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Notable Howland Descendants
What do Humphrey Bogart, George Bush and Dr. Spock have in common? Possibly you. Visit our notable Howland descendants gallery to learn who your famous cousins are.
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 any of the highlighted names below for more information about the descendant.
image of Charles Prentice Howland courtesy of Clark Art Museum
Maude Adams
(stage actress)
Alec Baldwin
(actor)
Stephen Baldwin
(actor)
Humphrey Bogart
(film actor)
Phillips Brooks
(wrote "O Little Town of Bethlehem")
George Herbert Walker Bush
(41st U.S. President)
George W. Bush
(43rd U.S. President)
John Ellis "Jeb" Bush
(Former Florida Governor)
Mary Chapin Carpenter
(singer, songwriter)
Florence Earle Coates
(poet)
James Marlan Coughtry
(baseball player)
Charles Prentice
Howland
(football coach and diplomat)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
(poet)
Nathaniel Gorham
(Continental Congress President)
Esther Allen Howland
(produced the first American Valentines)
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
(U.S. Senator)
Christopher Lloyd
(actor)
Sarah Heath Palin
(Former Governor of Alaska, Republican VP nominee)
Franklin Delano
Roosevelt
(32nd U.S. Preseident)
Lillian Russell
(stage & film actress)
Joseph Smith, Jr.
(founder, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
Dr. Benjamin Spock
(Pediatrician, author)
Justin Winsor
(writer, librarian, historian)
William H. Macy
(actor)
Dr. John Howland
(Johns Hopkins Hospital)
Jane Austin
19th century American Author
Eville Gorham
Environmental Scientist
Sam Ervin
United States Senator
Edgar Page Stites
James Thatcher
Doctor and Author
