A Few Interesting Folks in the Family Tree
  • Charles Nelms Lewis
    State senator from Kentucky in 1813

  • Merrill Emmet Noble
    Elected Chief Justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court in 1969

  • William Page
    American Artist

  • Edwin W Pauley
    Founder of Petrol Corp in 1923 Pauley Paviliion at UCLA is named in his honor for his philanthropy and service as a Regent

  • Dick Van Patten
    Actor

  • Richard Stockton
    Richard signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776

  • Donald R Van Petten
    He ranched and taught history and political science at Arizona State College/Arizona State University from 1942 to 1961. He served in the House of Representatives of the Arizona Legislature from 1928 to 1930. During his faculty years, he wrote several editions of a text on Arizona government, used extensively in schools throughout the state.

  • John Bullock Van Petten
    Known as the 'Reverend General'

  • John Greenleaf Whittier
    American Quaker poet, abolitionist and supporter of women's sufferage