Friday, June 17, 2005

Speaking of having lots of kids.....check these out!

Jesse Owens, seventh of eleven children, famous runner, 1913

Edith Bolling Wilson, seventh of eleven children, wife of 28th President Woodrow
Wilson, 1872

Thomas Edison, seventh of seven children, Inventor, 1847

Mina Miller Edison, seventh of eleven children, wife of Thomas Edison, 1865

Harriett Beecher Stowe, seventh child, author, 1811

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, seventh child of which only two survived, Austrian
composer, 1756

Jacques Offenbach, seventh of ten children, French composer, 1819

William Steinway, seventh of seven children, civic leader and marketing genius
and maker of Steinway pianos, 1836

William Henry Harrison, seventh of seven children, Ninth president, 1773

Franklin Pierce, seventh of eight children, 14th President, 1804

William McKinley, seventh of nine children, 25th President, 1843

William Howard Taft, seventh of ten children, 27th President, 1857

Charles Grandison Finney, seventh child, great evangelist and theologian, 1792

Nate Saint, seventh child, Ecuadorian missionary supply pilot and martyr, 1923

20th President James Garfield had seven children

22nd and 24th President Grover Cleveland had seven children

2 comments:

Alana said...

So, are you making an announcement here???????

Dollymama said...

Actually, NO!

You know, I'm such a retard. It was only the other night that I thought to myself, "Wait a minute...were all those *7th* children? People are gonna think I'm pregnant!"

Nope. Sorry. Just thought it was a neat list. I better go find one for 6 now....