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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

Spouses of Descendants of John Strong and Abigail Ford

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-)

Spouses of Descendants of John Strong and Abigail Ford

Spouses of Descendants of John Strong and Abigail Ford

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (“Mark Twain”) (1835-1910)

famed humorist and writer of the 19th century.

Glenn Close

Glenn Close was born on March 19, 1947 in Greenwich, Connecticut.  Her acting career began in the theater as she had roles in plays like The Real Thing and Sunset Boulevard. Her movie career took off when she took the role of a psychotic mistress in the film Fatal Attraction in 1987. Films like Dangerous Liasons, Hamlet, 101 Dalmations and the sequel 102 Dalmations would follow.

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

Christa Brooke Camille Shields (1965-)

Brook Shields’ fame began early as model and actress in great demand and spread world wide. Today she is one of the most sought after actresses in Hollywood, and has starred in many movie and TV roles.

She is a 10th generation great – granddaughter of Elder John Strong.

More Kinships:

• John Davison Rockefeller IV (1937-), governor of West Virginia
• Joseph Wright Alsop V (1910-1989) and Stewart Johonnot Oliver Alsop (1914-1974), newspaper columnists and political analysts
• Donald Lines Jacobus (1887-1970), genealogist
• Henry Cabot Lodge II (1902-1985), U.S. senator and diplomat, and candidate for U.S. vice presidency in 1960
• Guy Lowell (1870-1927), architect
• John Pierpont (“J. P.”) Morgan, Sr. (1837-1913), banker, financier and industrial organizer, art and book collector, and John Pierpont Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), banker and financier
• Levi Parsons Morton (1824-1920), congressman, diplomat, governor of New York, and U.S. vice president under Benjamin Harrison
• George Sheldon (1818 – 1916), representative to General court; Mass. senator; author of “History of Deerfield”

Captain Nathan Hale (1755-1776), Revolutionary War martyr The American revolution martyr who made these words famous: “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.” Nathan Hale was a 3rd great – grandson of Elder John Strong.

• Jesse Root (1736-1822), delegate to Continental Congress (1778-1783)
  and chief justice of Connecticut (1796-1807)
• Abraham Baldwin (1754-1807), member of Continental Congress, signer of the U.S. Constitution, and founder and first president of Franklin College (now University of Georgia)
• Edward Everett Hale (1822-1909), Unitarian clergyman and writer best known for his book “The Man Without a Country”
• Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard (1809-1889), U.S. educator and for nearly 25 years president of Columbia College (Barnard College is named for him)
• Walter Chauncey Camp (1859-1925), Yale football coach and promoter of American football
• James Dwight Dana (1813-1895), geologist and mineralogist
• Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840-1924), Boston art collector and social leader, builder of Fenway Court
• Dorothy Elizabeth Gish (1898-1968) and Lillian Diana Gish (1893-1993),actresses and motion-picture pioneers

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), 32nd U.S. president One of our nation’s most famous Presidents, Franklin D. Roosevelt led the Nation through the Great Depression and World War II.