Saturday, April 19, 2025

Famous Descendants of Henry Howland (1565-1635)

The following famous people share our ancestor with us:

John Howland (Mayflower passenger)

Nathaniel Gorham (Signer of the U.S. Constitution)

U.S. Vice President Hannibal Hamlin

Governor Jonathan Worth of North Carolina

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (poet)

Ralph Waldo Emerson (poet)

Governor Henry Crapo of Michigan

U.S. Vice President Levi P. Morton

Governor James Y. Smith of Rhode Island

Horace Gray (U.S. Supreme Court Justice)

Henry H. Rogers (oil tycoon)

Mark Hopkins Jr. (Central Pacific Railroad)

Governor Adelbert Ames of Mississippi

Governor Henry H. Sibley of Minnesota

U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt

O. Henry (author)

Governor Chase Clark of Idaho

Alonzo Clark (Smithsonian)

U.S. President Richard M. Nixon

Humphrey Bogart (actor)

U.S. First Lady Edith Roosevelt

Bing Crosby (singer/actor)

William Durant (General Motors and Frigidaire)

U.S. Vice President James Sherman

Governor Samuel Goddard of Arizona

Governor Eugene Foss of Massachusetts

Governor Owen Brewster of Maine

Governor Curtis Guild of Massachusetts

Sir Winston Churchill (UK Prime Minister)

Marilyn Monroe (actress)

John Steinbeck (author)

Johnny Carson (television host)

Meryl Streep (actress)

Cecil B. DeMille (film director)

Governor Leverett Saltonstall of Massachusetts

U.S. Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan

Ezra Pound (poet/critic)

Governor George H. Earle of Pennsylvania

Governor Thomas Kean of New Jersey

U.S. Secretary of Commerce Harry Hopkins

U.S. President Gerald R. Ford

John Carradine (actor)

Norman Rockwell (artist)

Chevy Chase (comedian)

John Lithgow (actor)

Harry Chapin (singer/songwriter)

Governor Bill Weld of Massachusetts

John Paul Stevens (U.S. Supreme Court Justice)

Governor Gary Herbert of Utah

Geena Davis (actress)

U.S. Senator Henry J. Heinz of Pennsylvania

Hal Holbrook (actor)

Richard Chamberlain (actor)

Governor Meldrim Thomson Jr. of New Hampshire

U.S. C.I.A. Director Porter Goss

Glenn Close (actress)

Alec Baldwin (actor)

David Carradine (actor)

Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska

Thomas J. Watson (IBM)

James Taylor (singer/songwriter)

Matt Bomer (actor)

U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth of Illinois

U.S. First Lady Jill Biden

Penn Jillette (magician)

Jon Meacham (historian)

Governor Jim Douglas of Vermont

U.S. President George H. W. Bush

U.S. President George W. Bush

John Stamos (actor)

Timothy Hutton (actor)

Ben Jealous (NAACP)

Taylor Lautner (actor)

Bill Gates (Microsoft)

Governor Jeb Bush of Florida

Governor Kate Brown of Oregon

Source: Famous Kin of Henry Howland

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