William and Helen Taft
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Robert Alphonso Taft | 1889 – 1953 | Martha Wheaton Bowers | Father of:
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Helen Herron Taft | 1891 – 1987 | Frederick Johnson Manning | Mother of:
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Charles Phelps Taft II | 1897 – 1983 | Eleanor Kellogg Chase | Father of:
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