Romney family

Romney family

Mitt Romney and his wife Ann
Ethnicity English-, Scottish-, Welsh-, Mexican- and German-American
Current region United States
Members George Romney, Lenore Romney, Mitt Romney, Ann Romney, George S. Romney, Marion G. Romney, Henry Eyring, Camilla Kimball, Henry Bennion Eyring
Connected families Eyrings, Kimballs, Mathesons, Pratts, Smiths

The Romney family, prominent in U.S. politics and other professions,[1] is most known for its connection with George Romney (1907 in Colonia Dublán, Galeana, Chihuahua, Mexico – 1995 at Bloomfield Hills, Michigan), 43rd governor of Michigan (1963–1969) and his son, Mitt Romney (born 1947 in Detroit, Michigan), 70th governor of Massachusetts (2003–2007), and Republican nominee for the presidency of the United States in 2012. George Romney's father was Gaskell Romney[2][3][4][5] (1871 in St. George, Utah – 1955 in Salt Lake City, Utah), and his mother was Anna Amelia Pratt.[6][7] Anna's grandfather was renowned early Mormon leader Parley Parker Pratt.[8][9][10]

Based upon the family's heritage going back to the first Mormon generation and to their modern-day prominence in business, politics, and as part of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, authors Richard and Joan Ostling have written variously that the Romneys are "an LDS political dynasty"[11] and that "The Romneys are LDS royalty."[12] The family is linked by marriage to the Smith family,[6] and has a lateral relationship with the Matheson family, the Huntsman family,[13][14] and the Eyring family.[15] A branch of the Romneys reside in the Mormon colonies in Mexico.[16][17] The Romney family emigrated to the United States from Dalton-in-Furness, England in the 1840s.[18][19]

For more details on the notable relations of Anna Pratt, the wife of Gaskell Romney, see Pratt family.

Family members

Miles Romney (1806–1877) was born in Dalton-in-Furness, Lancashire (now in Cumbria), on July 13, 1806. He was the son of George Romney, Jr. (whose father, George Romney, Sr. was first cousin to the English portrait painter also named George Romney[18][20]) and Sarah King and married November 16, 1830 to Elizabeth Gaskell[21] at Dalton-in-Furness. He was the father of Miles Park Romney and was a convert to the LDS Church. Romney died in St. George, Utah on May 3, 1877. He was an architect and designed the St. George Tabernacle and Brigham Young Winter Home and Office, the latter with his son, Miles Park Romney.[22]

  • George Romney (August 4, 1831 – February 2, 1920) was the son of Miles and Elizabeth. He married Jane Jamieson (March 15, 1850– ) and Vilate Ellen Douglas.[23] He was a Bishop with the LDS church and played a role in the early development of the state of Utah.[23]
  • Miles Quintin Romney (1919–1998), son of Miles and Laura, was an attorney of the U.S House of Representatives and a poet. Miles Q. Romney was the son of Miles and Laura.[24]
  • Clyde Romney, the son of Miles Alonzo, married Almera Anderson.[25] He was a salesman and Almera was a school principal.[26]
  • Clyde Anderson Romney (1943–2006), the son of Clyde and Almera, was the Chief of Staff in Washington D.C. to U.S. Congressman Ron Packard of California from 1983 to 1986. A graduate of Stanford University, he was Bishop of the LDS Church San Dieguito Ward between 1974 and 1979 and Bishop of the LDS Church Carlsbad Ward. He served as LDS Church Regional Public Affairs Director for the county of San Diego and Bishop of the LDS Church Palomar Ward, Escondido South Stake from 1998 to 2006. Clyde was Chairman of the San Luis Rey Indian Water Rights Task Force and Congressional Facilitator of the San Luis Rey settlement act. Romney was candidate for the San Diego County board of supervisors in 1986 and the Palomar College Board of Trustees in 1988. He was a Republican.[25][26]
  • G. Ott Romney (December 12, 1892 – May 3, 1973) was born in Salt Lake City, the son of George Ernst and Hannah, and died in Alexandria, Virginia. He was the third head football coach at Brigham Young University, coaching for nine years from 1928 to 1936. His national positions included Chairman of the National Recreation Policies Committee, National Director of the Recreation Section of the Works Progress Administration or WPA, assignments with the American Alliance of Health, Physical Education and Recreation, and membership on U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Council on Youth Fitness. During World War II he served as Chief of Recreation and Club Unit Services to the United States Armed Forces through the Red Cross. He married Ruth Harding in 1919, and they are parents of three children – two girls and one boy.[27][28]
  • Miles Park Romney (1843–1904) was born in Nauvoo, Illinois, the son of Miles Romney and Elizabeth Gaskell. He married Hannah Hood Hill in Salt Lake City, Utah on May 10, 1862. He was the president of the St. George Social Hall Company and the St. George Dramatic Association, and also served as a chief of police, attorney-at-law, newspaper editor, and architect.[3][29] He also married Caroline ("Carrie") Lambourne, Catharine Jane Cottam, Annie Maria Woodbury and Emily ("Millie") Henrietta Eyring Snow as plural wives.[3][30]
  • Helen Hackett Brown Romney (1917–2004) was the wife of Vernon Romney. She was the Vice Chairman of Utah Republican Party, and served on the State Health Board as well as the State Parks and Recreation Board. She was a Founding and Charter Member of Utah State Heritage Foundation. Her first husband Vernon C. Brown (1912–1955).[31]
  • Vernon B. Romney (1924–2013), son of Vernon C. and first cousin of George W., served two terms as Attorney General of the State of Utah from 1969 to 1976.[32][33] He was defeated in a 1976 bid for governor. He is married to Patricia (Pingree) Romney.

  • Keith Bradford Romney (1929–2015) was the son of Vernon Romney. In 1960, the first condominium in the continental United States was built in Salt Lake City, Utah. The legal counsel for the project, Keith B. Romney is also credited with authoring the Utah Condominium Act of 1960. Romney also played an advisory role in the creation of condominium legislation with every other legislature in the U.S. Business Week hailed Romney as the "Father of Condominiums". He soon after formed a partnership with Don W. Pihl called "Keith Romney Associates", which was widely recognized throughout the 1970s as America's preeminent condominium consulting firm. He was a largest financial supporter his brother, politician Vernon B. Romney.[34]
  • Miles Archibald Romney (November 9, 1869 – November 28, 1939) was the son of Miles Park Romney and Hannah Hood Hill. After wedding Frances Turley in 1889, he married three sisters, Lily, Elizabeth and Emily Burrell, from 1898 to 1909.[35][36]
  • Keith Romney (1913–2003), son of Miles, was automobile dealer and LDS Church branch president in Las Cruces, New Mexico 1941–1950. He was a member of the El Paso Stake Presidency from 1952–1962, bishop of the Las Cruces Ward 1962–65, mission president of the West Spanish American Mission in Los Angeles, California between 1965–67, and president of the Southeast Mexican Mission, Vera Cruz, Mexico from 1967–69. He was Stake Patriarch in August, 1974 and member of Honorary Spanish Society at New Mexico State University, receiving the Master M Men award in 1972.[35]
  • Gaskell Romney (1871–1955) was born in St. George, Utah, the son of Miles Park Romney and Hannah Hood Hill. He married Anna Amelia Pratt in Colonia Dublán, Galeana, Chihuahua, Mexico, on February 20, 1895. He was the father of five sons and one daughter: Maurice, Douglas, Miles Pratt Romney, George W. Romney, Lawrence and Charles, and daughter Meryl who married Lavell G. Ward of Bloomington, Idaho.[37] Gaskell would be a candidate for County Commissioner 1931 as a Republican. He died in Salt Lake City, Utah on March 7, 1955, and is buried Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park in the city.[29]
  • Lenore Romney (1909–1998) was married to George W. Romney and is the mother of Mitt Romney. She was the daughter of Harold Arundel LaFount, and was a Republican candidate for U.S. Senator from Michigan in 1970.[12]
  • Ann Romney (b. 1949) is married to Mitt Romney and from 2003 to 2007 was First Lady of Massachusetts.[12] She is the daughter of Edward Roderick Davies.
  • Miles Romney Sr. (December 18, 1872 – March 31, 1943) was a Democrat and member of the State Democratic Central Committee in Montana. He was Mayor of Hamilton, Montana from 1902 to 1904 and served as a Montana State Senator from Ravalli County between 1906 and 1910. He was unsuccessful in three primary bids for Montana governor. Romney served as State Director of the National Recovery Act and also organized the Federal Housing Administration in Montana and the National Emergency Council, which became the U.S. Office of Government Reports. He was President of the Montana Press Association and publisher of the newspaper Hamilton Western News.[46][47]
  • Miles Romney Jr. (December 6, 1900 – February 19, 1976) was a member of the Montana House of Representatives between 1966 and 1970. In 1971, he was elected as a delegate to the state Constitutional Convention and was appointed to the Montana Senate in 1973 and elected to a full term in 1974. Romney was the publisher of the newspaper Hamilton Western News.[48]

Descendants of Miles Romney

Lafounts

George Romney's wife Lenore LaFount's family of origin:

Others

Notable relations

Places and awards

See also

References

  1. ↑ "THE NEW KENNEDYS: Eight American Political Dynasties Of The 21st Century", Grace Wyler. Business Insider. September 1, 2011. Retrieved December 5, 2011
  2. ↑ Romney, Mitt (2004), Turnaround: Crisis, Leadership, and the Olympic Games, Regnery Publishing, ISBN 978-0-89526-084-0
  3. 1 2 3 Romney, Catharine Cottam; Hansen, Jennifer Moulton (ed.) (1992), Letters of Catharine Cottam Romney, plural wife, University of Illinois Press
  4. ↑ Romney, Thomas Cottam (1938). Mormon Colonies in Mexico. University of Utah Press. (Reprinted in 2005, ISBN 978-0-87480-838-4). publisher's page on the book
  5. ↑ Kranish, Michael; Helman, Scott (2012), The Real Romney, HarperCollins, p. 52
  6. 1 2 Lamb, Brian (March 19, 2006), Q&A with Mitt Romney, C-SPAN
  7. ↑ Harris, T. George (1968), Romney's Way: A Man and an Idea, Prentice-Hall, p. 15, ...young Gaskell Romney married a Pratt girl, Anna Amelia. ... Anna Pratt Romney, George's mother, belonged to the bluestockings of the Mormon establishment."
  8. ↑ Bowman, Matthew (2012), The Mormon People: The Making of an American Faith, Random House, p. xix, One hundred and fifty years after the death of his ancestor, Parley Pratt's great-great-grandson Mitt Romney announced his bid for the Republican Party's nomination. ... He had served as governor of Massachusetts, and his father, George, as governor of Michigan.
  9. ↑ Denton, Sally (January 29, 2012), Mitt and the White Horse Prophesy, Salon magazine, ...the youngest son of the most prominent Mormon in American politics — a seventh-generation direct descendant of one of the faith's founding 12 apostles—Mitt Romney....
  10. ↑ Rich, Frank (January 29, 2012), "Who in God's Name Is Mitt Romney?", New York, Romney is...the scion of a family dynasty integral to the progress of an American-born faith....
  11. ↑ Ostling, Richard N.; Ostling, Joan K. (1999). Mormon America: The Power and the Promise. New York: HarperOne. p. 134. ISBN 0-06-066372-3.
  12. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Ostling, Richard N.; Ostling, Joan K. (2007). Mormon America: The Power and the Promise (Revised ed.). New York: HarperOne. p. 134. ISBN 0-06-143295-4.
  13. ↑ Barbaro, Michael; Parker, Ashley (January 4, 2012), "On Stage, an Awkward Reminder of Personal Rifts in G.O.P.", The New York Times, The Romney and Huntsman families — two intertwined clans that go back to the early days of Mormonism....
  14. ↑ Krasny, Ros; Nichols, Michelle (January 2, 2012), Huntsman tries to turn up heat on Romney in N. Hampshire, Reuters, 'Both Romney and Huntsman descend from Parley P. Pratt, one of the most storied early Mormon leaders,' said Joanna Brooks, a Mormon scholar.... 'Both have family and personal connections to the institutional hierarchy of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. And both enjoy an unusual degree of access to high-ranking church leaders,' she said.
  15. ↑ Dictionary of scientific biography 17, Scribner, 1981, ISBN 978-0-684-16966-8
  16. ↑ "Mitt Romney, campaigning for Latino vote in Florida, seldom mentions Mexican roots". Associated Press. January 26, 2012.
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  18. 1 2 Cordelia Hebblethwaite (13 June 2012). "Mitt Romney's Mormon roots in northern England". BBC News Online, Preston. Retrieved 13 June 2012.
  19. ↑ "The Making of Mitt Romney [gallery image caption]", The Boston Globe, p. 2, retrieved January 30, 2012
  20. ↑ Bennett, Archibald Fowler (1951), A Guide for Genealogical Research, Genealogical Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, pp. 154–157
  21. ↑ Elizabeth Gaskell (Dalton-in-Furness, Lancashire, January 8, 1809 – St. George, Utah, October 11, 1884). Also a convert to the LDS Church.
  22. ↑ "A Gathering of Eagles: Conversions from the Four Quarters of the Earth", Daniel B. Gibbons. iUniverse, 2002. ISBN 0-595-21970-5, 9780595219704. pp. 245-247.
  23. 1 2 "Utah since statehood: historical and biographical, Volume 2", Noble Warrum. S. J. Clarke publishing company, 1919. p. 440.
  24. ↑ Congressional staff directory, Volume 18. Charles Bruce Brownson. Congressional Staff Directory, 1976. p. 475.
  25. 1 2 Congressional Staff Directory, 1985. Charles Brownson. Congressional Quarterly Books, 1985. ISBN 0-87289-061-9, 9780872890619. p. 1023.
  26. 1 2 "Supervisor Race Pits Familiar Figure Against Studious Rookie : Romney Relies on His Word, Not on His Record", Daniel Weintraub. Los Angeles Times. October 19, 1986. Retrieved December 5, 2011.
  27. ↑ "Ancestral File page on George Romney", Ancestry of G. Ott Romney. Family History Department, The Church of Jesus Latter Day Saints. Retrieved December 5, 2011.
  28. ↑ "G. Ott Romney Staff Bio", Brigham Young University. Retrieved December 5, 2011.
  29. 1 2 "Polygamy Prominent in GOP Presidential Hopeful Mitt Romney's Family Tree", FOX News. February 24, 2007. Retrieved December 5, 2011.
  30. ↑ Compton, Todd (May 2012). "Mitt Romney's Polygamous Heritage".
  31. ↑ "Obituary: Helen Brown Romney", Deseret News. February 18, 2004. Retrieved December 5, 2011.
  32. ↑ "State attorneys general back reinstatement of death penalty". Telegraph Herald (Dubuque, Iowa). Associated Press. December 6, 1972. p. 28.
  33. ↑ "Republicans plan strong campaign for Senate seats". Star-News (Wilmington, North Carolina). United Press International. June 22, 1975. p. 3A.
  34. ↑ Housing & development reporter, Volume 15. Bureau of National Affairs (Arlington, Va.). Bureau of National Affairs, 1987. pp. 663, 708.
  35. 1 2 Mormon polygamous families: life in the principle. Jessie L. Embry. University of Utah Press, 1987. ISBN 0-87480-277-6, 9780874802771. pp. 125, 144.
  36. ↑ Solemn Covenant: The Mormon Polygamous Passage. B. Carmon Hardy. University of Illinois Press, 1992. ISBN 0-252-01833-8. Appendix at p. 394, #162.
  37. ↑ "Death: Meryl Romney Ward". Deseret News. Retrieved 15 November 2014.
  38. ↑ Lander, Erik (September 14, 2008), Anna Amelia Pratt Romney, Find a Grave, Memorial # 29806490, retrieved March 14, 2012
  39. 1 2 Mahoney, Tom (1960). The Story of George Romney: Builder, Salesman, Crusader. New York: Harper & Brothers. p. 52. OCLC 236830.
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  43. 1 2 Ronna Romney Profile, Forbes.
  44. 1 2 Phillips, Frank (July 26, 1994). "Romney to stump for former in-law His father backs rival Mich. hopeful" (fee required). The Boston Globe. p. 19.
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  47. ↑ "Montana: a history of two centuries", Michael P. Malone, Richard B. Roeder, William L. Lang. University of Washington Press, Nov 1, 1991. ISBN 0-295-97129-0, 9780295971292. p. 256.
  48. ↑ "Miles Romney Jr. 1900–1976", University of Montana School of Journalism. Retrieved December 5, 2011.
  49. ↑ "Erastus Snow Romney". ancestry.com. Retrieved October 7, 2012.
  50. ↑ Thomas Cottam Romney "Mormon Colonies in Mexico", p. 284.
  51. ↑ BYU Hall of Fame profile, accessed October 18, 2010.
  52. ↑ "Elwood Romney". BYU Cougars. Retrieved October 15, 2011.
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  54. ↑ Golden, Colorado census records, 1940.
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  59. 1 2 Spencer W. Kimball, "President Marion G. Romney: A Symbol of Righteousness", Ensign, November 1972.
  60. 1 2 Andrew Jenson, Latter-Day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia: A Compilation of Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men and Women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Western Epics, 1971), p. 477
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