Distinguished Mayflower Descendants

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Distinguished Mayflower Descendants

It is reported that currently there are over 10 million living descendants of the 51 Mayflower Pilgrims who had children. Are you one of them? Click on "Join Us" above to join. Click on any of the highlighted names below for more information about the descendant. Note: Pages will open in a new browser window. External sites are not endorsed by the SMDPA.

John Adams (2nd U.S. President) — John Alden & William Mullins	John Quincy Adams (6th U.S. President) — John Alden & William Mullins	Maude Adams (stage actress) — John Howland
Alec Baldwin (actor) — John Howland	Stephen Baldwin (actor) — John Howland	Humphrey Bogart (film actor) — John Howland
Marie Corinne "Lindy" Morrison Claiborne Boggs (US Ambassador to the Vatican, Congresswoman) — William Brewster	Phillips Brooks (wrote "O Little Town of Bethlehem") — John Howland	William Cullen Bryant (poet) — John Alden & William Mullins
George Herbert Walker Bush (41th U.S. President) — John Howland, Francis Cooke and John Tilley	George W. Bush (43th U.S. President) — John Howland, Francis Cooke, John Tilley	John Ellis "Jeb" Bush (Former Florida Governor) — John Howland, Francis Cooke, John Tilley
Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby (Singer, actor) — William Brewster	Bob Crosby (Big Band Leader, Bing's Brother) — William Brewster	Charles Curtis (Vice President under Herbert Hoover) — Peter Browne
George Eastman (Founder of Eastman/Kodak) — William Bradford	Clint Eastwood (actor) — William Bradford	Ralph Waldo Emerson (poet) — John Howland & John Tilley
James A. Garfield (20th U.S. President) — John Billington	Richard Gere (actor) — Samuel Fuller, Samuel Eaton, Francis Eaton, Francis Cooke, John Soule, George Soule	Nathaniel Gorham (Continental Congress President) — John Howland
Ulysses S. Grant (U.S. General & 18th President) — Richard Warren	Hugh Hefner (founder of Playboy Magazine) — William Bradford	Esther Allen Howland (produced the first American Valentines) — John Howland
Josiah Granville Leach (originator of Flag Day, June 14th) — Francis Cooke	Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (U.S. Senator) — John Howland	Christopher Lloyd (actor) — John Howland
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (poet) — John Howland	George B. McClellan (U.S. General , Civil War) — William Bradford	Marilyn Monroe (actress) — John Alden & William Mullins
Anna Mary Robertson "Grandma" Moses (20th century American primitive painter) — Francis Cooke	Sarah Heath Palin (Former Governor of Alaska, Republican vice presidential nominee) — John Tilley, John Howland, Stephen Hopkins, Governor William Brewster, Richard Warren	Dan Quayle (U.S. Senator & Vice President) — Myles Standish, John Alden & William Mullins
Christopher Reeve (actor) — William Bradford	Cokie Roberts (Political Analyst, Journalist, Author) — Elder William Brewster	Franklin Delano Roosevelt (32nd U.S. President) — Isaac Allerton, Francis Cooke, John Howland, Degory Priest, John Tilley, Richard Warren
Lillian Russell (stage & film actress) — John Howland	Deborah Samson (took part in Revolutionary War battles disguised as a man) — William Bradford, Myles Standish, John Alden, and William Mullins	Alan B. Shepard, Jr. (first American in space and fifth man to walk on the moon) — Richard Warren
Grace Slick (lead singer of rock band Jefferson Airplane) — William White	Joseph Smith, Jr. (founder, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) — John Howland	Dr. Benjamin Spock (Pediatrician, author) — John Howland
Zachary Taylor (12th U.S. President) — William Brewster & Isaac Allerton	John Trumbull (painter of Revolutionary War scenes, soldier and aide to General Washington) — John Alden	Dick Van Dyke (comedian, actor) — Peter Browne, Francis Cooke, George Soule, Myles Standish and John Alden
Jerry Van Dyke (comedian, actor) — Peter Browne, Francis Cooke, George Soule, Myles Standish and John Alden	James Mitchell Varnum (Brigadier General, Continental Army) — Francis Cooke	Noah Webster (author of the first American dictionary) — William Bradford
Orson Wells (stage & film actor, director, producer) — John Alden, Francis Cooke, and Richard Warren	Leonard Wood (U.S. General, colonial administrator and surgeon; commander of "Rough Riders") — Francis Cooke, Stephen Hopkins & Richard Warren* * GSMD Governor General 1915-1921

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Constance Flynn Lagerman, 90, of Bryn Mawr, a former board member of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Ardmore, died Saturday, Sept. 29, at her home.

Mrs. Lagerman was on the church's executive committee for more than five decades and served as a reader and Sunday school teacher, her son, Richard, said.

Born in Haverford, she attended what was then Harcum Junior College.