Notable Descendants
Glenn Close
Actress, (Hugh-John-Hugh-Ann, etc.)
John D. Rockefeller IV
Governor of West Virginia, U.S. Senator (Hugh-John-Mary, etc.)
Willard Milton "Mitt" Romney
Governor of Massachusetts, U.S. Senator (Hugh-Sarah, etc.)
Jon Huntsman Jr.
Governor of Utah, Ambassador to Russia, Ambassador to China, Ambassador to Singapore (Hugh-Sarah, etc.)
Bill Gates
Businessman, founder of Microsoft, head of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Hugh-John-Samuel-Jemima, etc.)
Tracy Caulkins
Olympic champion and world swimming record holder (Hugh-David-Jonathan-Thomas-Jonathan-Isaac, etc.)
Richard Tiffany Gere
Actor (Hugh-Sarah, etc.)
Susanna C. Calkins
Historian and author (Hugh-John-John-John-John-Moses, etc.)
Aaron C. Rodgers
Green Bay Packers quarterback (Hugh-John-Samuel-Stephen-Justus-Sylvanus, etc.)
Lucy Calkins
Founding Director of the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project at Columbia University (Hugh-John-John-James-James-Frederick, etc.)
Bradley H. "Buzz" Calkins Jr.
Businessman and former Indy Racing League driver (Hugh-John-Samuel-Jemima, etc.)
Matthew Calkins
Appian CEO, Board game inventor & competitor (Hugh-John-Samuel-Stephen-Amos-Noah, etc.)
Geoff Calkins
Host of "The Geoff Calkins Show", sports writer and columnist. (Hugh-John-John-James-James-Frederick, etc.)
Gary Boyd Roberts
American genealogist, author, and Senior Research Scholar Emeritus of the New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS). (Hugh Calkins, Sarah Calkins, etc)
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