Sumner family

• Increase Sumner, early governor of Massachusetts
• William H. Sumner, son of Increase and early Massachusetts historian
• Charles Sumner, distant cousin of Increase and William, and abolitionist U.S. Senator during the U.S. Civil War
• Edwin Vose Sumner, Union general during the U.S. Civil War, second cousin of Charles Sumner.
• Edwin Vose Sumner Jr., son of Edwin Vose Sumner and Union general during the U.S. Civil War
• Samuel S. Sumner, son of Edwin Vose Sumner Sr. and U.S. Army general during the later 19th century.