George Washington Gale Ferris Jr, inventor of the Ferris Wheel, belonged to haplogroup I-2. He was a descendent of Jeffrey Ferris, an early settler of Greenwich, Connecticut, who died in 1666. A descendent of Jeffrey Ferris has tested as I M170 > P215 > L460> Z53 > M223 > Y13037 at the Ferris DNA Project at FTDNA.
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