please send further messages concerning strong to els1969ham@hotmail.com this was just a temporary address. thanks, nedinne -----Original Message----- From: Caroline Wiedmer <strongdar@freesurf.ch> To: STRONG-L@rootsweb.com <STRONG-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 7:07 AM Subject: Re: Famous Descendants of Elder John Strong >Dear Marsha, > >It's with a bit of trepidation that I ask this perhaps naive question: which >are the archives that list the lines of Diana Spencer, etc? I'm relatively >new at this (descend from Elder John's son Thomas) and find time to indulge >only sporadically. > >Thanks > >Carol Wiedmer >---------- >>Von: "C M Strong" <cm_strong@msn.com> >>An: STRONG-L@rootsweb.com >>Betreff: Famous Descendants of Elder John Strong >>Datum: Die, 28. Aug 2001 17:43 >> > >>Hello all! >> >>Yes, the list below is exactly what I was speaking of -- but what I was >hoping >>to find out now is just HOW each of these people descend from Elder John, >not >>just that they do! In the archives, we have the direct lines of Diana >Spencer, >>Bess Wallace Truman and Margaret Truman, Sarah Delano and FDR, and the >>Revolutionary Patriot Nathan Hale. Can anyone post any others? >> >>Thanks! >>Marsha >> >>--------------------------------------------------------- >> >>It is in the book "Search for the Passengers of the Mary & John 1630", >>volume 1. >> >>Famous Descendants of Elder John Strong >>*Following are some of the notable descendants of Elder John Strong >>(1610-1699), through his great-great-great grandson, Dr. Joseph Strong >>(1770-1812), who is also the ancestor of Lady Diana, Princess of Wales. >All >>of these people are cousins to every descendant of John Strong. >> >>1. Dean Acheson (1893-1897) U.S. Secretary of State under Truman >>2. John Adams Jr. (1735-1826) Second U.S. President >>3. John Quince Adams (1787-1848) Sixth U.S. President. >>4. Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) Novelist >>5. Horatio Alger Jr. (1834-1899) Novelist >>6. Ethan Allen (1738-1789) Revolutionary soldier >>7. Susan Brownell Anthony (1820-1906) Reformer & suffragette >>8. Lyman Frank Baum (1856-1919) Author of The Wonderful Wizard of OZ >>9. Henry Ward Beecher (1775-1863) Preacher and abolitionist >>10. Grover Cleveland (1837-1908) Twice U.S. President (22nd & 24th) >>11. Humphrey Bogart (1899-1957) Actor >>12. Schuyler Colfax Jr. (1823-1885) U.S. Vice-President under Grant >>13. Samuel Colt (1814-1862) Firearms manufacturer. Inventor of the "Colt >45" >>14. Charles Gates Dawes (1872-1933) U.S. Vice-President under Coolidge >>15. Calvin Coolidge, Jr. (1872-1933) The 30th. U.S. President >>16. George Dewey (1873-1917) Admiral who captured Manila >>17. Thomas Dewey (1902-1971) Governo of New York & Presidential candidate >>18. Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) Poetess >>19. John Foster Dulles (1888-1959) U.S. Secretary of State under Eisenhower >>20. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) Philosopher, Essayist, & poet >>21. Millard Fillmore (1800-1874) Thirteenth U.S. President >>22. George Gallop (1901- )Pollster >>23. Erle Stanley Gardner (1889-1897) Detective novelist >>24. Dorothy Gish (1898-1968) Actress >>25. Lillian Gish (1896- ) Actress >>26. Edward Everett Hale (1822-1909) Author of "Man Without A Country" >>27. Nathan Hale (1755-1776) Revolutionary Hero >>28. Rutherford B. Hayes (1822-1893) Ninteenth U.S. President >>29. Christian Herter (1895-1967) U.S. Secretary of State under Eisenhower >>30. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr (1841-1967) Jurist >>31. Lamar Hunt (1932- ) Oilman & billionaire >>32. Donald L. Jacobus (1887-1970) Genealogist >>33. Spencer Woolley Kimball (1895- ) President of Morman Church sine >>1973 >>34. Henry Cabot Lodge II (1902- ) Vice-President candidate >>35. Clare Boothe Luce (1903- ) Playwright & Congresswoman >>36. Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982) Poet &Playwright >>37. John Phillips Marquand II (1893-1960) Novelist >>38. George McCleeland (1826-1885) Union General. Presidential Candidate. >>39. Margaret Mead (1901-1978) Anthropolgist >>40. Dwight Lyman Moody (1837-1899) Founder of the Moody Bible Institute >>41. John Pierpont Morgan (1867-1943) Banker >>42. Levi Parsons Morton (1824-1920) U.S. Vice-President under Harrison. >>43. Frederick Olmsted (1822-1920) Designer of Central Park, New York City >>44. Anthony Perkins (1932- ) Actor >>45. William Sydney Porter (O. Henry) (1862-1910) Short Story Writer >>46. Lee Remick (1935- )Actress >>47. John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937) Oil tycoon & philanthropist >>48. Nelson Rockefeller (1908-1978) U.S. Vice-President under Gerald Ford >>49. David Rockefeller (1915- )Financier >>50. George Romney (1907- ) President of American Motors & Governor of >>Michigan >>51. Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) Thirty-second U.S. President >>52. Harriett Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) Abolitionist & Authoress of "Uncle >>Tom's Cabin >>53. Lowell Thomas (1892-1981) Radio-TV Commentator & Travel Author >>54. Bess Wallace ( -1982) Wife of President Harry Truman >>55. Gloria Vanderbuilt ( ) Socialite >>56. Noah Webster, Jr (1758-1843) Writer of Webster's Dictionary >>57. Orson Welles (1915- ) Actor & Producer >>58. Paul Dudley White (1886-1973) Physician & Heart Specialist >>59. Wilbur Wright (1867-1912) Co-inventor of the airplane >>60. Orville Wright (1871-1948) Co-inventor of the airplane >> >> >>==== STRONG Mailing List ==== >>======================================================== >>Descendants of Alexander Strange, immigrant from Devon, >>England, to New Kent County, VA, including the Ancestry >>of John Richard Mayer, d. 1998, San Francisco, CA. >>http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/m/a/y/John-R-Mayer >>========================================================== >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > >==== STRONG Mailing List ==== >======================================================== >Descendants of Alexander Strange, immigrant from Devon, >England, to New Kent County, VA, including the Ancestry >of John Richard Mayer, d. 1998, San Francisco, CA. >http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/m/a/y/John-R-Mayer >========================================================== > > > > > > > > > > > > > >