Clinton Eastwood
Compiled by D. A. Sharpe
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Clinton Eastwood, Jr. is my eighth cousin,
once removed. , being traced through English immigrant
Joseph Kellogg. He also may be traces to our family through Plymouth Colony Governor
William Bradford, arriving 1620 on the Mayflower. He would be the seventh cousin,
three times removed from BradfordÕs son. Clint Eastwood, Jr. was born May 31, 1930 in
San Francisco, California.
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Our ancestor in common is Joseph Kellogg (1626-1707). Joseph was at
Farmington, CT in 1651, which would have been age 25 for Joseph. He joined the church there with his wife
Oct 9,1653. He moved to Boston, MA about 1657 where he purchased property 16
Oct 1659, then sold the Boston property 13 Jun 1661 and moved to Hadley. He
agreed to keep ferry between Hadley and Northampton in 166, which he, son John,
and grandson James operated until 1758. The Court at Hadley formalized fares
and conditions for the ferry in Jan 1675, Jun 1677, and in 1687. He was
selectman a number of times, and served on various town committees. Joseph was
named Sgt. of the military company ('train band') Mar 1663, Ens. in the Foot
Company 9 May 1678, and Lt. of the same company 7 Oct 1678. He served as Lt. under
Capt. Aaron Cook, Jr. until 1692. Joseph was in charge of the Hadley troops at
the Turners' Falls Fight on 18 May 1676. His will dated 17 Jun 1707 and proved
4 Feb 1708, contains considerable details on his estate and family, and
includes his testimony of faith.
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Source: http://trees.wmgs.org/getperson.php?personID=I7999&tree=Schirado
Here is a sketch of Governor Bradford.
Clint Eastwood, Jr. was born the same year the
same year as when William Howard
Taft,
the 27th president and a former chief justice of the United States, died in
Washington, D.C., at age 72 on March 8, 1930. Taft was the father-in-law of Eleanor
Kellogg Chase Taft, my sixth cousin, once removed. Clint is the seventh cousin,
twice removed to Eleanor.
Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Howard_Taft
Clint was born the same month that Ellen
Church, the first airline stewardess, went on duty aboard a United Airlines
flight between San Francisco and Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Source:http://www.pbs.org/kcet/chasingthesun/innovators/echurch.html
Clint was a motion picture producer, director
and actor (including Dirty Harry 1977), and recipient
of numerous motion picture industry awards.
Source:http://kinnexions.com/kinnexions/cousinsd.htm#CEastwood
Perhaps the icon of macho movie stars, and a
living legend, Clint Eastwood has become a standard in international
cinema. Born in 1930 in San
Francisco, the son of a steel worker, Eastwood was a college dropout from Los
Angeles College, attempting a business related degree. He found work in such B-films as
"Tarantula" (1955), and "Francis in the Navy" (1955), until
he got his first breakthrough with the long-running TV series "Rawhide" (1959). As Rowdy Yates, he made the show his own
and became a household name around the country.
But Eastwood found even bigger and better
things with "Per un pugno didollari" (1964)
("A Fistful of Dollars"), and "Per qualche
dollaro inpi" (1965)
("For a Few Dollars More").
But it was the third sequel to "A Fistful of Dollars" where he
found one of his trademark roles:
"Buono, il brutto, il cattivo,
Il" (1966) ("The Good, The Bad
and The Ugly"). The movie was a
big hit, and he became an instant international star. Eastwood got some excellent roles
thereafter: "Where Eagles
Dare" (1968) found him second fiddle to Richard Burton, but to the tune of
$800,000 in this classic World War II movie. He also starred in "Coogan's Bluff" (1968), (the loose inspiration to the
TV series "McCloud" (1970)) and the unusual, but successful "Paint Your Wagon"
(1969). In 1970 Eastwood went in an
experimental direction again with the offbeat "Kelly's Heroes"
(1970), which was yet again a success.
His best year in films, or at least one of his
best, proved to be 1971. He starred
in the thriller "Play Misty for Me" (1971) and
"The Beguiled" (1971).
But it was his role as the hard edge police inspector in Dirty Harry
(1971) that gave Eastwood one of his signature roles and invented the
loose-cannon cop genre that has been imitated even to this day. Eastwood still found work in Spaghetti
westerns like "High Plains Drifter" (1973), "Joe Kidd"
(1972) and "Hang 'Em High" (1968). Eastwood had constant quality films with
"Thunderbolt and Lightfoot" (1974) and "Magnum Force"
(1973), a sequel to "Dirty Harry" (1971), but 1976 found Eastwood
with even more legendary films. The
first was "The Enforcer" (1976), often considered to be the best
"Dirty Harry" sequel, and "The Outlaw Josey Wales" (1976), considered to perhaps be one of the quintessential westerns.
As the late seventies approached, Eastwood
found more solid work in comedies like "Every Which Way But Loose"
(1978) and in thrillers like "Escape from Alcatraz" (1979), but he
seemed to have lost his edge in making great films. In the early eighties, Eastwood made
credible movies with "Honkytonk Man" (1982) and "Firefox"
(1982), but it was the fourth sequel to "Dirty Harry", "Sudden Impact" (1983),
that made him a viable star for the eighties. At this time, Eastwood seemed to be
competing with Burt Reynolds as America's top movie star. In the mid-eighties
Clint made some solid movies, but nothing really stuck out. "Tightrope" (1984), "City
Heat" (1984) (with Reynolds), and others were solid, but not classic
films. In 1988, Eastwood did his
fifth and, up to this point, final "Dirty Harry" movie, "The
Dead Pool" (1988). Although it
was a success, overall it did not have the box office punch his previous films
had. About this time, with outright
bombs like "The Rookie" (1990) and "Pink Cadillac" (1989),
it was fairly obvious Eastwood's star was declining as it never had
before. He then started taking on
more personal projects such as directing "Bird" (1988), a biopic of
Charlie 'Bird' Parker, and starring in and directing "White Hunter, Black
Heart" (1990), an uneven, loose biography of John Huston.
But Eastwood surprised yet again. First with his western, "Unforgiven" (1992), which garnered him an Oscar for
director, and nomination for best actor. Then he took on the secret service in In the "Line of Fire" (1993), which was a big hit,
followed by the interesting but, poorly received drama, "A Perfect
World" (1993), with Kevin Costner.
Next up was a love story, "The Bridges of Madison County"
(1995), but it soon became apparent he was going backwards after his brief
revival. Since "The Bridges of
Madison County," his films have been good, but not always successful at
the Box Office. Among them were the
badly received "True Crime" (1999) and "Blood Work" (2002),
and the well-received "Space Cowboys" (2000). But he did have a big success directing
"Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" (1997).
Eastwood has seven children, has been married
twice, and had a longtime relationship with frequent co-star Sondra Locke. Although he is aging now, Clint Eastwood
has surprised before, and who knows, he may surprise again.
IMDb mini-biography by
Scott- msa0510@mail.ecu.edu
Source: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000142/bio
The family name of Eastwood may come from
immigrants who used that name as the place from which they came in
England. That is not certain, but
here is some information about that town:
"Eastwood is
a town four miles west of South end on Sea in Essex, England. It is a suburb of
Southend and part of the Southend-on-Sea
unitary district. Eastwood is
sometimes called Eastwood Park, such as for local elections.
"Eastwood is bordered by Rayleigh to the
west, Rochford to the north-east, and Belfairs to the south.
To the north lies Edwards HallPark, a large
area of open countryside, part of which is farmland. This green space extends all the way to
Hockley Woods, and Hockley. There
are also several swing parks throughout Eastwood.
"Leigh-on-Sea is to the south, and the
centre of Southend is to theSouth-East."
Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastwood,_Essex
