More of Our Ancestors who laid a good foundation…
- Caleb Strong (1745–1819), governor of Massachusetts and one of state’s first U.S. senators
- Walter Loomis Newberry (1805–1868), merchant, banker, philanthropist, founder of the Newberry Library in Chicago
- Frederick Law Olmsted (1822–1903), landscape architect and author, designer of Central Park in New York City
- Talcott Parsons (1902–1979), sociologist and scholar
- Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914), pragmatist philosopher
- William Lyon Phelps (1865–1943), literary critic and teacher
- Philip Winston Pillsbury (1903-), president and chairman of the Board, Pillsbury (Flour) Co.
- Lowell Jackson Thomas (1892–1981), travel author and radio and television commentator
- Curtis Dwight Wilbur, Secretary of Navy under President Coolidge and chief justice of the California supreme court, and
- Ray Lyman Wilbur (1879–1949), U.S. Secretary of the Interior and president of Stanford University