Warren Vanders, 9th Cousin

 

Actor. He is best remembered for his portrayal of the level-headed Bagby in "Rooster Cogburn" (1975). Born Warren Vanderschuit, after attaining his degree in theatrical arts from Pepperdine University, he began his career appearing as a leading man in stock companies. After being discovered by a talent scout during a stage production of "Our Town", he was brought out to several major studios for screen and voice tests. Upon being reviewed by Irvin Kerschner, he was so impressed by his blonde looks, articulate voice, and slim physique, that he arranged for him to begin a career in the film industry beginning with him appearing under his supervision per a supporting role in "Now is Tomorrow" (1958). From there, he would go on to enjoy a successful career as a notable character actor appearing in over 70 features; often typecast as cowboys, boyfriends, blue-collared guys, fathers, husbands, guards, soldiers, neighbors, landlords, faithful friends, clergymen, retail clerks, businessmen, and, in his later years, patriarchs. He appeared in such feature films as "The Great Imposter" (1960), "Rough Night in Jericho" (1967), "Stay Away, Joe" (1968), "The Price of Power" (1969), "The Revengers" (1972), "Hot Lead and Cold Feet" (1978), and "Touched" (2006). On television, he became an even more familiar face appearing in numerous guest spots on such syndicated sitcoms as "Bronco," "Stagecoach West," "Tate," "The Barbara Stanwyck Show," "Cain's Hundred," "Empire," "Temple Houston," "Destry," "The Fugitive," "Combat!," "Mission: Impossible," "Iron Horse," "Daniel Boone," "Hawaii Five-O," "Alias Smith and Jones," "Gunsmoke," "The Waltons," "Kung Fu," "The Snoop Sisters," "Mannix," "The Rockford Files," "Little House on the Prairie," "Police Story," "How the West Was Won," "Jessica Novak," "Dallas," "Lime Street," "Cagney & Lacey," "Matlock," "The Trials of Rosie O'Neill," and "Judging Amy". During his career, he was a member of the Screen Actors Guild, had been supportive of the Motion Picture and Television Fund, was a member of the Hollywood Democratic Committee, had been a regular parishioner of the Catholic church, was a certified schoolteacher who taught at the Whittier High School District, served in the United States Navy, had been a professional boxer, had been an chairman for his local charters of the American Red Cross and Habitat for Humanity, and he was married to actress Dawn Bender from 1953 to 1955 (their union ended in divorce and produced no children). Upon his 2006 retirement, he spent the final years of his life being a regular attendee at autograph conventions, and was involved in charitable and religious causes, until his death from the complications of lung cancer.

Bio by: Lowell Thurgood

Hiram Bingham III, my 6th cousin three times removed, discoverer of Machu Picchu

 

Explorer, US Senator. He was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. His father, whom he was named after, was a well-known missionary who instilled a profound sense of adventure in his son. He was educated at Harvard, Yale and the University of California, earning a PhD in South American history. In 1900, he married Alfreda Mitchell, heir to the Tiffany fortune. With his wife's wealth, he was able to subsidize his later explorations. In 1906, he traveled to South America, attempting to retrace the route taken in 1819 by Simon Bolivar from Venezuela to Colombia. Two years later, he followed an old Spanish trade route from Buenos Aires across the Andes Mountains to Lima, Peru. His greatest discovery came in 1911 while leading the Yale Peruvian Expedition. He was determined to find Vilcabamba, the storied "lost city of the Incas." There were few clues regarding the location of the city, and traveling the Andes was very dangerous. However, on July 24, 1911, he and his guide discovered the ruins of Machu Picchu. He returned the following year on behalf of Yale and the National Geographic Society, and spent three years excavating the site. In 1917, he earned his pilot's wings and became chief of the Air Personnel Division of the Air Service in Washington D.C. Rising to Lieutenant Colonel, he commanded the Aviation Instruction Center in France during World War I. He taught history at Harvard and Princeton, but spent most of his teaching career at Yale. In 1922, he was elected lieutenant governor of Connecticut. He became governor in 1924, but served just two days before being chosen to fill a vacant seat in the United States Senate. He was reelected to a full term in the Senate in 1926, but lost reelection in 1932, which ended his political career. After he left the Senate he devoted himself to his business interests. In 1951, President Harry S. Truman appointed him to the Civil Service Loyalty Review Board, which investigated cases of suspected subversion in the state department. He died in Washington D.C.

Bio by: Ugaalltheway

My 8th cousin once removed

 Ray Bradbury, (born Aug. 22, 1920, Waukegan, Ill., U.S.—died June 5, 2012, Los Angeles, Calif.), U.S. author. Bradbury is best known for highly imaginative science-fiction stories and novels that blend social criticism with an awareness of the hazards of runaway technology. The Martian Chronicles (1950; television miniseries, 1980) is considered a science-fiction classic. His other short-story collections include The Illustrated Man (1951; film, 1969), The October Country (1955), I Sing the Body Electric! (1969; teleplay, 1981), and Quicker Than the Eye (1996). Among his novels are Fahrenheit 451 (1953; film, 1966); Dandelion Wine (1957; film, 1997) and its sequel, Farewell Summer (2006); and Death Is a Lonely Business (1985).

https://www.britannica.com/summary/Ray-Bradbury

My classmate's blog

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Samuel Clark Spaulding, 4th cousin five times removed

 

Marion Hollins, my 8th cousin twice removed

 Hollins was an elite amateur golfer, winning the US Women's Amateur in 1921 and the Pebble Beach Championship a record seven times.  She also captained the inaugural USA Curtis Cup team in 1932.   On the basis of a shared strategic golf course architectural philosophy , she forged a fruitful and enduring design collaboration with Alister MacKenzie on multiple projects including Pasatiempo, Augusta National and Cypress Point.  MacKenzie extended her full credit for the idea of making Cypress Point's iconic 16th hole  into a dramatic "one-shotter".  This hole endures today as a testament to her capability as a player and her vision as a golf designer/architect.  Yet among her many accomplishments, none exceeds her role in developing the Monterey Peninsula into a golf Mecca.  In particular she will always be remembered as the inspirational driving force behind the founding and formation of the Cypress Point Club.  In 2020, Hollins was elected to the 2021 (now 2022 due to the pandemic) World Golf Hall of Fame, along with Tim Finchem, Susie Maxwell Berning and Tiger Woods.

Charles Winslow Gates, Governor of Vermont, 7th cousin 3 times removed

 Governor of Vermont. He graduated from St. Johnsbury Academy and became a farmer, teacher, and school administrator. He was President of the Franklin County Fair Association and a Director of the Enosburg Falls Savings Bank. Gates founded the Franklin Telephone Company in 1895. He served in the Vermont House from 1899 to 1900, in the state Senate from 1901 to 1902, and as a member of the state highway commission from 1904 to 1914. Recognized as a loyal Republican with progressive ideas, in 1914 he was nominated for Governor in an attempt by Republicans to heal the rift between party activists who supported President Taft's reelection in 1912 and Progressives who supported Theodore Roosevelt. Gates served from 1915 to 1917, and during his term Vermont enacted direct primaries for nominating US House and Senate candidates, worker's compensation, a junior and senior high school system, and a public school vocational education program. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican US Senate nomination in 1916, after which he returned to his Franklin County business interests.

Remembering my relatives who were KIA in the World's wars

 Edwin F. Adams, 1862, Civil War; 2Lt. Arthur Jay Allred, 1943, WWII, Morocco; 1Lt.  John W. Anderson, 1944, WWII, Italy; Cpl. Alvah Ernest Avery, 1918, WWI, France; Captain Kenneth Frank Backus, 1975, Vietnam;  George Eastman Barnes, 1847, Mexican War, Chapultepec;  Captain Oliver Bates, 1775, Westford, Mass; Capt. Paul Jennings Bates, Jr., 1971, Vietnam, Quang Tri; Cpl. Walworth Wade Boynton, 1864, Civil War, Fairfax, Virginia; HM3 Philip Sherwood Bryant, 1968, Vietnam, Quang Tri;  Pvt. Henry J. Butterfield, Civil War, Gettysburg, PA;  Andrew Jackson Clark, 1864 Civil War, Pine Bluff, Arkansas;  Cpl. Henry James Clark, 1864, Civil War, Spotsylvania, Virginia;  Sgt. Vincent Allen Clark, 1968, Vietnam, Vietnam;  Major Allen Joe Conley, 1944, WWII, Italy;  Lt. Joseph Allen Davis, 1863, Chancellorsville, Virginia;  SSgt.  Willis M. DeForest, 1945, WWII, Italy;  Benjamin Franklin Eastman, 1864, Civil War;  Lt. Kenneth Elvin Eaton, 1944, WWII, Italy;  Maj. Virgil Loren Emerson, 1943, WWII;  Charles Ainsworth Etherington, 1864, Civil War, Dallas, Georgia;  Irving Lee Stone Farley, 1944, WWII;  Sgt. Roger Wayne Fellers, 1970, Vietnam, Vietnam;  PFC Raymond L. Fish, 1945, WWII, Germany;  Capt. Herbert Donald Fogg, 1943, WWII, Tunisia;  William Follett, 1864, Civil War, Resaca, Georgia;  Dennis Alan Getty, 1967, Vietnam, Vietnam;  Sgt. Jamie Gray, 2004, Iraq War, Baghdad, Iraq;  Maj. Mason Wilbur Gray, 1918, WWI, France;  James N. Hamilton, 1865, Civil War;  Capt. Abner G. Heald, 1863, Civil War, Chickamauga, Georgia;  Benjamin Franklin Heald, 1864, Civil War, Spotsylvania, Virginia;  Capt. John Avery Heald, 1865, Civil War, Prince Edward County, Virginia;  Capt. Donald B.  Holyoke, 1944, WWII;  Cpl. James Bingham Huntington, 1864, Civil War, Kennesaw, Georgia;  WO Dee Aaron Hyden, 1969, Vietnam, Quang Tri;  Jesse Lynn Johnson, 1944, WWII, France;  Hanford D. Kinney, 1863, Civil War;  Newcomb Kinney, 1864, Civil War, Virginia;  Henry Rudolph Kramer, 1918, WWI, France;  Sgt. Daniel Lamson, 1862, Civil War, Virginia;  LCpl. Rexford Adelbert La Rock, 1966, Vietnam, Quang Tri;  Granville Loring Marean, 1942, WWII;  2Lt. Lindsay LaRue McCall, 1943, WWII;  Asa Heald Melvin, 1864, Civil War, Petersburg, Virginia;  Sgt. Augustus J. Miller, 1863, Civil War,\ Louisville, Kentucky;  1Lt. Willis Bryant Moulton, 1944, WWII, Niedersachsen, Germany;  Lt. Albert Mason Murdock, 1865, Civil War, Petersburg, Virginia;  Theodore Carroll Newcity, Jr., 1967, Vietnam, Vietnam;  SSgt. Gail M. Omholt, 1945, WWII, Manheim, Germany;  PFC Raymond Boardman Parkhurst, Jr., 1945, WWII, Germany;  Pvt. Charles Nevins Parkhurst, 1862, Civil War, Stafford, Virginia;  Dr. Phineas Parkhurst, 1778, Revolutionary War, Boston, Massachusetts;  Ira A. Payne, 1863, Civil War;  Pvt. Shattuck Parker Peck, 1865, Civil War, 1865, Petersburg, Virginia;  Sgt. Edwin Darling Pickett, 1863, Civil War, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania;  Steven S. Pierce, 1862, Civil War, Pittsburg Landing, Virginia;  Corp. William Putnam, 1864, Civil War, Cedar Creek, Virginia;  Pvt. George E. Reed, 1864, Civil War, Reams, Virginia;  Theodore F. Ripley, 1863, Civil War, Memphis, Tennessee;  1Lt. William E. Sharp, Jr. 1945, WWII, Belgium;  Howard Allen Shepardson, 1943, WWII, Papua, New Guinea;  George Loring Sherman, 1864, Civil War, Spotsylvania, Virginia;  PFC. Ralph Everett, Sherwin, 1944, WWII, France;  Waldo Sherwin, 1864, Civil War, Washington, D. C.;  PFC Charles J. Siffrinn, 1944, WWII, Italy;  William Lewis Sisco, 1945, WWII;  Sgt.  Adoniram Judson Slafter, 1863, Civil War, Knoxville, Tennessee;  2Lt. Albert Slafter, 1863, Civil War, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania;  Pvt. Edward Albert Spalding, 1865, Civil War, Memphis, Tennessee;  Homer Spaulding, 1862, Civil War, Shiloh, Tennessee;  Lt. Joseph Spaulding, 1775, Revolutionary War, Boston, Massachusetts;  Oscar Spaulding, 1862, Civil War, Culpeper, Virginia;  Lt. Richard Arnold Storrs, 1918, WWI, France;  Pvt. George Stowell, 1864, Civil War, Vicksburg, Mississippi;  2Lt. Gaines Randall Stuart, 1944, WWII, France;  Leader Ray Thaldorf, 1945, WWII, Luxembourg;  SSgt. Garth G. Thurston, 1945, WWII;  Capt.  John Harvie Underwood, 1945, WWII, Germany;  Corp. Mark Dee Vincent, 1970, Vietnam, Vietnam;  PFC Michael Frederick Walker, 1968, Vietnam, Tay Ninh;  Ruvillo R. Walker, 1865, Civil War, New Orleans, Louisiana;  Pvt. Leland Standford Westover, 1917, WWI, France;  FO  Devoe, Wolf, 1944, WWII, Belgium;  Lt.  Warren Kenneth Wright, 1944, Northern Mariana Islands

John Davis, 4th Cousin 6 times removed

 U.S. Congressman, U.S. Senator, Massachusetts Governor. He attended Leicester Academy, graduated from Yale College in 1812, studied law, was admitted to the bar and commenced to practice law in Worcester, Massachusetts. He was elected as a open candidate to the Nineteenth Congress and to the next four succeeding Congresses, serving (1825-34), when he was elected the 14th Governor of Massachusetts, serving (1834-35). In 1835, he was elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the United States Senate, serving until 1841. After his term, he was again the 17th Governor of Massachusetts, serving (1841-43). In 1845, he was elected as a Whig to the United States Senate, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Isaac C. Bates, was reelected in 1847 and served until 1853. Among the founders of the State Mutual Life Assurance Company in 1844, after leaving politics he served as its president of the company until his death at age 67.

Katherine Rolston Ward Fisher, 8th Cousin twice removed

 

Biographical Database of Militant Woman Suffragists, 1913-1920

Biography of Katharine Rolston Fisher, 1871-1950

By Kathleen Smith
Teaching Professor, Georgetown University with research assistance from Pamela Nakahata Smith

Assistant Editor of The Suffragist; Recording Secretary, Washington, D.C. branch of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage

Born on October 20, 1871 in Massachusetts, Katharine Rolston Fisher, (aka Katharine Ward Fisher) was the daughter of Francis D. Fisher and Sarah E. Fisher (née Dix). She was the great-granddaughter of Revolutionary War Major General Artemas Ward, whose house in Shrewsbury exists as a museum to this day. Apparently never married and without children, Rolston Fisher passed away in her home state on January 1, 1950.

Katharine Rolston Fisher worked variously as a bibliographer, writer, and clerk. Between 1898 and 1900, she contributed articles to the Boston publication The Congregationalist. 1901 saw the publication of Elements of the Theory and Practice of Cookery: A Textbook of Household Science for Use in School, coauthored with Mary E. Williams.

On July 9, 1902, the New York World reported on a suicide attempt by Katharine Rolston Fisher, whom the newspaper identified as the librarian of the Manhattan-based Charity Organization Society. Friends and family interviewed by the paper expressed puzzlement about her leap from a Brooklyn bound ferry, noting that the twenty-five-year-old was in good health and had not suffered any romantic disappointments. She was living in California in 1909, but by 1911 she had returned to Brooklyn, N.Y.

Rolston Fisher's involvement with the suffragist movement can be traced at least to 1915 when the Evening Star (Washington, D.C.) reported that "Miss Katharine Rolston Fisher of California, a woman voter" had been brought on by Lucy Burns as an assistant editor for The Suffragist. A year later, according to the Washington Herald, she was elected recording secretary of the Washington DC branch of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage. For the April 1, 1916 issue of The Suffragist, Rolston Fisher penned an article supporting the strategy of asking women in those states that had granted women the franchise to use their electoral power to elect proponents of federal action. She also was part of the Congressional Union's delegation to the Republican National Convention in Chicago in June 1916. In spring of 1917, Rolston Fisher participated in calls on congressmen to lobby for suffrage.

The September 22, 1917 issue of The Suffragist features a photo of Rolston Fisher holding an empty pole after the banner she and another picketer had been holding had been torn away by a group of sailors. The picket in question on September 13, 1917 had also resulted in Rolston Fisher's arrest. Along with five other demonstrators, she received a sentence of thirty days in the workhouse at Occoquan.

Rolston Fisher played an important role in publicizing the poor treatment of prisoners in the workhouse; while still in prison, she began to spread word of rotten food, proximity to prisoners with infectious diseases, pressure to perform manual labor while undernourished, withholding of mail, and denial of visits with counsel. As she would write in "From the Log of a Suffrage Picket," "We learned what it is to live under one-man law. The doctor's orders for our milk and toast and even for our medicines were countermanded by the superintendent, so we were told." Based on her time in Occoquan, Rolston Fisher also penned the poem "The Empty Cup" describing the harsh treatment of suffragist leader Lucy Burns.

The US Census of 1920 placed Rolston Fisher in residence at the 'Suffragist House' (NWP headquarters) at 14 Jackson Place, Washington, D.C. and listed her profession as a government clerk. According to Doris Stevens, she worked at the U.S. War Risk Bureau. In or around 1923, she wrote a pamphlet "Lucretia and Elizabeth, London 1840-Seneca Falls 1848," a copy of which can be found in the Library of Congress Special Collections. Rolston Fisher continued to reside in Washington, D.C. for the next twenty odd years while working variously as an author and bibliographer.

Selected Sources:

Adams, Katherine H. and Keene, Michael L., Alice Paul and the American Suffrage Campaign (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008)

"Edith Goode is Suffrage Head," Washington Herald, June 25, 1916, p. 7.

"Her Woe a Secret, Girl Tries to Die," New York World, July 9, 1902.

"Plan of Suffragists to Petition Congress," Evening Star, September 9, 1915, p. 22.

Rolston Fisher, Katharine, "Concerning Appeals," The Suffragist, April 1, 1916, p. 7.

Rolston Fisher, Katharine, "From the Log of a Suffrage Picket," The Suffragist, October 13, 1917, p. 9.

Rolston Fisher, Katharine, "The Empty Cup," The Suffragist, October 17, 1917, p. 8

Stevens, Doris, Jailed for Freedom (rev. ed), ed. Clare O'Hare (Troutdale, OR: NewSage Press, 1995)

"Portrait of Katharine Rolston Fisher, n.d.," National Women's Party Records, Library of Congress Manuscript Division, container I:150.

Source:  https://documents.alexanderstreet.com/d/1009054753

Medal of Honor Recipent, my 6th cousin, 4 times removed, Francis Snow Hesseltine

 Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient. He served as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Union Army in the 13th Maine Infantry. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for action on December 30, 1863. His citation reads "In command of a detachment of 100 men, conducted a reconnaissance for two days, baffling and beating back an attacking force of more than 1000 Confederate cavalry, and regained his transport without loss."