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By Edward Barnard, on May 21st, 2009
Spouses of Descendants of Elizabeth Chard and Aaron Cooke:
- John David Drummond (1907- ), 17th Earl of Perth, British Colonial Secretary (1957-1962)
- John Marshall Harlan II (1899-1971), U.S. Supreme Court justice (1955-1971)
- Abbott Lawrence Lowell (1856-1943), president of Harvard University
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), poet
- Joseph Smith (1805 - 1844), American prophet whose “revealed” writings, along with the Bible, provide the theological foundation of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons)
- Josiah Royce (1855-1916), idealist philosopher and educator
- Yves Tanguy (1900-1955), French-born U.S. surrealistic painter
- Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989), poet, novelist, critic, and first poet laureate in U.S.
By Edward Barnard, on May 21st, 2009
Spouses of Descendants of Elizabeth Chard and Aaron Cooke
George Stanley McGovern (1922-), U.S. Senator from South Dakota, and Democratic presidential candidate in 1972
By Edward Barnard, on May 21st, 2009
Spouses of Descendants of Elizabeth Chard and Aaron Cooke
Brigham Young (1801-1877), Mormon leader and colonizer of Utah
By Edward Barnard, on May 21st, 2009
Descendants of Elizabeth Chard and Aaron Cooke
Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822-1893), 19th U.S. President
“He serves his party best who serves the country best.”
By Edward Barnard, on May 21st, 2009
Descendants of Elizabeth Chard and Aaron Cooke
Steven Grover Cleveland (1837-1908), 22nd and 24th U.S. President
By Edward Barnard, on May 21st, 2009
Descendants of Elizabeth Chard and Aaron Cooke:
- Arthur Twining Hadley (1856-1930), economist and president of Yale University (1899-1921)
- Henry Lee Higginson (1834-1919), banker, founder of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and Harvard benefactor
- Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911), reformer, essayist, Colonel of the 1st black Union regiment
- John Phillips Marquand II (1893-1960), novelist
- William Sydney Porter (”O. Henry”) (1862-1910), short story writer
- William Williams (1731-1811), signer of the Declaration of Independence
- Eliphalet Remington, Jr. (1793 - 1861), inventor and firearms manufacturer
- Frederic Sackrider Remington (1861-1909), painter, illustrator, and sculptor noted for his realistic portrayal of life in the American West
- Noah Webster, Jr. (1758-1843), lexicographer and compiler of American Dictionary of the English Language
By Edward Barnard, on May 21st, 2009
Spouses of Descendants of John Strong and Abigail Ford
Harry S Truman (1884-1972), 33rd President of the United States
As President, Harry Truman made some of the most crucial decisions in history
By Edward Barnard, on May 21st, 2009
Spouses of Descendants of John Strong and Abigail Ford:
- Lewis Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt (1863-1922), British colonial secretary (1910-1915)
- John Loudon McAdam (1756-1836), British road engineer who invented process of making a roadway of broken stone (macadamization)
- Benjamin Peirce (1809-1880), mathematician and astronomer
- Thomas Fortune Ryan (1851-1928), financier and traction magnate
- Joseph Story (1779-1845), Harvard law professor and associate justice of U.S. Supreme Court(1811-1845)
- Jack Isadore Straus (1900-), president and chief executive officer, Macy’s Department Store
- Henry Cabot Lodge (1850-1924), Republican U.S. senator (1893-1924) who led the successful congressional opposition to the U.S. participation in the League of Nations following World War I
- Thorstein Bunde Veblen (1857-1929), economist and social theorist
- Charles Philip Arthur George, Prince of Wales (1948-)
By Edward Barnard, on May 21st, 2009
Spouses of Descendants of John Strong and Abigail Ford
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)
United Nations diplomat, humanitarian, wife of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
By Edward Barnard, on May 21st, 2009
 Spouses of Descendants of John Strong and Abigail Ford
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (”Mark Twain”) (1835-1910)
famed humorist and writer of the 19th century.
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