The evening times., 1899-08-11
SOME NOTABLE NAMES.

SOME NOTABLE NAMES.
| Nomenclature of the Three Chief
Collections OF Great Americans.
From the New York SUM-
| Whatever may happen, the three leading
collections Of men who will always retain
| their positions in the minds of the people
| and in the history of the United States are
| the Pilgrim Fathers. the signers of the
Declaration OF Independence, and the Pres
| idents. OF the first there were forty -one,
| of the second ffty-six, and of the third
twenty-fo up TO this time-but how long
| this list viii be before the end is reached
| no man knoweth. OF the first IL Is hardly
| necessary to say that none was born In
| this country; of the second all were born
here except eight, and of the last, we are
proud to say, all are native-born Ameri-
| cans-for further particulars on this point
| see the Constitution of the United States.
| Looking over the lists with special refer
| ence to nomenclature, at least christen
| nomenclatures, it is seen that plain John
| leads all the others, with ten OF him among
| the Pilgrims, six among the signers, and
two among the Presidents, and>these- two
are father and son (Adams). John easily
leads the Pilgrims, but he Is requaled (six)
by the Samuels, Georges, Williams and
Thomases among the signeFs, and among
the Presidents he is led by five Jameses
| There are two each of John, Andrew and
William, and there there is but one each
OF the other names.
| There We're six pilgrims bearing the
name OF Edward, second in number to
John, but he had fallen away to one among
the signers and has not yet appeared in the
| Presidential list. Thomas, William and
| Richard appear four times each among the
Pilgrims, gain to six each for
William and Thomas among the
| signers, drop to two for Richard, and VIII
liam appears twice among the Presidents,
Thomas once and Richard not at all. There
were two Franchises among the Pilgrims
three among the signers and none among
| the Presidents. James makes good show
ing with one OF him among the Pilgrims,
two among the signers, and FIVE among the
Presidents-two and half times as many
as any other. There were no Andrews
among Pilgrims or signers. but two are
among the Presidents. John James, Will
liam and Thomas are the only names rep
resented in all the lists There were two
Roberts among the signers, but none
among the others. There were three Benz
amins among the signers, and one Presi-
dent.
OF the surnames not one among the Pill
grims appears among the Presidents, which
tire triology of great national names.
Among the Pilgrims was Clarke, Will
liams, and Hopkins, which appear also
among the signers, there being a Steph.
Hopkins in each. This identity of names
appears again among the signers and the
Presidents, Benjamin Harrison being the
name. 1t may be remarked that the Clarke
of the Pilgrims spelled his name with an
e, while the signer dropped it. OF the
names appearing among the signers and
the Presidents, there are two Adamses,
Harrisons. Jeffersons and Taylors or the
Pilgrims not one had a middle name or
initial; only three of the signers
(Lee, Richard Henry and Francis
Lightfoot and Robert Treat Paine)
put themselves down that way,
and only seven of the Presidents,
Stephen to which he was entitled and used
his middle name. John Quincy Adams was
the only one to write his name out in full
as all the middle named signers did
list of all the names shows IS Johns. y
Williams, II Thomases. s Jameses and
Georges, Edwards, Richards. 3
Franchises, samuels, (each)
Isaac Miles, Christopher, Moses. Deg
ory, Gilbert. Peter. Josiah. Carter, Charles.
Elbridge, Button, Lyman, Joseph, Philip,
Arthur, Lewis, Caesar, Roger, Matthew,
Oliver, Martin, Zachary, Millard, Franklin
Ulysses, Rutherford. Chester. and Grover
Ten of the signers were born in Massa-
chusetts, nine in Virginia, five each in
Pennsylvania and Maryland, four each in
New Jersey, Connecticut, and South Caro-
/ lima, three in New York, two in, Delaware
and one each in Maine and Rhode Island.
OF the foreigners three were born in Ire
land. two each in England and Scotland,
and one in Wales, so that Great Britain was
fairly well represented on that immortal
paper. The oldest signer. was Benjamin
Franklin tborn January. 1909. in, his sew
enty-first year. and the youngest was Ed
ward Rutledge, of South Carolina (born
November, 1749l, in his twenty-seyenth
year. The Signer who reached the most ad-
vanced age tninety-six) was Charles Car
roll, OF Maryland. who died November Ia,
1882, the last survivor of the signers John
Adams (ninety-one), and Thomas jefferson
(eighty-three) died on the same day, july
4. 1926. The first signer to die was John
Morton, of Pennsylvania, who died In April,
17T7, aged ffty-three. who had given the
! casting vote in favor of the adoption of
the Declaration. None died under forty
five, and three died at that age The first
to sign was John Hancock, of Massachu-
setts and the last was Thomas Hayward
jr.. of South Carolina. OF occupations of the
signers the lawyers lead with twenty-six
! or nearly half. Then come eight merchants
six farmers six physicians. two soldiers
two statesmen, and a minister printer,
sailor, shoemaker. and pianter-which is
the same thing as farmer. Only Mr. Brax-
ton, of Newington. Va. was probably lit
tie vain and preferred planter to farmer
Not so however, Benjamin Franklin. print
er, and Roger Sherman, shoemaker.
Mr. Thomas Nelson. IT.. of York. Va.
and Mr. William Williams, of Lebanon,
Conn, were the only two signers to go
on record as statesmen. Thomas Jefferson
was not statesman; he was merely law
yer.