"A Jersey boy from birth and the only child in a farming familiy, Clark did not receive much formal education. Yet, he made the most of his limited access to teachers and books and found work as a local surveyor and resident go-to guy for legal advice. Though apparently he was never admitted to the bar, Clark was known as the "Poor Man's Counselor" due to his willingness to help folks with land disputes, mortgages, and other small legal matters, often for no payment. . . .
Benedict Arnold
By 1774, he was firmly entrenched in the patriot movement, serving on the New Jersey committee of safety and attending various revolutionary conventions. After helping to draft the New Jersey constitution, he was elected as one of the five upstart men who made up the "new" New Jersey delegation that showed up in Philadelphia in June 1776." Excerpts from Kierman, Denise & Joseph D'Agnese. Signing Their Lives Away, Philadelphia, PA: Quirk Books, 2009. ISBN 978-1-5944-330-6
William Bradford, governor of Plymouth Colony
George Bush
George W. Bush
Hart Crane - poet
Thomas Dewey
Allen Dulles
John Foster Dulles
Alfred Fuller aka the Fuller Brush Man
Lillian Gish - actress - through Stoughton line
Ulysses Grant - through Richard Warren line and Lathrop line
Howard Hawkes - director - through Stoughton line
Oliver Wendell Holmes
John Kerry
Captain Richard King - King Ranch, Texas
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Dina Merrill - actress
Clement Moore - author of The Night Before Christmas
Agnes Morehead - actress
John Pierpont Morgan
Frederick Law Olmstead - landscape architect, Central Park, Biltmore Estate
Anthony Perkins - actor
Charles Post - of Post Toasties fame
Marjorie Post
George Romney
Mitt Romney
Franklin D. Roosevelt - through Richard Warren line & Lathrop
Adlai Stevenson
John Tyler, US President - may be kin
Harry Truman
Norman Rockwell
William Henry Seward - secretary of state - through Stoughton line
Joseph Smith
Dr. Benjamin Spock
Lewis Comfort Tiffany
Robert Penn Warren - author of All the King's Men
Tuesday Weld - actress
Eli Whitney
William Wrigley - chewing gum tycoon, Wrigley Field & the Cubs, I don't know if that part is something to brag about
Andrew Johnson - U.S. President
Revised 1/28/2019
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