Celebrities Descended From Blaisdell Ancestors

Celebrities Descended from Ancestors of Elijah Whittier Blaisdell, Jr.

Blaisdell Line
From Ralph Blaisdell and Elizabeth Parker:
The King Sisters
Roy Gordon
Tom Tryon
James Arness
Peter Graves

From his son, Henry Blaisdell and Mary Haddon:
George Grant Blaisdell
Lester Pearson
Marjorie Husted
Barbara Payton
Sandra Day O’Connor
Scott Brown

From his grandson, Jonathan Blaisdell and Hannah Jameson:
Robert Goddard

From his great-grandson, Enoch Blaisdell and Mary Satterlee:
Charles Egerton Osgood

From his great-great grandson, Elijah Blaisdell and Mary Sargent:
Rev. James A. Blaisdell

From his great, great, great, great grandson, Elijah Whittier Blaisdell, Sr. and Ann Maria Deacon:
Elizabeth Linington

From Hannah Jameson’s parents, John Jameson and Esther Martin:
Dick Cheney
William Colby

From Esther Martin’s parents, George Martin and Susannah North:
Chester A. Arthur
Charles Alfred Pillsbury
Charles Dana Gibson
Burl Ives
Allen Drury
Weaver Adams
Charles Gibson
Jane Bonham Carter
Steve Fossett
Matthew Modine

Farnum Line
From Ralph Farnum and Alice ?:
Samuel Osgood
Rutherford B. Hayes
Henry Varnum Poor
General Leonard Wood
Hiram Bingham III
Hiram Bingham IV
John Steinbeck
Grant Mitchell
Lurene Tuttle
Barbara Ruick
James Schlesinger
George Hamilton
Howard McNear
Alan Shepard
Stewart Brand
Matthew Perry

From their son, Ralph Farnum and Elizabeth Holt:
Ted Stevens
Dick and Tommy Smothers
James Brolin
Betsy Russell

From their grandson, Ralph Farnum and Sarah Sterling:
Mary Baker Eddy
William Hewlett
Stephen Collins


Perkins Line
From John Perkins and Judith Gater:
Jane Appleton Pierce
Millard Fillmore
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Robert Wood Johnson
Lillian Russell
Endicott Peabody
Ransom Olds
Hiram Bingham III
Calvin Coolidge
Charles Coburn
H. P. Lovecraft
Thornton Wilder
George Grant Blaisdell
Melville Bell Grosvenor
Robert Goddard
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Martha Graham
Kay Sage
James Watson
e.e.cummings
Hiram Bingham IV
Tennessee Williams
Humphrey Bogart
Bette Davis
Cpt. Charles Butler McVay III
Robert Ryan
Anthony Perkins
Montgomery Clift
Louis Auchincloss
David Bulkeley Langmuir
James Coburn
Ray Bradbury
Alan Shepard
Bill Walton
Sam Waterston
Christopher Reeve
Edie Sedgwick
Kyra Sedgwick
John Lithgow
Suzy Chaffee
Brad Hall
Stephen King
Kurt Russell
Betsy Russell
Steve Fossett
Bill Gates
Will Lyman
Cary Elwes
Halle Berry
Matthew Modine
Oliver Platt
Jeff Corwin
Liv Tyler

From his father, Henry Perkins and Elizabeth Sawbridge:
Herbert Henry Dow
Robert Frost

From his grandfather, Thomas Perkins and Alice Kebble:
Viggo Mortensen

From their daughter, Elizabeth Perkins and William Sargent. Sr.:
Charles Alfred Pillsbury
William A. Paine
John Steinbeck
Edna St. Vincent Millay
John Archibald Wheeler
James Schlesinger
Allen Drury
Stewart Brand
Jack Kemp
Richard Gere

From his uncle, Isaac Perkins, Sr. and Alice ?:
Mabelle Gilman
James Dean
Richard Nixon
Kelsey Grammar
Stephen King
Margaux and Mariel Hemingway

From Isaac’s son, Benjamin Perkins and Mary Wyeth:
Hiram Bingham III
Hiram Bingham IV

From Isaac’s granddaughter, Mary Perkins and John Folsom:
Gen. Nathaniel Folsom
Frances Folsom Cleveland
Robert Peary


Gilman Line
From Edward Gilman and Mary Clark:
Gen. Nathaniel Folsom
Nicholas Gilman
Sarah Orne Jewett
Milton Bradley
Mabelle Gilman
Simon Newcomb
Tennessee Williams
Gen. Robin Olds
William Shockley
Thornton Wilder
Gerald Ford
David Souter
Sandra Day O’Connor
Julia Child
Edie Sedgwick
Kelsey Grammar
George Hamilton
Margaux and Mariel Hemingway
Steve Fossett
Gene Roddenberry
Hal Holbrook
James Brolin
Alexandra Wentworth Stephanopoulis
Jon Huntsman, Jr.

From her parents, John Clark and Elizabeth Hopson:
William Bonney
Hiram Bingham III
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Robert Lansing
Alec Baldwin
Sarah Palin

From his parents, Edward Gilman and Mary Hawes:
John Hancock
Nathaniel Gorham
Abraham Lincoln
Lillian Russell
Orville and Wilbur Wright
Ezra Pound
Amelia Earhart
Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith
George H. W. Bush
George W. Bush
Glenn Close
Jack Kemp
Stacy Keach
Kurt Russell
Pat Roberts
Brooke Adams
Timothy Geithner

Colby Line
From Anthony Colby and Susannah Haddon:
Joseph Smith
Chester A. Arthur
Charles Alfred Pillsbury
William A. Paine
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Cpt. Charles Butler McVay III
Robert Ryan
George Grant Blaisdell
Conchita Cintron
Marjorie Husted
John Archibald Wheeler
William Colby
Allen Drury
Robert Lansing
Dick Cheney
Jack Kemp
Tammy Grimes
Dennis Hopper
James Brolin
Stewart Brand
Richard Gere
Will Lyman
David Hyde Pierce
Scott Brown

From his daughter, Mary Colby and William Sargent:
Weaver Adams

Thayer Line
From Cecily Thayer and James Davis:
Conrad Aiken
Calvin Coolidge
Jean Arthur
Bette Davis
John Carradine
Robert Taylor
Orson Welles
George Hamilton
Dick and Joyce van Patten
Orson Bean
Paul Giamatti
James Brolin

From her grandparents, John Thayer and Mary Roberts:
Charles Coburn
Elizabeth Bishop
Joel McCrea
Frank Gannett
Marion Zimmer Bradley
Kurt Russell
Alexandra von Moltke Isles

From her great-grandparents, John Thayer and Constance Holdbrooke:
James Garfield
Victoria Woodhull
Lillian Russell
William A. Paine
Samuel Edward Dean
Samuel Curtis Johnson
T. S. Eliot
Sinclair Lewis
Erle Stanley Gardner
Franklin Roosevelt
Count Carl Gustav von Rosen
Fay Wray
Ruth Gordon
Betty Grable
Jane Wyman
Lucille Ball
Robert Ryan
Marjorie Husted
Robert Aldrich
Walter Cronkite
Charles Gibson
Brooke Hayward
Jane Fonda
Peter Fonda
Suzy Chaffee
George H. W. Bush
Michael Bennet
Meg Whitman
Stephen Collins
Kyra Sedgwick
Matthew Perry
Will Lyman
Alexandra Wentworth Stephanopoulis
Michelle Williams