married of King Edward I Consort Castile from Spain 

(1241-1290)

Queen Catherine Parr 

6th and last Wife of King Henry VIII 

(1512-1548)

Queen Eleanor 

Queen Consort Castile 

(1241-1290)

Queen Isabelle Queen 

married King Edward II Princess de France (1295-1358)

Queen Joan Lady 

Queen Consort of the Scots Beaufort (1410 -1445)

Queen Margaret of Scotts 

(1238-1275)

Queen Philippa Hainault D Avesnes/ Queen Consort to King Edward III 

(1311-1369) 

FIRST BLACK QUEEN 

Queen Consort Eléanor ""of Provence" de Berengier, Lady of Provence, Countess of Provence & Ponthieu, Baroness of Ireland,

Queen Jane Seymour 

3rd Wife of King Henry VIII 

(1508-1536)

Duchess of Aquitaine

Queen Consort of England 

(1217-1291)"

Baron John Fitz Robert

Magna Carta Surety 

(1190-1240)

Baron Roger North 

(1530 - 1600)

Baroness Bridget Bowes 

of Richmond 

(1526-1575)

Baroness Catherine Somerset Petre Writtle 

(1585-1624)

Baroness Elizabeth 

3rd Baroness Herbert & Countess of Worcester HERBERT 

(1476 -1507)

Baroness Elizabeth Aske Baroness of Richmond 

(1505-1568)

Cardinal Bishop Henry Fermor Cardinal, Bishop of Winchester, de Beaufort 

(1374-1447)

Count Louis DuMas the Hugeunot Demoss I 

(1669-1685)

Count Raymond IV "The Saint" de Berengier, 

Count of Provence & Forcalquier 

(1198-1245)

Countess Alice FitzAlan Countess Kent Lady de Arundel 

(1352 -1416)

Countess Anne 

Countess of Northumberland Beaufort Somerset Lady 

(1538 -1591)

Countess Eleanor Beauchamp (1407 -1467)

Countess Eleanor Plantagenet Beaufort, 

Countess of Wiltshire 

(1431-1501)

Countess Elizabeth Countess of Worcester BROWNE 

(1501 - 1565)

Countess Janet 

"Countess of Malise" De Rochford 

(1413-1476)

Countess Joan 

Countess Wessex Beaufort 

(1375-1440)

Countess Lady Margaret  Sir Robert I Tudenham 

of Oxborough De Herling 

(1372-1416)

Countess Lucy  Chepstowe Baroness Somerset 

(1524 - 1582)

Countess Margaret Beaufort (1437-1455)

Duchess Beatrice of Brittany

Duchess Camilla Parker Bowles of Cornwall 

(1947-)

Duchess Catherine Middleton 

of Cambridge 

(1982-)

Duchess Eleanor de Ros, Duchess of Somerset, Countess Wiltshire, de Beauchamp 

(1407 -1467)

Duchess Megan Markle 

of Sussex (1981-)

Duchess Sara Ferguson 

of York (1959-)

Duke Henry 

3rd Duke of Somerset Beaufort 

(1436 -1464)

Earl John de Lacy 

2nd Magna Carta Surety 

(1192-1240)

Earl Henry de Bohun 

Magna Carta Surety 

(1176-1220)

Earl Hugh le Bigod 

of Norfolk Magna Carta Surety 

(1182-1225)

Earl Alexander Graham 

Earl van Menteith 

(1470-1536)

Earl Gilbert de Clare 

5th Earl Magna Carta Surety 

(1180-1230)

Earl Henry 

2nd Earl of Worcester Somerset 

(1495 - 549)

Earl Henry Plantagenêt De Beaufort 

5th Earl Worcestor /Somerset 

(1577 -1646)

Earl Malise 

1st Earl of Menteith Graham 

(1407-1490)

Earl Patrick Graham 2nd Earl Menteith 

(1450-1482)

Earl Richard de Clare 

Magna Carta Surety 

(1130-1176)

Earl Roger le Bigod Norfolk 

(1144/1150-1221)

Earl Thomas 

2nd Earl of Kent De Holand 

(1350 - 1397)

Earl of Kent 

Duke of Surrey De Holand 

(1374-1400)

Earl Thomas Perche Beaufort (1405 -1432)

Earl Willem Douglas Earl van Angus 

(1532-1591)

Knight Charles

Knight of the Garter, Lord Herbert of Raglan, 1st Earl of Worcester, Lord Chamberlain of England Somerset Sir 

(1460 - 1526)

Knight William

 Knight of the Garter, 3rd Earl Worcester Somerset 

(1526 - 1589)

Lady Agnes (Dame) Mainwaring 

(1478-1560)

 married to Robert Needham

Lady AGNES EUBY 

(1415 - 1465)

Lady Agnes Radclyffe 

(1436 - 1505)

Lady Agnes Woodburne 

(1570-1616)

Lady Alice Elsie Bryan Needham (1656-1729)

Lady Alice De Harcourt, Baroness North 

(1412-1457)

Lady Alice Lady 

of Portsmouth, Hampshire Squire 

(1500 - 1560)

Lady Alice Needham

(1692-1741)

Lady Alice Wi

1446-1482)

Lady Alice, Lady Arundel, FitzAlan 

(1352-1416)

Lady Anna North 

(1529-1581)

Lady Anne Agnes 

Countess of Moray and Argyll (Keith) Douglas of Glenbervie 

(1503-1548)

Lady Anne Needham 

(1559-)

Lady Beatrice de Savoie 

Lady of Savoy, Countess of Maurienne & Provence 

(1198-1266)

Lady Beatrix Anne Ward 

(1478-1521)

Lady Blanche Lady Somerset (1583 -1649)

Lady Catherine (Katherine) Locke 

(1534-1568)

Lady Christian Somerset 

(1581 -1614)

Lady Christian Warcup, Baroness North 

(1459 -1515)

Lady Countess Christian

Lady Countess Worcester, North 

(1528 -1564)

Lady Countess Margaret 

Lady Countess of Yorkshire) deGascoigne 

(1451-1521)

Lady Egidia "Giles" de Douglas 

of Arbuthnott 

(1505-1546)

Lady Egidia Giles de Graham Countess of Angus 

(1536-1606)

Lady Eleanor (Elinour), Vicountess of Kilmorey Dutton 

(1596–1663)

Lady Eleanor Blaverhassett

(1507 -1557)

Lady Eleanor 

Lady of Cheshire Calveley 

(1540-1571)

Lady Eleanor Needham Byron (1627-1664)

Lady Eleanor Neville 

(1407-1472)

Lady Eleanor, Baroness D'Arcy of Knaith FitzHugh 

(1386-1457)

Lady Elizabeth Somerset 

(1687 )

Lady Elizabeth Chickle 

(1605-1665)

Lady Elizabeth Hastings / Countess of Worcester 

(1546 -1621)

Lady Elizabeth Holderness Darcy 

(1416-1461)

Lady Elizabeth Somerset 

(1493-1524)

Lady Elizabeth Somerset

(1497 -1545)

Lady Elizabeth Somerset 

(1687-)

Lady Emily Anstell 

(1498-1560)

Lady Frances Beaufort 

(1542-1592)

Lady Frances Aston 

(1533-1610) Married to Robert Needham (1533-1603)

Lady Frances Lucy Somerset (1423-1482)

Lady Giles Arbuthnott 

(1488-1546)

Lady Isabel DeHarington 

(1364-1402)

Lady Jane Tunstall 

(1471-1507)

Lady Jane Wilkinson 

(1520 -1577)

Lady Janet Douglas Baroness Erskine 

(1415-1490)

Lady Jean de Douglas 

(1570-) 

Lady Joan "Jane" Beaufor

(1434-1518)

Lady Joan (Wilcock) Wilcockes (1440-1512)

Lady Joan / Johanna Jane Wyman Gascoigne 

(1370-1426)

Lady Joan North 

(1498-1556)

Lady Joanna Locke 

(1560 -1580)

Lady Katherine Bledlowe 

(1490-)

Lady Katherine De Neville Heiress Baroness Strickland 

(1501-1557)

Lady Malda (Maud) 

Lady of Wighill Beaufort Lady 

(1448-1488)

Lady Margaret 

"The Poet's Muse" Holland, Lady of Somerset, Lady of the Garter, 1st Countess of Somerset, Countess of Kent, 

(1371 - 1439)

Lady Margaret Arundel Roos

(-1438)

Lady Margaret de Douglas 

(1553-1575)

Lady Margaret Harrington 

(1386-)

Lady Margery Conyers 

(1418-1469)

Lady Margery Lyhart de Naughton 

(1446 -1494)

Lady Margery Radclyffe 

(1455 - 1528)

Lady Mary Elizabeth Genesis Wilkinson 

(1470 - 1555)

Lady Maude FitzHugh 

(1425-1516)

Lady Olive Wright 

(1487-1560)

Lady Rose Locke Hickman

 (1535-1575)

Lady Thomasin Dutton Anderton 

(1567-1596)

Lord Archibald Douglas Van Glenbervie 

(1503-1570)

Lord Charles Needham 

(1636-1660)

Lord James

1st Lord Langley Radcliffe 

(1408 - 1477)

Lord John VI Lord Le Strange van Knockyn 

(1275-1312)

Lord Phillip

 6th Lord Darcy de Knayth Darcy 

(1398-1418)

Lord Ralph Bowes van Streatlam (1468-1512)

Lord Richard Bowes van Streatlam 

(1498-1558)

Lord Rogier I Le Strange van Knockyn 

(1301-1349)

Lord Rogier II Le Strange van Knockyn 

(1325-1382)

Lord Thomas 

9th Lord De Ros 

(1406-1430)

Lord Thomas Locke 

(1434-1507)

Lord Thomas Lord Ros Helmsley Ros 

(1427 -1464)

Lord William Fitzhugh

4th Baron Ravensworth 

(1389-1516)

Lord William d'Aubeney of Belvoir Magna Carta Surty

(-1236)

Marquess John Beaufort, Marquess of Dorset 

(1441 -1471)

Marquis  Dorset Edmund Plantagenet 

'Marquis of Dorset' 'Duke of Somerset' Beaufort 

(1404 -1455)

Marquis William Marquis 

of Thormond, Bryan 

(1655-1689)

Viscount Robert 

"5th Viscount of Kilmorey" Needham 

(1655-1668)

Viscount Robert Sir Needham, Viscount Kilmorey 

(1600-1653)

Viscount Sir Charles Thomas "4th Viscount of Kilmorey" Needham (1636-1660)

Viscount Thomas 

"6th Viscount of Kilmorey" Needham 

(1659-1687)

Free Masons

William R. Cross 

(1848-1911)

 Family that attended Oxford University

Henry Somerset 

Earl of Worchester (2nd) 

(1495-1549)

Gilbert Ironside 

(1588-1671) 

Entered Nov 14, 1650

Lord Thomas Locke 

(1434-1509)

Ralph Ironside 

(1559-1629)

Sir Miles Hobart 

(1479-1557)

Sir Thomas Hussey 

(1526-1570)

Family that attended Cambridge University

Edward North

(1496-1564)

Gilbert Ironside 

(1588-1671)   

Entered Jun 22, 1604

John Beaufort 

July 15, 1445

Nicholas Thurgood 

(1540-1618)

Peter Buckley 

(1583-1659)

Roger North 

(1530-1600)

Thomas North 

(1535-1601)

William Pulleyn 

(1520-1595)

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