Famous Cousins
- Joseph James Hargrave; Fur Trader (1st cousin, 4 times removed)
- Edward Hopper; Painter (6th cousin, 3 times removed)
- Douglas MacArthur; General of the Army of the United States (9th cousin, 2 times removed)
- Eleanor Roosevelt; First Lady of the United States (8th cousin, 2 times removed)
- Theodore Roosevelt; President of the United States (7th cousin, 3 times removed)
- Alexander George Ogston; Biochemist (3rd cousin, 2 times removed)
- Hannah Van Buren; First Lady of the United States (5th cousin, 6 times removed)
- Martin Van Buren; President of the United States (4th cousin 7 times removed)
- Cornelius Vanderbilt; Industrialist (4th cousin, 8 times removed)
- James Van Ness; Mayor of San Francisco (5th cousin, 6 times removed)
Revolutionary War Soldiers
- Haynes Fitch; Private, 9th Connecticut Regiment (5G grandfather)
- James Fitch; Captain in the 19th Connecticut Militia (2nd cousin, 8 times removed)
- James Hall; Botetourt County Virginia Militia (5G Granduncle)
- Garrit Hopper; 11th Albany County New York Militia Regiment (1st cousin, 7 times removed)
- John Hopper; Captain in the Bergen County New Jersey Militia (2nd cousin, 7 times removed)
- John Outwater; Captain in the Bergen County New Jersey Militia, Outwater’s Company (6G Granduncle)
- Joost Zabriskie; Captain in the New Jersey Militia (3rd cousin 7 times removed)
Civil War Soldiers
- Charles Glover Blackman; Company D, 17th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry Regiment (3rd cousin, 5 times removed)
- Horace Titus Brown; 10th Michigan Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (GG Grandfather)
- Alva Fitch; 14th Ohio Light Artillery (GG Grandfather)
- Gilbert George Fitch; 31st Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment (GG Granduncle)
- William Hargrave; Company C, 142nd Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment (half 1st cousin, 4 times removed)
- William Hargrave; Private, Company F, 141st Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry (1st cousin, 4 times removed)
- John C. Hopper; Acting Aide-de-Camp to General John C. Frémont, Commander of the Department of the West (GGG Granduncle)
- Gilliam Van Houten; Colonel, 21st New Jersey Volunteer Infantry Regiment (5th cousin, 5 times removed)
- Edward Murray; Mississippi Marine Brigade (GG Grandfather)
- David Vreeland; 35th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry Regiment (4th cousin, 5 times removed)
Relatives Also Named Kermit
- Edith Kermit Carrow (Spouse of 7th cousin, 3 times removed)
- Kermit Roosevelt (8th cousin, 2 times removed)
- Kermit Roosevelt, Jr. (9th cousin, 1 times removed)
- Kermit Roosevelt III (10th cousin, 1 times removed)
Immigrant Grandparents
- Edward William Murray
- Although he was born in New York in 1843, he returned to County Sligo, Ireland, when he was 4 after his mother died and then returned to the US with a relative when his father died. He lived in Rhode Island until he was 16, then moved to Juneau County, Wisconsin. In 1862, he went south and enlisted in the United States Ram Fleet (reorganized as the Mississippi Marine Brigade in 1863). He was promoted to Second Master and then command of the Tug Cleveland after the Battle of Island N. 10. In 1865, he married Ellen Catherine Hopper of New Orleans who was the daughter of riverboat pilot Henry Cornelius Hopper. After Ellen’s death, he returned to Wisconsin where he was a probate judge for 28 years.
- Andries Willem Hopper
- Patriarch of the New Amsterdam Hoppers.
- Jan Lubbertse Van Blarcom
- David Ackerman
- Michiel Jansen Vreeland
- Roelof Cornelissen Van Houten
- Cornelius Hendricksz Van Ness
- Cornelis Aertsen Van Schaick