Ancestry of
Robert Frost
Poet and Playwright
Who was Robert Frost?
Robert Frost was an American poet who also wrote a number of plays. He was born Robert Lee Frost on 26 March 1874 in San Francisco, California, to William Prescott Frost, Jr. and Isabelle Moodie. His father was an editor of the San Francisco Evening Bulletin who diedd when Robert was only 11 years old.
In 1894 Robert Frost sold his first poem to the New York Independent for just $5. He would go on to win four Pulitzer prizes and a U.S. Congressional Gold Medal. At the inauguration for President John F. Kennedy in 1961, Robert Frost read his poem The Gift Outright. He and President Kennedy would both die just two years later.
Famous Kin
Robert Frost's famous kin include a number of U.S. presidents including William Howard Taft, Millard Fillmore, Calvin Coolidge, and both George Bushes. Entertainers Lucille Ball, Raquel Welch and Buffalo Bill are also among his kin. These are just a few examples of Robert Frost's famous kin.
Some of the most recently added connections of famous kin for Robert Frost
George Herbert
8th Earl of Carnarvon
Owner, Highclere Castle (aka Downton Abbey)
7th cousin 4 times removed
via Thomas Ayer
William Henry Moore
Co-Founder, U.S. Steel and Nabisco
21st cousin
via Reginald FitzPiers of Blewleveney
William Henry Moore
Co-Founder, U.S. Steel and Nabisco
16th cousin 1 time removed
via John de Welles
William Henry Moore
Co-Founder, U.S. Steel and Nabisco
18th cousin 3 times removed
via John de Botetourte
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