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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"

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Diana Frances Spencer, H.R.H. The Princess of Wales (1961-1997)*
A beautiful young woman, and one of the most beloved people in history.
She died in a tragic automobile accident in France. However, the legacy of her Strong heritage lives on though her two sons; Prince William Arthur Philip Louis of Wales (1982-), heir to the throne of England, and Prince Henry Charles Albert David of Wales (1984-) Lady Diana was a 9th great - granddaughter of Elder John.

* References and Relationships
Descendants of John Strong can claim almost 100 notable kin from the
more than 250 whose lines of ascendancy are presented in Gary Boyd
Roberts' "The New England Ancestry of H.R.H. The Princess of Wales"

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.

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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. 

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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Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
(1884-1962)
United Nations diplomat, humanitarian,
wife of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt

  • 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-)

Harry S Truman (1884-1972), 33rd President of the United States
As President, Harry Truman made some of the most crucial decisions in history 

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