COA
Intro Picture
 

Famous Cousins
of Merle G Ladd
 

 
 
 

Government

Rutherford B Hayes
19th President of USA
4th Cousin 5 Times Removed

Chester A Arthur
21st President of USA
7th Cousin 3 Times Removed

Dwight David Eisenhower 34th President of USA
7th Cousin 2 Times Removed

Gerald R Ford
38th President of USA
8th Cousin 1 Times Removed

George H W Bush
41st President of USA
8th Cousin


George W Bush
43rd President of USA
8th Cousin 1 Time Removed

Sir Winston L S Churchill
Prime Minister, Statesman
8th Cousin 2 Times Removed
Samuel Huntington
President of Continental Congress
3rd Cousin 7 Times Removed
Lafayette Sabin Foster
Politician, Lawyer, Judge
3rd Cousin 5 Times Removed
Melville Weston Fuller
8th Chief Justice of US
6th Cousin 4 Times Removed

Byron White
Supreme Court Justice
8th Cousin 1 Time Removed
David Hackett Souter
Supreme Court Justice
7th Cousin 1 Time Removed
Lucy Ware Webb Hayes
First Lady
6th Cousin 4 Times Removed
Frances Folsom Cleveland
First Lady
7th Cousin 2 times Removed
Ida Saxton McKinley
First Lady
7th Cousin 3 Times Removed

Edith K Carow Roosevelt
First Lady
7th Cousin 3 Times Removed
Ellen L Axson Wilson
First Lady
7th Cousin 2 Times Removed
Florence Kling Harding
 First Lady
 5th Cousin 4 Times Removed
Lou Henry Hoover
First Lady
7th Cousin 4 Times Removed
Mamie D Eisenhower
First Lady
9th Cousin
Sarah Heath Palin
Alaska Governor
V P Candidate

7th Cousin 3 Times Removed
 

Arts

Laura Ingalls Wilder
American Author
5th Cousin 2 Times Removed
Edgar Allan Poe
American Poet
4th Cousin, 4 Times Removed
Jonathan Swift
Anglo-Irish Priest, Writer
3rd Cousin, 10 Times Removed
Louisa May Alcott
American Novelist
4th Cousin, 4 Times Removed
O. Henry
(William Sydney Porter)

American Writer
7th Cousin, 3 Times Removed

Ralph Waldo Emerson
American Essayist, Poet
5th Cousin, 5 Times Removed
Robert Frost
American Poet
7th Cousin, 2 Times Removed
T. S. Eliot
American Born
British Poet

8th Cousin, 2 Times Removed
Walt Whitman
American Poet
6th Cousin, 5 Times Removed
Winslow Homer
American Painter
6th Cousin, 4 Times Removed

Norman Rockwell
Illustrator and Painter
7th Cousin, 3 Times Removed
Georgia Totto OKeeffe
American Painter
9th Cousin 2 Times Removed
Katharine Hepburn
Actress
8th Cousin, 2 Times Removed
Spencer Tracy
Actor
9th Cousin
Ruth Elizabeth (Bette) Davis
Actress
8th Cousin, 2 Times Removed

   
Lucille Desiree Ball
Actress and Comedian
9th Cousin, 1 Times Removed
Eldred Gregory Peck
Actor
8th Cousin, 1 Times Removed
James Dean
Actor
10th Cousin
   
 

Historical

Edwin Hubble
American Astronomer
6th Cousin, 3 Times Removed
James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok
Gunfighter and Law Man
5th Cousin, 4 Times Removed
Herbert Arthur Philbrick
U.S. Counterintelligence Agent for the FBI
7th Cousin, 2 Times Removed
William Crapo Durant
Founder of
General Motors

6th Cousin, 3 Times Removed
Mary Morse Baker Eddy
Religious Leader
6th Cousin, 3 Times Removed

     
John Ledyard
American Explorer
4th Cousin, 7 Times Removed
Joseph Smith Jr
Founder: Latter Day Saint Movement
6th Cousin, 5 Times Removed
Stephen Hopkins
Mayflower Passenger
10th Great Grandfather 
Giles Hopkins
Mayflower Passenger
9th Great Grandfather
Edward Fuller
Mayflower Passenger
10th Great Grandfather

Thomas Edward
"Black Jack" Ketchum

American Outlaw
9th Cousin 3 Times Removed
George Henry Corliss
 American Inventor, Industrialist
5th Cousin 4 Times Removed
Mary Edwards Walker
Surgeon, Congressional Medal of Honor
8th Cousin 4 Times Removed
Daniel Baird Wesson
Industrialist, Smith and Wesson Firearms
8th Cousin 5 Times Removed
Eli Whitney
American Inventor
7th Cousin 6 Times Removed

     
Wilber and Orville Wright
Inventors, First in Flight
8th Cousin 2 Times Removed
John Moses Browning
American Firearms Designer
6th Cousin 3 Times Removed