YOUR FAMILY TREE.
With the publication last week of Your Family Tree, a fascinating genealogical study by Mr. David Starr Jordan, of Leland Stanford University, and Miss Sarah Kimball, many Americans woke up to find themselves not only un- expectedly akin, but also kinsmen of men of the most illustrious descent. Authors who are authorities on their subject trace, for instance, the ancestry of both Calvin Coolidge and William Shakespeare to the same progenitor, Sir John de Hampden, Sheriff of Buckinghamshire, who in turn was descended from Charlemagne himself, a descendant of Mark Antony. Indeed, it is said that the blood of William the Conqueror, Alfred the Great, and Charlemagne runs in the veins of nearly all Americans of Anglo-Saxon stock. J. P. Morgan, Ray Lyman Wilbur, Admiral Dewey, John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Jefferson Taft, Hamilton Patrick Henry, and Emerson are said, among others, to have a common ancestor in David I., King of Scotland. In a direct line of descent from Henry I., King of France, are many Americans, including Grover Cleveland, Abraham Lincoln, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Russell Lowell,, and John D.
Rockefeller. English people, Miss Kimball remarks, are " the inbred descendants of Charlemagne," while both authors endorse the statement of Dr. Best, of McGill University, that " all Anglo-Saxons are at least thirtieth
cousins to one another." Ivy LEs. New York, Wednesday, June 26th.
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