The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-05-06
.FANC|ES IN C0GN0MENS,
People with Fancies for Names
Other Than the Ones They
Inherited.
Foreign Born Citizens Apt tt
Americanize the Unpronounce-
able Applications.
Few Changes in the Rural Districts-Meth-
DDS of the Transaction-Lewis and
Clark the Fayorites.

Il is not hard for a man to change his
name, The Code of Civil Procedure tells
how it can be done, and many men take
advantage of the code every year. BY law |
it is required that every change OF name
shall be filed in the Office of the county
clerk of the county where the man who
changes his name resides, and that it shall
be filed by tho county clerk with the secre-
tary of state says the New York Sun, and
that the secretary of state shall print it IN
the session laws. There is an appendix TO
the session laws which contains every
change of name. This is done 80 that
everybody may be informed OF all author
lied changes of names. man is RESPONSE
BILE for any name that he signs, but 1t
would be hard to keep track of mans
authorized names if they were not filed III
some public way and collected annually.
The county clerks do the reporting to the
secretary of state, except in New YORK,
where Michael r. DAILY, clerk of the city |
court, and Nathaniel JARVIS, dr., VINO was |
clerk of the court of common pleas |
handed in the last printed batch OF changed !
names.
The last report contains large number
of changes. Many of them are in the way |
of Americanizing foreign names. Many |
unpronounceable names from Poland, Hun
gary, Austria and Russia, become changed
in way that Americans ana English,
speaking people can pronounce them and
understand them. Almost all the changes
are in foreign names, though there are
other changes which come through adop-
ton, and to comply with testamentary re-
quest and like causes.
Possibly because there are not SO many
there are not SO many changes OF names
there. In the last report the only changes
outside of New York and Brooklyn were
one change in Otsego county. one IN Chau-
tauqua, one in Yates and one IN jefferson SOL
Two of the changes were OF women. The
Otsepo change was where George We're Ho-
bart .Philpott dropped the ''Philpott'' and
the hyphen.
New York furnishes three-fourths of the
changes and Brooklyn all the others, with
the exception of the four given above. The
total number of changes in the last report
was l12. Brooklyn had eighteen of these.
One of these is an example of man length
ening instead of oondenslng his name:
Julius A. Magnussen became julius sc Albert
changed the ''h'' to "k.'' Halvor Ruud
dropped the four dots over his name and
became Henry Rudh. Louis j. Heydt be-
came Louis J. Hoyt. William Edward
Mayer became William Edward Mayor, and
the rest of his family changed their names
with him. Godfrey OConnor dropped the
"tp' and the apostrophe. William John
Henry Schroeder dropped his two middle
names and became simply William Schroe-
der, Jr. Michael A. Mccarthy Is one OF the
few cases where a man changed his Chris
changed the Michael A. to Henry. Robert
]. g. Santos dropped the Santos and be-
came Robert Jacinto Geilhard. His wife
changed her name at the same time. John
G. ARIZONA did not seem to like either his
first name or his last name and become
Frank G. Osborn. Three gentlemen
named Coughlan changed their names to
Conklin.
These specimen changes are few and sim
pie compared with the changes in New
York. Several of the New York changes
come by whole families. Samuel Dzialyn-
ski would not be recognized in the place he
came from by the name of Samuel Lewis.
Nicolai Johan Abelson Americanized his
name to Michael John Holland. The whole
Kadinsli family changed its name to IA
dane. The first names were not changed.
Eleven Cohens changed their names to
Clark. Louis Cohen changed his name to
SPAIN, A month after Samuel Dzialynskl
changed his name to Lewis, three others of
the Dz.alynskis, Lewis, Simon and Charles,
also changed their names to Lewis. The
Schulmeier family became Sherman. Louis
and Caroline Oppenheim followed
the example Of the Dzialinskis and
also changed their names to Lewis.
Lewis and Clark, in fact, seem to be
Van Buren, Holme became William Holme
Van Buren,. Ernesto Agramonte Y. Simoni
extended his name to Ignacio Ernesto Agra
monte Y. Simoni. On tho other hand John
Baptiste Teodor Bernard Tondury dropped
the last name, the first two, and changed
around the other two. He is now Bernard
Teodor, an entire reconstruction. William
Kaupferschmidt translated his name into
English and is now William Coppersmith.
Similar changes are Pinkusky to Pinkus and
Witkowsky to White, and Koch to Cook
Leon Goldiinger was not satisfied with Gold
finger for surname and kept it for his
middle name. He is now Leon Goldfnsel
Levy.
Only one woman had her nam,
changed in the city court outside of TIN
Meserole, who became Cora Hoibrook.
The court of common pleas did large
business than even the city court. One O
the changes i'll the court of common plea
was that of Walter II. Shupe to Fathe
Columbia. He is the man who undertoo
to run cheap steamboat up and down til
Hudson river and started i'll the publ
benefactor business. The court of commo
pleas changed names III much the same wa
as the city court. Another Cohen ther
became Clark; Christian Ferdlnan
George Augustus Post became Georg
Browne Post, Jr. John Frederick Adam
Clausnitzger transposed the Clausnitzge
and the Adams. So did his wife and hi
son. The Gambitsky family became Bern
hard, and Max Klnkowstein became Ma
H. King. Leon Sudan Rosenweig simplitie
his name to Albert j. Leon. MORT
Fuchs dropped the &c" and becam
Moritz Fuhs. Otto H. Doetsch becam
Otto II. Dage. Lambert A. ]. Muller wa
not satisfied with the number of names ths
he had, and added Thym, becoming Lam
bert A. J. Muller-Thym. Catherine aol
trude Phelan did not like Catherine for
FIRST name, so she dropped it, but recon
pensed herself with few additions, bt
coming Gertrude Phelan De la Men. Solt
mon Hirshberg added Schiff to his mann
Mrs. Lillian Ii. Katzenstein became lillia
X. Custiss. Thomas Wesley Allsheske
became Thomas Wesley Sherwood.
Alexander Finkelstein. added to his nam
Manrevo. He is now b. Alexander Finke
stein Manrevo. John Rouschek BEGAN
Weazel Trouschek. Some Scandinavia
took tho simplest change OF all. Instead {
Sven s;vcnson he become Sven S. Smitl
Frederick Tumey became Frederick Sesrle
Frederik hermann Hunaeus changed Ii
last name to Hungus. The only chang
Joseph Meadelson made was to drop tt
.'h'' OFT of the Ecndelsohn.