Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-04-11
Names of the United States and Their
Signif3catious


Significati0ns.
NEW HAMPSHIRE was named from
County, in England. It
was formerly called Laconia. 1t was
,ne of the original thirteen. Adopted
,he Constitution in 1786.
VERMoNT-from the French Vert
Mont, signifying Green Mountains
aided to the extent of her ability in the
war of the Revolution, but failed to be
called one of the thirteen, not having
adopted the Constitution until 1871.
MASSACHUSETTS is the Indian name
for "The country around the great
hills" This State and Virginia were
English colonies, aid took
the foremost place in the opening of the
war of the Revolution. On its soil the
first battle was fought. Adopted the
Constitution 1888.
RHODE ISLAND, the beautiful little
State, owes its name to the Island of
Rhodes, in the Mediterranean, which do
main it is said to greatly resemble. 1t
was the last of the original thirteen that
adopted the Constitution, which oc-
CURED in 1870. She was such stick
Ter for liberty and freedom from re-
straint that she saw, or deemed she saw,
in the new Constitution some squirting
toward monarchy-hences she hesitated.
CONNECTICUT, from the Indian
Quonchita- Cut, signifying "Long Riv-
er." One of the original thirteen.
Adopted the Constitution in 1788.
NEW YORK was named for the Eng
ish Duke of York and Albany, who
sent out an expedition to America,
which landed at the little Ouch town of
Manhattan or New Amsterdam and PEN
etrated as far into the interior as Alba
ny. His expedition honored their pa
tron by giving the Dukes title name to
the colony and to two of the principal
towns. Adopted the Constitution as
one of the original thirteen 1788, and
was the national seat of government
when Washington was President.
NEW JERSEY, SO called in honor of Sir
George Carteret, VIII, was Governor of
the Island of Jersey, in the British
Channel One of the original thirteen.
Adopted the Constitution 1788.
PENNSYLVANIA, everybody knows,
means "Penn's woods" and was SO
called after William Penn, its original
Quaker owner. The cradle of the first
Congress and of the Declaration of In
dependence and of the Constitution OF
the United States, which, as one of the
original thirteen, she adopted in 1887.
DELAWARE, after Lord De la Ware.
One of the immortal thirteen. Adopted
the Constitution in 1887.
MARYLAND, after Henrietta Maria,
Queen of Charles the First of England
One of the thirteen. Adopted the Con
siitution in 1888.
/ : VIRGINIA, the Oldest of the States
and one of the original thirteen, was 81
called in honor of Queen Elizabeth, the
"Virgin Queen" in whose reign Sil
Walter Raleigh made the first attemp
to colonize that region. She adopted
the Constitution in 17SS.
The CARoLINAs were originally on,
tract, and were called "Carolina" af
ter Charles the Ninth of France. Nortl
Carolina, one of the thirteen, adopted
the Constitution in 1889. South Caro-
lima, also one of the original thirteen
| adopted the Constitution in 1888.
| GEORGIA owes its name to Georg
the Second of England, who first es
tablished colony there in 1872. Thi
State, the last in the list of the "Olt
Thirteen" but not the last to adop
| the Constitution, took her place il
| 1888.
The following have been erected int
territories, and admitted as States sine
the adoption of the Constitution by tn
first fourteen States.
KENTUCKY is the Indian for I" at tn
head of the river" Admitted as Stat
to the Union in 1892.
TENNESSEE is the Indian for eth
River of the Bend ID. e., the Missis
sippi, which forms its western honda
ry. Admitted in 1885,
OHIO means beautiful" Admitte,
as State in 1903.
LOUISIANA was called after Louis th
Fourteenth, who at one time owne
that section of the country. Bough
| from France in 1903, and admitted as
| State in 1912.
MISSISSIPPI is an Indian name, mean
ing "Long River" Admitted as
State in 1877.
ILLINOIS is derived from the India
word Stli,aa, men, and the French suff
ois, together signifying "tribe of men.
Admitted to the Union in 1878.
MAINE was called after the PROVING
of Maine ir France, in compliment {
! Queen Henriette of England, who owl
ed that province. Maine was for man
years a province of Massachusetts,, an
was admitted as State in 1920.
ALABAMA was SO named by the Ind
ans, and signifies 'Here we rest.
Admitted to the Union in 1920.
MISSOURI is from the Indian wor
muddy, which more properly apple
to the river which flows through i
Admitted as state in 1921.
| ARKANSAS from Kansas, the India
word for " Smoky Water" Its pref
arc, the French word for "bow." At
mitted as State in 1886.
MICHIGAN was called by the nam
given the lake, meaning "fish-weir,
which Yves SO styled from its fancied r,
semblance to a fsh-trap. Admitted 8
State in 1887.
| FLoRIDA.-Ponce de Leon landed o
the coast of Florida on Easter SUNDAY
and called the country in commemors
ton of the day, which was the Pasqu
Florida of the Spaniards, or Feast {
Flowers. Admitted as a State
1845.
TEXAS is the American word for th
Mexican name by which all that Sc,
ton of country was called before it ws
ceded to the United States. Admitte
to the Union in 1845.
| IOWA, OrOWSy ones. AQmlGJeQ
the Union in 1916.
WISCONSIN, wild-rushing channel.
Admitted in 1848.
CALFoRNIA, named by Cortez. Ai
mitted in 1850.
MINNESOTA, "cloudy water" Ai
mitted to the Union in 1858.
OREGON owes it's Indian name to il
principal river. Admitted to the Unio
in 1859.
KANSAS, Indian word for "smok
water" Admitted in 1861.
WEST VIRGINIA, taken from Virgini
and erected into a seperate State an
admitted in 1868.
NEBRASKA admitted to the Union as
State in 1867.
NEVADA, Indian, means white wit
snow, and it is we'll known that noun
famous territory contains peaks covere
with perpetual snow.
Royal Incomes.
The following is the list of royal In
comes given in the German D0hheia
Kalenoler for 1874 The Emperor @
Russia, $3.50, 900 thalers the Sulta
of Turkey 00n 0n0 tha1ers tho Tn,