Some Notable Bissell Cousins I - Z
J
Jacobus, Donald -- Genealogist
Jones, Anson -- Fourth President of the Republic of Texas
K
Keep, Nathan Cooley -- Founder of Harvard Dental School
Kellogg, Frank B. -- Secretary of State, Nobel Prize winner
L
Lindbergh, Anne M. -- Author, explorer
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth -- Poet
Loomis, Alfred Lee -- Inventor of LORAN radar
M
Mather, Cotton -- Minister
Mather, Increase -- Minister
Merrill, Charles E. -- Founder, Merrill Lynch
Morey, Samuel -- Inventor, steam engine
Morton, Levi -- 22nd Vice President
N
Norris
O
Olcott, Chauncey -- Actor, Tenor and Songwriter, Composer of "My Wild Irish Rose"
Olmstead, Frederick Law -- Landscape Architect
Otis, James, Jr. -- Founding Father, Lawyer
Otis, Mercy -- Author, historian
P
Phelps, Anson Greene -- Merchant, Philosopher
Pinchot, Gifford -- Forester, first Chief of U.S. Forest Service
Plimpton, George -- Journalist
Porter, William S. (O. Henry) -- Author
Price, Vincent Leonard -- Actor
R
S
Steinbeck, John -- Author, Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winner
Stevens, John Paul -- Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
T
Taft, William Howard -- Only person ever to be both U.S. President and Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court
U
V
Vincent, Strong -- Union Army Brig. General hero killed at the Battle of Gettysburg, at the age of 26.
W
Wadsworth, Peleg and Elizabeth Bartlett Wadsworth -- Peleg was a Revolutionary War general. Elizabeth is the Bissell Cousin whose daughter Zilpah became Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's mother.
Wray, Fay -- Actress, Star of "King Kong"