page_title: Nehemiah Royce House
section_title: Descendants
hierarchical_section_title: Nehemiah Royce House / Biography of Nehemiah Royce / Descendants
caption_attribution_description: English: Nehemiah Royce House rear Wallingford, CT spring 2016.
context_page_description: The Nehemiah Royce House, also known as the Washington Elm House, is a historic home located at 538 North Main Street in Wallingford, Connecticut. George Washington visited the house twice, first in 1775 while on his way to take command of the Continental Army in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and again in 1789 when he gave an address to the townspeople in front of the house near the Elm.
context_section_description: Nehemiah Royce's descendants number in the thousands today. Some of his notable descendants include:
  Jonathan Brace, (1754–1837) was a United States Representative from Connecticut. He was born in Harwinton, Connecticut and graduated from Yale College in 1779.
  Clint Eastwood, American film actor, director, and producer
  Millard Fillmore, (1800–1874) was the 13th President of the United States, serving from 1850 until 1853 and the last member of the Whig Party (United States) to hold that office.
  Oliver Wolcott Gibbs, was an American editor, humorist, theatre critic, playwright and author of short stories, who worked for The New Yorker magazine from 1927 until his death in 1958.
  Hamilton Jeffers, (1893–1978) was a noted astronomer.
  John Robinson Jeffers, (1887–1962) was an American poet, known for his work about the central California coast. He is considered an icon of the environmental movement.
  George B. McClellan, Civil War general, Governor of New Jersey, Democratic opponent of Abraham Lincoln in the 1864 United States presidential election.
  Frederick Law Olmsted (1822–1903) was an American journalist, landscape designer and father of American landscape architecture, famous for designing many well-known urban parks, including Central Park in New York City.
caption: Nehemiah Royce House spring 2016
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