It is reported that currently there are over 10 million living descendants of the 52 Mayflower Pilgrims who had children. Listed below are some of the notable descendants of John and Elizabeth Howland. Click on any of the highlighted names below for more information about the descendant. Note: Pages will open in a new browser window. External sites are not endorsed by the PJHS.

Maude Adams (stage actress)

Humphrey Bogart (film actor)

Phillips Brooks (wrote "O Little Town of Bethlehem")

George Herbert Walker Bush (41th U.S. President)

Barbara Bush (U.S. First Lady)

George W. Bush (43nd U.S. President)

John Ellis "Jeb" Bush (Florida Governor)

Ralph Waldo Emerson (poet)

Nathaniel Gorham (Continental Congress President)

Esther Allen Howland (produced the first American Valentines)

Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (U.S. Senator)

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (poet)

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (32nd U.S. President)

Lillian Russell (stage & film actress)

Joseph Smith (founder, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)