They're the "Magnificent" family written about by Booth Tarkington in a 1919 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel
... admirably conceived and written was the tale of the Ambersons, their 
house,... [DOC] [TLE] #100 - The Magnificent Ambersons By Boothe Tarkington, winner of ... [PAR] Booth Tarkington, winner for two Pulitzer Prizes for Novel - in 1919 for "The ..... 
Presents a powerful, mythic story of an American farm family in Iowa.