Notable Descendants
Howland and wife, fellow Mayflower passenger Elizabeth Tilley and ten children and 88 grandchildren. The couple founded one of the three largest Mayflower progenies and their descendants have been "associated largely with both the 'Boston Brahmins' and Harvard's 'intellectual aristocracy' of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries."
John and Elizabeth Howland's direct descendants include notable figures such as:
- U.S. presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt, George H. W. Bush, and George W. Bush.
- U.S. first ladies Edith Roosevelt and Barbara Bush
- Continental Congress President Nathaniel Gorham
- Former Governors Sarah Palin (Alaska) and Jeb Bush (Florida)
- Poets Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, an Florence Earle Coates (a 9th generation descendant and a founding member (1896) of the Society of Mayflower Descendants in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (SMDPA))
- Actors/actresses Christopher Lloyd, Humphrey Bogart, Maude Adams, Anthony Perkins, Lillian Russell, and the Baldwin brothers (Alec, Daniel, William and Stephen). and Chevy Chase.
- Prophet and founder of the Latter Day Saint movement Joseph Smith, Jr., his wife Emma Hale, and President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Brigham Young
- Opera singer and music educator William Howland
- Conductor and pianist Robert Spano
- Colin Tilley, American music video director for Riveting Entertainment
- Canada diplomat Warwick Fielding Chipman
- Howland's descendants also include wives of FDR Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt, George H.W. Bush, his wife Barbara Bush and their son George W. Bush,
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