18th & 19th century Unites States naval officers and national heroes
Prominent entrepreneurs
"Perry's Victory"
Photo: Courtesy of von Trapp family
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Four generations of Rowland Hazards, 1883
Photo: © 21st Century Fox
The real von Trapp family's story inspired the play and movie, The Sound of Music
One of the original Elizabethtown Purchase patentees (first English settlement in the Colony of New Jersey) and establisher of the first commercial whaling enterprise in America
Solvay Process Collection
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Carla's great-grandparents: the real-life Georg and Maria von Trapp
Painting: Samuel Finley Breese Morse 1822
Early settlers of Rhode Island, industrialists, politicians, philanthropists, and activists
One of the world's most beloved, enduring, and popular musicals of all times
Descendant of Mayflower passengers and early American industrialists
Photo by Coleman & Remington
Mayflower passengers and early settlers of America: Pilgrims, founders of the Plymouth Colony, Governor, and signatories to the Mayflower Compact
Photo: © Mike Haywood
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Painted by William Henry Powell of Cincinnati in 1865
Carla directly descends from multiple historic legacies. She is a great-granddaughter of Baron Captain Georg von Trapp and his second, wife Baroness Maria Augusta von Trapp— whose family’s life story inspired the world-renowned musical, The Sound of Music. Carla is a granddaughter of Baroness Eleonore von Trapp of the Trapp Family Singers. She is a member of the Hazard family of Rhode Island— prominent industrialists, philanthropists, and activists. She also descends from six of the Mayflower passengers, and other notable early European settlers of America.
19th-century American family responsible for the cotton gin, the Blake Stone Breaker, advancements in communication and sound-recording, and various hardware innovations
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Photo: Courtesy of von Trapp family
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