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Welsh in America William Penn, Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe; many of the signers of the Declaration of Independence; the first First Lady, Martha Washington, and the more-recent First Lady, Hillary Rodham Clinton; Meriweather Lewis and Daniel Boone; Harriet Beecher Stowe; Ellis Island was named after Samuel Ellis who owned the land in the late 1700s; Andrew Carnegie, the man of steel and library buildings; Elihu Yale; John Pierpont Morgan; George L. Jones, co-founder of The New York Times; the architect Frank Lloyd Wright; 2003 Nobel Prize in Economics co-winners Professor Clive W.J. Granger, University of California, and Professor Robert Engle, New York University; world-famous astronomer Professor Richard Ellis, California Institute of Technology; Edie Adams, Petula Clark and Tom Jones; Ray Milland, Bob Hope, Tom Cruise, and Catherine Zeta-Jones; John Perry, founder of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Selections from the brochure “Keeping up with the Joneses - the story of Wales and the Welsh in the USA” published by The Welsh Assembly Government, Wales International Center, Chrysler Building 21st Floor, 405 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10174; WalesInternational.NewYork@Wales.gsi.gov.uk. Welsh around the World Famous People – Welsh people and people of Welsh descent -- in Wales and around the World
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