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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"

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