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One Hundred Famous People: And Their Siblings
One Hundred Famous People: And Their Siblings
One Hundred Famous People: And Their Siblings
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After reading a book about the Wright Brothers, after learning that there were two other brothers and a sister in their immediate family, Jay Woodard decided there might be a lot of other famous people in history that had siblings. This began an eight-month research project, culminating in the completed book.
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    Adams, Abigail

    She was born Abigail Smith, November 22, 1744, and died at 74, October 18, 1818. She was born in Weymouth, Massachusetts. Supposedly, she was born in a church, the North Parish Congregational Church. Her father was a minister there. His wife died in the same church. Because she was unhealthy as a child, Abigail had little conventional education. Her mother home-schooled her and her two sisters. She studied hard and would read with her friends to strengthen her knowledge. She married her third cousin, John Adams, on October 25, 1764. They were married in the home of her parents in Weymouth. She and John had known each other since childhood. Although her father approved of the marriage, her mother at first didn’t like the idea of her daughter marrying a lawyer.

    The couple had six children during the next twelve years. After moving several times in Boston, the family moved to their farm in Braintree in 1774. Abigail was known for her long letters to John during his time spent in the Continental Congress. She gave him lots of ideas and advice. When he became President, she became the second first lady. In 1800, they moved to the uncompleted White House, where she stayed in ill health a lot of the time. She lived there for the last four months of John’s presidential term. She brought the three children of her brother, William, her son, Charles, and her brother-in-law, John Shaw, to live with them in the White House. When John Adams retired, he and Abigail were able to spend more time together. Abigail continued to run the farm and to take care of family members, including their eldest child, Nabby, who died of cancer at their home in 1814. Abigail Adams had typhoid fever, then a stroke in October of 1818, and died at home, surrounded by her family.

    Siblings of Abigail Adams

    Mary Smith Cranch

    She was born in Massachusetts, December 9, 1741, and died at 70, October 17, 1811, in Massachusetts. She married Richard Cranch from Devon, England, November 25, 1762. He was a judge, postmaster, and senator. But his avocation was the making and selling of timepieces. They had two sons and two daughters. Mary died the day after Richard died.

    Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody

    She was born in 1742, in Charleston, Massachusetts, and died at 74, in 1815. She was known as Betsy. She first married Rev. John Shaw. She then married Rev. Stephen Peabody, on Dec. 8, 1795, in Atkinson, New Hampshire. She is buried in Atkinson.

    William Smith

    He was born in 1746, and died at 41, in 1787. He was a captain in Lincoln’s Minutemen and fought in the battle of Concord. Supposedly, he ran up debts. Abigail had to bail him out by paying the debts herself. Evidently, he died of alcoholism. He deserted his wife and four children. Eventually, he would be involved in crimes relating to forgery and passing of phony notes. Abigail would seldom mention his name in her letters to her sisters but sometimes would refer to him as the poor man. The three Smith sisters would put a code on the exterior of the envelope. That way, they would know to keep the contents to themselves.

    Adams, Ansel

    Ansel Easton Adams was born on February 20, 1902, in San Francisco, and died April 22, 1984. He was the only son of Charles Hitchcock Adams and Olive Bray Adams. Charles ran the lumber business established by his father. He also set up a chemical company and an insurance company. Ansel was close to his father. In 1906, they lived through the San Francisco earthquake. Ansel was only four years old when it hit. He was thrown into a wall, and his nose was broken, leaving it unfixable. He lived the rest of his life with a crooked nose. He just didn’t fit in at school, possibly due to the quake, who knows? Today we would have a name for the condition, but then he was just hyperactive, and some would say he was a hypochondriac. His dad took him out of school and got him into homeschooling with various tutors. In 1907, his family moved to a new home. From there he could see the Golden Gate Bridge. Little Ansel, who was sickly, did not have many friends, but the landscape around his home kept him occupied. When he became a little older, he enrolled in public and private schools. Unable to adjust, he got dismissed from each of them. In 1914, at twelve, his father took him out of school to be home-schooled.

    At home, Ansel continued his education under the supervision of private tutors. Also, Ansel started taking piano lessons in 1914 and soon made up his mind to take it up as a career option, continuing to work in that direction until 1920. Although he later gave it up in favor of photography, the training helped him to get become self-disciplined. After a while, Ansel started attending Mrs. Kate M. Wilkins Private School, where he studied up to eighth grade and received his diploma on June 8, 1917. He also studied with his father and his Aunt Mary, his mother’s sister. When he was free, he explored Lobos Creek and collected bugs. Ansel and his father went to Yellowstone in 1920, and that was the beginning of his love of photography. His photography led him to have his own gallery. His favorite cause was environmentalism, and the books he produced were numerous. One of his original photographs sold in 2010 at Sotheby’s for over $700,000. He worked for the Best Studio in Yosemite Valley, California, and while there met and married the daughter of the owner, Virginia Best in 1928. They had two children, Michael, in 1933, and Anne, in 1935. Ansel joined the Sierra Club and was on the board for 37 years. Through his photography, as well as appearances before Congress, he helped get Yellowstone designated as a national park in 1940. In those early years, Ansel mounted a camera platform on top of his car to take the Yellowstone shots, as opposed to climbing the mountains, which he did later. He is best known for the beautiful black and white landscape photographs he made. Adams died of heart problems in California. His wife and children survived him. Today, the family is still operating the Ansel Adams Gallery.

    Siblings of Ansel Adams

    None. He was an only child.

    Adams, John

    He was born October 30, 1735, in Braintree (now part of Boston), Massachusetts, and died July 4, 1826. John Adams had no middle name. His father, John Adams, Sr., died in 1761 and was a deacon of the church, a lieutenant of the militia, a constable, a tax collector, a selectman, and a farmer. John’s mother, Susanna, remarried in 1766, to Lt. John Hall, with whom John never got along. Susanna evidently had a hot temper, so it was probably not a happy home. John’s second cousin was Samuel Adams, the notorious revolutionary.

    At age sixteen, Adams entered Harvard College in 1751. His father had sold 10 acres of their farm so John could attend Harvard. After graduating in 1755 with an A.B. degree, he taught school for a few years in Worcester, Massachusetts. At age twenty-one, he decided to become a lawyer, writing his father that he found among lawyers noble and gallant achievements but among the clergy, the pretended sanctity of some absolute dunces. John was kin to the woman he married, Abigail Smith. She was his second cousin. They married October 25, 1764. They had six children: Abigail in 1765, future president John Quincy Adams in 1767, Susanna in 1768, Charles in 1770, Thomas in 1772, and Elizabeth, stillborn, in 1777. John served in the Continental Congress in 1774 and helped with the writing of the Declaration of Independence. He went on to become the vice president of the U.S. under George Washington, and then the second President of the U.S., serving from 1797 to 1801.

    John Adams died from the flu, which was an epidemic at the time. He died in Braintree, Massachusetts on his father’s farm, July 4, 1826, the same day that Thomas Jefferson died. That day was the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Supposedly the two riders taking the death messages to the two families passed each other in transit.

    Siblings of John Adams

    Elihu Adams

    He was born May 29, 1741 and died August 10, 1775. He was born in Braintree, Massachusetts to John Adams, Sr. and wife, Susanna Boylston. His older brothers were John and Peter Boylston Adams. Elihu married a girl named Thankful White. They had two children that we know of, John and Susanna, 1768 and 1766, respectively. Elihu joined the Continental Army in the Revolutionary War and served as militia captain at the Siege of Boston. He fought at the 1775 battle of Concord Green. However, he died young, as he got a bad case of dysentery, dying in 1775 at the age of 34.

    Peter Boylston Adams

    He was born October 16, 1738 in Braintree, Massachusetts, and died there June 2, 1823, at 85. He married Mary Crosby in 1768. They had 6 children: Mary, Boylston, Susannah, Thomas, Ann, and Elizabeth. Peter was a representative to the General Court from the town of Braintree for two years. He, like his brother, Elihu, served as militia captain from Braintree. By profession, he was a farmer.

    Alcott, Louisa May

    She was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, November 29, 1832, and died of a stroke at 56, in Boston, March 6, 1888, just two days after her father died. She was buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord, Massachusetts. She was an American poet and writer of novels. She wrote Little Women , for which she became famous. Growing up, she was a tomboy. Her father, Bronson, was a bit off the beaten path, in that he was a transcendentalist. Transcendentalism was a belief in the goodness of people and nature. People who adhered to this philosophy believed that people live their lives best when they are self-reliant and independent. Louisa met other people with her father’s similar beliefs. People such as Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson were also transcendentalists, and like her father were members of the Transcendental Club. Louisa’s mother, Abigail May Alcott, was a teacher and social worker. But Bronson was a tough-minded man when it came to child rearing. He had a hard time making money, as money was scarce. At the start of her writing career, Louisa went by the pen name of A. M. Barnard. Later, she wrote under her real name, having success beginning in the 1860’s. Little Women was published in 1868 and was quickly a great success and remains popular today as a children’s book. The novel was based on her home life in Concord. She used her sisters, with names changed, as characters. She wrote over 30 published books. Throughout her life, she was a feminist and an abolitionist. She was never married.

    Siblings of Louisa May Alcott

    Anna Bronson Alcott Pratt

    She was born on March 16, 1831, in Concord, Massachusetts. She died July 13, 1893, at 62. Anna was the first born of four sisters. As they grew older, she became involved in writing with her sister, Louisa. She would often help with the proofing of Louisa’s works. They formed the Concord Dramatic Union and produced plays. Anna fell in love with one of the actors in their play, The Loan of a Lover. His name was John Bridge Pratt. They married on May 23, 1860, the anniversary of her parent’s wedding. They had two sons, John and Frederick. But Anna’s husband died, leaving her to care for the boys. She purchased the Thoreau House along with Louisa. They took care of their father as well as the boys.

    Elizabeth Sewell Alcott

    Elizabeth, (Lissie), was born June 24, 1835, and died at 22, March 14, 1858. Louisa based Beth in Little Women on Elizabeth. Elizabeth got scarlet fever in 1856, then recovered somewhat, but two years later she died in her sleep. Supposedly, when she died, her mother, the doctor, and Louisa, all saw a vapor rise from her body.

    Abigail May Alcott

    She was born July 26, 1840, in Concord, Massachusetts, and died at 39, December 29, 1879. She was the youngest of the four Alcott daughters. In the book, Little Women, Louisa made May’s character Amy. From her early years May exhibited a talent for the arts. After studying art in Boston, she was able, with Louisa’s money, to achieve her dream of studying in Europe. She made three trips to Europe, studying art in Rome, Paris, and London. In 1878, May married a Swiss businessman, Ernest Nieriker. They lived in a suburb of Paris where they had a daughter, Louisa May, in 1879. They called her Lulu.

    Alexander the Great

    He was born in 356 BC. He died at 33, in 323 BC. He was born in Pella, in the old Greek kingdom of Macedon. His father, Philip II, was assassinated. Alexander, when he was 29, succeeded his father. Alexander was a cavalry commander at 18. He built a large army and made conquests throughout Asia, and northeast Africa. By the time he was 30, his areas of occupation had stretched from Greece to northwest India. His military was never defeated. Aristotle was his private tutor until Alexander was 16. Alexander was married three times, to Roxana (for four years), to Stateira (one year), and to Parysatis (one year). He died in Babylon, which was the city he had planned to become his capital, but it never happened. Many experts suspected that he was poisoned. After Alexander’s death, some civil wars took place, ending with the setting up of new states. These were ruled by Alexander’s heirs as well as his best generals and other officers. Military schools still teach Alexander’s strategies throughout the world. Alexander the Great’s tomb became a major tourist attraction. Four Roman emperors, all paid their respects including Pompey, Julius Caesar, Augustus, and Caligula. They traveled to Alexandria to say goodbye. Supposedly, Augustus was so overwhelmed while there, that he broke off the nose of Alexander’s mummy while laying flowers on his grave. For a man seemingly invincible on the battlefield, Alexander died at the young age of 33. Alexander’s death came after suffering from a fever that lasted for ten days. The cause was much debated, with some experts attributing it to poison, malaria, or typhoid fever. It is said that thousands of members from his army passed by Alexander, while he lay in bed, waving at them as they passed.

    Siblings of Alexander the Great

    Philip III of Macedon

    He was born Philip III Arrhidaeus in 359 BC and died at 42, December 25, 317 BC. He was king of Macedonia from 323 BC until his death. His father was King Philip II of Macedon. His mother was Philinna of Larissa, and Philip was a half-brother of Alexander the Great. He married Eurydice II of Macedon.

    Cleopatra of Macedon

    She was born in 357 BC, and died at 49, in 308 BC in Turkey. Her father was Philip II of Macedon, and her mother was Olympias of Epirus. Thus, she was the only real sibling of Alexander the Great. She married Alexander I of Epirus in 336 BC. They had one child, Neoptolemus II of Epirus.

    Cynane

    She was born in 357 BC, and died at 34, in 323 BC. Illyrian women led armies in battle. Her mother taught these skills to Cynane. She trained her in riding, hunting, and fighting. She fought better than most men and became famous for her abilities. She married Amyntas IV of Macedon. Cynane later trained her daughter, Eurydice II, of Macedon in the same manner of fighting as she had learned from her mother. Cynane was a half-sister to Alexander the Great and was the daughter of Philip II and his wife, Audata, an Illyrian princess. Cynane refused to be controlled by any man. Two opposing Macedon forces met, one led by Alcetus, who she had known all her life in court, and the other one by Cynane. She was giving him a lecture from her horse when Alcetus killed her before she finished her speech.

    Thessaloniki of Macedon

    She was born in 352 BC, and died at 57, in 295 BC. Thessaloniki was a Macedonian princess. She was the daughter of King Philip II of Macedon and his Thessalian wife, Nicesipolis, who may have been his mistress. The royal family took shelter in Pydna, and the execution of her stepmother threw her into the control of Cassander, who seized the opportunity to link himself with the Argead dynasty by marrying her. Thessaloniki became queen of Macedon, and the mother of three sons, Philip, Alexander, and Antipater. Cassander honored her by naming the city of Thessaloniki in her honor. That city, founded by Cassander, remains today one of the wealthiest in Macedonia.

    Caranus

    He was born between 338 and 336 BC. He was the son of Philip II and Cleopatra Eurydice, making him a half-brother of Alexander the Great. Cleopatra also had another child, a daughter named Europa, born just a few days before the death of Philip. Caranus was assassinated, along with his sister, Europa, and their mother. They were believed to have been burned alive by Olympias, Philip’s fourth wife, and the mother of Alexander the Great.

    Europa of Macedon

    No information regarding the birth of Europa has been found. She was the daughter of Philip II by Cleopatra Eurydice his last wife. She is thought to have been murdered, along with her mother and brother Caranus by Olympias.

    Anthony, Susan B.

    She was born February 15, 1820, in New York, and died at 86, March 13, 1906. Her parents were Daniel and Lucy Anthony. Anthony’s parents gave Susan the middle name Brownell. Simeon Brownell was a Quaker abolitionist who supported her parents’ women’s rights efforts. Susan’s family was Quaker, and they were interested in equal rights. She was a teacher for a while. She made $2.50 a week, while men made $10 a week. At the age of 17, Susan started collecting anti-slavery petitions. In 1856, she was appointed the state agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society. About 1851, she met Elizabeth Cady Stanton. They worked together for women’s rights. The next year, they formed the New York Women’s State Temperance Society. In 1863, they started the Women’s Loyal National League. That organization collected over 400,000 names on a petition supporting the abolition of slavery.

    The two women formed several other organizations over the years. Susan gave about 100 speeches on women’s rights each year. The high point of her relationship with Stanton came in 1878 when Anthony and Stanton arranged a presentation to Congress of an amendment giving women the right to vote. It became known as the Anthony Amendment and eventually became the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. She spent her 80th birthday at the White House, having been invited by President McKinley. In 1979, she was depicted on a U. S. dollar coin. Her views on marriage were for equality between the woman and her husband. She never married and felt that the men she wanted she couldn’t get, and the ones that wanted her, she wouldn’t want. Some people say she was a lesbian, but there has been no proof of that allegation. Although she was a Quaker, she was an agnostic in later life. In 1958, she was put on a U. S. postage stamp.

    Siblings of Susan B. Anthony

    Daniel Read Anthony

    He was born August 22, 1824, and died at 80, November 12, 1904. His parents were Daniel and Lucy Anthony. He married Anna Osborn. Daniel became an abolitionist and a publisher. He published the Leavenworth Times in Leavenworth, Kansas. Daniel got into some nasty quarrels and was shot by one of his enemies. In a duel, he killed a man. He was very opinionated.

    Hannah Lapham Anthony Mosher

    She was born September 18, 1821, and died at 56, May 11, 1877. She married Eugene Mosher in 1845. She was one of Susan’s most ardent supporters. She died of what might have been cancer and struggled with it for the last two years of her life. At her death, she was with her family, including Susan, who had cared for her the last two months of her final days.

    Mary Stafford Anthony

    She was born in New York, April 2, 1827, and died at 80, February 5, 1907. She, like her sister, Susan, was a suffragist. Mary worked very hard for women’s rights and was a teacher. She taught in the Rochester schools and was promoted to principal. She was known for the fact that she obtained similar pay as the male principals, an idea that had not often been considered by the leaders.

    Jacob Merritt Anthony

    He was born April 19, 1834, and died at 66 June 7, 1900, in Kentucky. Merritt arrived in Kansas in April of 1856, as he followed John Brown, the abolitionist who often visited New York. During the Civil War, Merritt served as a captain in the Seventh Kansas Cavalry. In the winter of 1858, he met his bride-to-be at the railroad station and whisked her off to the preacher during the night. And if that wasn’t enough, he chose a cabin that had fresh hog carcasses hung throughout for their honeymoon!

    Guelma Penn Anthony McLean

    She was born July 1, 1818, and died at 55, November 9, 1873. Guelma Penn Anthony was Daniel and Lucy Read Anthony’s oldest child. Guelma was named for the wife of the late seventeenth-century Quaker leader, William Penn. Guelma married Anthony (Aaron) McLean in 1839. Before she married, she was a teacher. Aaron was the grandson of John McLean, Daniel Anthony’s business partner. The Anthony family regarded Aaron as one of their own. Because Aaron was of the Presbyterian faith, the Quakers withdrew Guelma’s membership for the reason, marrying out of meeting. This event troubled the family but did not dissuade Guelma from marrying Aaron. Guelma gave birth to four children. Her illness, diagnosed as tuberculosis, progressed, and she died in November 1873. Guelma was buried at the Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, New York.

    Eliza Tefft Anthony

    She was born in 1832, and she died in 1834.

    Antoinette, Marie

    She was born Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna, in Vienna, Austria, November 2, 1755, and died at 38, October 16, 1793. She was the daughter of Emperor Francis I and Empress Maria Theresa. They produced 16 children. When she was 14, as their youngest daughter, she married the heir apparent to the French throne, Dauphin Louis-Auguste, 15. He would eventually be known as King Louis XVI. The marriage created the bond between Austria and France, former enemies. They married the day after they met. It was a huge ceremony and took place in the Palace of Versailles. But there was no heir born during the next seven years. Marie’s mother sent her son, Emperor Joseph II, to see what the problem was. As a result, a baby was born a year later and was the first of their four children. Marie was a pop star as a teenager, and at one point, over 50,000 people turned out to cheer her on, and about 30 were trampled to death. She was known to wear very creative hair concoctions that her hair stylist would come up with, up to four feet high. At one point, it was shaped like a warship. She had a peasant village built at Versailles. She and her ladies would dress as peasants to enjoy all the gardens, waterfalls, and lakes. This extravagance did not go over very well with the revolutionaries at the time. They nicknamed her Madame Deficit. When Marie was told about the peasants starving, she supposedly said, Let them eat cake!. That was not true, as it had proposed by the philosopher, Jean-Jacques Rousseau describing another queen in the 1660’s.

    Marie Antoinette was the last queen of France before the revolution. She and the king had two sons and two daughters. Louis XVII, a son, was never actually king and was imprisoned for three years until his death at ten years of age in 1795. Louis Joseph, Marie Therese, and Princess Sophie Helene Beatrice were the other children. A Revolutionary Tribunal, about nine months after the King’s execution, tried the former queen on crimes against the country. She was convicted and sentenced to death. The executioner shaved her head, and after she was beheaded, her body was put in a coffin and dumped into a communal grave behind the Church of the Madeline. After the restoration of the Bourbon dynasty, and the return to the throne of King Louis XVIII, the king ordered Marie’s body be exhumed and given a royal burial

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