please send all messages concerning strong to els1969ham@hotmail.com this was just a temporary address. thanks, nedinne -----Original Message----- From: C M Strong <cm_strong@msn.com> To: STRONG-L@rootsweb.com <STRONG-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 10:51 AM Subject: Famous Descendants of Elder John Strong >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 >========================================================== > > > > > > > > > > > > > >