The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-11-20
ALLITERATIVE NAMES.
Those Of Famous Men and Wom-
on the World ovor.


Looking around the various pursuits
in life, one finds that people with allit-
Grated names have risen to great prom
inence.
Among the men OF letters, for ex-
ample. in early and late days are found:
Charles Churchill the great English
satirist; Christopher Cranch and Daniel
Defoe, the author of Robinson Crusoe;"
Gerald Griffin, the Irish novelist and
dramatist; Sidney Smith, one Of the
founders of the Edinburgh Review;
Thomas Tickell, whose ballad of Collin
and Lucy" spread his fame near and far;
Tom Tusser and William Wallace,
American poet and lawyer; William
Wadsworth, the poet, and William
Wicherly, the Restoration" dramatist;
Michael Mason, the great French dra-
matist; Sir Travers Twiss, the noted
English scientist; William Whewell,
the philosopher; Henry Haggard, who
afterward adopted the name of Rider"
Haggard, Rider being the second name
of the noted author; John Jellett, Of
Trinity college, in Dublin, one of the
ablest mathematicians Of the age;
Thomas Thorpe, the eminent chemist;
Samuel Scudder, the scientist; James
Joule, a great English philosopher;
Max Mueller, the master of Sanskrit;
Seba Smith, a noted American journal
ist; Rossiter Raymond, one of the great
mining engineers of the day; Walt
Whitman, the poet; Barton Booth, the
English tragedian and author OF the
seventeenth century.
Among famous statesmen whose
names have this same charm Of ALTER
alton arc BENJAMIN Beaconsfield, Ben
jamin Brewster, Blanche Bruce, the
whilom colored United States senator;
Ben Butler, Charles Carroll, of Mary
land, the last of the survivors of the
signers of the declaration OF Inde-
pendence; the late David Davis, of Illi-
nois; Dan Dickerson, of Connecticut;
Frederick Frelinghuyson, of New Jer-
sey; Hannibal Hamlin, Bertrand Ba-
rere, the French politician, who was q
member of three distinct national as
semblies; Lucius Lamar, Sir Michael
Morrison, noted Irish judge; William
Window, Richard Russ, a noted states
man; William Writ. who aided in the
prosecution of Aaron Burr.
Among the famous soldiers are:
Giuseppe Garibaldi, Braxton Bragg, the
hero of Shiloh; Chris Carson, or Kit"
the famous scout and trapper; Joseph
johnson, who opposed the Sherman
forces on their march to the sea; Marie
MacMahon, the eminent French mar
shal; Gen. Montgomery Meigs. of the
federal forces; Sam Sturgis, the COM
mander at Wilson's Creek; Thomas
Truxton, the commodore who was never
defeated in battle; Tom Turner, one of
the most prominent American naval Of
ficers.
Among the theological lights are
found: Frederick Farrer. the great
English pulpit orator; William Wight
man, q prominent bishop in the Meth
odist Episcopal church; William Walsh,
archbishop Of Dublin.
The ranks Of artists and sculptors dis
close alliterated names that are famous:
Hubert Herkomer, the English sculp-
tor; Randolph Rodgers, the American
sculptor; Worthington Whittridge, the
American landscapist; Martin Milmore,
the Boston sculptor; Jean Jerichau, the
Danish sculptor.
Celebrated musicians who boast this
peculiarity are: Joseph Joachim. the
violinist; Frederick Ferdinand Flotow,
the composer; Theodore Thomas, the
orchestra leader.
Among famous physicians are found:
Sir Henry Holland, Of Great Britain;
John Jea6erson. the surgeon; Morrell
Mackenzie, the specialist.
Commercial men, too, have the charm.
There il Alexander Agassiz, the wealthy
owner and operator Of the Hecla and
Calumet mines on Lake Superior; La
one Levi, the noted commercial statis-
tician; Potter Palmer. Of hostelry fame.
Women have this lucky charm, but It
is not nearly 20 common with them Is 1t
ia with men. There il Harriet Hosmer,
the sculptor: Teresa Tietjens, the great
est operatic singer Of her day; Lucy Lar
com, tie poetess; Catarina Cognaro, the
celebrated italian beauty; Maria Mo
Ian. the great French vocalist. who be-
came the wife Of Leon Carvalho, the di-
rector Of the Thester Lyric, OF Paris;
Maria Mitchell, noted astronomer;
Emma Eames, the charming singer. and
Frances Folsom. exPresident Cleve-
lands wife. st. Louis Republic.
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