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Most of this information was submitted by Dr.Walther M. Barnard, Professor, Dept. of Geosciences, SUNY, Fredonia, NY.
He is a 7th great grandson of John Strong & Abigail Ford through their daughter Sarah.
The notable kin are here named and briefly identified, but limitations of space preclude presentation of the actual lines
of ascendancy, most of which are given in the publications cited at the conclusion of this list.
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Descendants of John Strong and Margery Dean
Mark Hopkins (1802-1887), educator and president of Williams College (1836-1872)
- Amos Adams Lawrence (1814-1886), merchant, philanthropist, founder of Lawrence University, treasurer
of the Emigrant Aid Society
Spouses of Descendants of John Strong and Margery Dean
- Ruth Fulton Benedict (1887-1948), anthropologist
- Count Greve Folke Bernadotte (1895-1948), diplomat, United Nations mediator in Palestine in 1948, and
grandson of Oscar II, King of Sweden
- David Dudley Field (1805-1894), lawyer and law reformer
- Byron Raymond White (1917-), associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1962-1993)
Descendants of John Strong and Abigail Ford
- 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)
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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.
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- 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
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