The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-17
NAMES OF COUNTIES.
HOW THEY HAVE BEEN CHOSEN
IN THE STATES
The Presidents, Revolutionary He
roes, Great Statesmen and English
Celebrities Remembered-A Curious
ApsIvsis NJ the Ijat If Na,,as

| IOe6s 0TedL Statesmen ana English
Celebrities Remembered-A Curious
Analysis of the List of Names.
From the ST. Louis Republic.
On July 81, 1889. the SO states and eight
territories which compose the United States
of America were subdivided into 2,45s
parts known as counties and parishes, each
perfect republic within itself, distributed
among the states and territories as follows:
Alabama, &c; Arkansas, 70; California, 50;
Colorado, AZ; Connecticut, 8; Delaware, g.;
Florida, As; Georgia, 1877; Illinois, 1O2;
Indiana, 90; Iowa, 80; Kansas, 106; Ken
lucky; 11s; louisiana, So; Maine, 16; Mary
land, pa Massachusetts,, IA; Michigan, 81;
Minnesota, 80; Mississippi, "A; Missouri. 124
Nebraska, 81; Nevada. IA; New Hamp-
shire, 10; New Jersey, 81; New York, 60;
North Carolina, 90; Ohio, IS; Oregon, 80;
Pennsylvania, 67; Rhode Island, 5; South
Carolina, 81 Tennessee, 90; Texas, 191 /;
Vermont, IA; Virginia, 101; West Virginia,
| So; Wisconsin, IS: Arizona. 10: Dakota, Sc;
Idaho. 10; Montana, 16; New Mexico, IA;
Utah, "a; Washington, 81; Wyoming, 10
Total, 2,45s.
OF these 2,45S names 81 begin with the
| d; SO with E; 80 with F.; 112 with G.; 40
with Fl. Is used as the initial letter but
81 times; j SO, K SO, L 161, NJ 256, N 50,
o 6S, P LA and Q but 4, viz, Quitman
county, Georgia, Queen Anne's county,
| Maryland, Quitman again in Mississippi
and Queens in New York. r commences
the names of 80 counties S 227, T IS, U %,
V %. w SO. x is left entirely out: Y comes
in 20 time and twice, both in Texas.
NAMED FOR PRESIDENTS.
| OF the total number POS are named for
| presidents. The illustrious name of Wash
ington has been applied thirty times, each
| of the following states having honored the
| father of his country; Alabama, Arkansas,
Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indl-
ana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine.
Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri,
| Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island.
Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Wis
/ consin, Idaho, Iowa and Utah,
The Adamses, father and son, were hardly
as popular as the first president if county
nomenclature is an index, there being but
nine Adams counties In the Union up to
| date. jefferson and jackson are running a
| pretty even race; the former has 90 and the
| latter 81 counties named in his honor.
| Madison, the fourth President, left good
record for coming generations to peruse, and
| his name to Is counties in as many differe 1t
states. Monroe comes in a good second
with his name across II of our miniature
republics.
Van Buren,, "Little Van," must be con-
tent for the present at least with counties
named in his honor in Arkansas, Iowa,
| Michigan and Tennessee.
Harrison, the grandfather of his grand
| sou, has had his name used times, and no
| doubt some of the new states will honor the
grandson by adding few more Harrison
1 N<k h. - NaL-a
| Blaine few years ago. Tyler has only
struck the public pulse twice; Texas and
| West Virginia named counties for him.
| Taylor went him five better, and is remem-
! bered in the states of Florida, Georgia.
Iowa, Kentucky, Texas, West Virginia and
| Wisconsin.
Rather than see Fillmore left out entire
| ly Minnesota and Nebraska named counties
for him. Pierce and Buchanan counties
are almost as scarce, each occurring but
three times, the former in the States of
| Georgia, Nebraska and Wisconsin and the
latter in Iowa, Missouri and Virginia
The Iincolns, the President and the old
hero of revolutionary times, have l6 couu-
| ties bearing their names. In this case the
honor is unity bestowed, as it would be
next to impossible to tell for which the va
rious counties were named. In cases where
the name has been given to counties erected
since 1850 it is natural to suppose that they
were so called in honor of the President
To look up each county separately and find
the date of its organization would involve
more research nan the fact would be worth
when proven.
OF johnson counties there are II, but as
great many, half at least Of them were Or
ganizsd before Andrew johnson was ever
heard tell of, 1t is safe to suppose that but
few of them were named to perpetuate the
memory of the ex-president
There is an even dozen Grant counties
about eight of which were bestowed in
honor of Gen. U. S. Grant.
Hayes name will go laundering down
the bowling alley of the great-to come
stretched across one little square on the map
| of Nebraska.
Since the election and assassination Of
Garfield, counties have been erected to his
memory in the States of Colorado, Kansas.
Nebraska and in the territories of Utah and
| Washington.
Arthur is The only one of the Presidents
| who has not had at least one county erected
and named in his memory.
Cleveland has had a county named for
him in Arkansas. There is another Cleve-
land county in North Carolina, butt was
county years before the man of destiny
| surprised the booK-makers in the great free
| for-all of 1884.
One thousand one hundred and twenty
four or nearly one-haIf of the whole num-
Der OF cOunCeS are named Tor statesmen
of local, national or international reputa-
| ton.
Even in this matter of naming counties
one cannot help but notice the intense love
the southern people show for their country
and its great statesman.
Alabama named AZ counties in honor of
revolutionary heroes and local celebrities;
California and Massachusetts but one each !;
Maine, five; New Hampshire, three; New
Jersey. four; and Michigan, "a
Kentucky comes highest in this list with
| 116 county memorials; Texas good second
with Ill; Georgia third with 49, and Ten
nessee fourth best with 49, The Califor-
mans could find room and material for SO
counties, but could apply the name of but
one great man, that of Humboldt. New
York named % counties in memory of pa
| triots, soldiers statesmen and scholars:
North Caroliana, 81; Oregon, 10; Virginia,
40; Connecticut, 2; Mississippi, 46, Vermont,
4; Rhode Island. |; Pennsylvania, 81 Mis-
souri,, 70; Iowa. 90; Illinois, 70; Indiana, rs.
and Minnesota, IS.
| AFTER STATESMEN.
OF the great statesman who never be-
came President, Franklin seems to have
been the most popular, and in consequence
he has more counties named i'll his honor
than any man, living or dead, except