The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-09-21
SOME GREAT NAMES.
The Nomenclature of the Three Nhief
Collections of Notable
Americans.

retain their POSITIONS II the MINDS o.
the people and in the history of the
United States are the Pilgrim Fathers,
The signers of the Declaration of hide
pendence and the presidents OF the
first there were Il, of the second IS and
of the third "a up to this time-but how
long this list will be before the end is
reached no man knoweth. OF the first
it is hardly necessary to say that more
were born in this country; of the sec
ond all were born here except eight,
and of the last, we are proud TO say. all
are native-born Americane--for further
particulars OH this point see the Con
stitution of the United,States. Looking
over the list with special reference to
nomenclature, at least christen nomen-
,lature. it is seen that plain Johns lead
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
equalled (siX) by the Samuels, Georges,
Williams and Thomascs among the
signers, and among the presidents he IS
| led bv five Jameses There are two each
Of John, Andrew and William, and
there is but one each of the other
names.
There were 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 APP
peared 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 William 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 showing, with one
among the Pilgrims, two among the
signers and five among the presidents
| two and a half times as many as any
| other. There were no Andrews among
| Pilgrims or signers, but tive are among
| the presidents John, James, William
! 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 Beniamins among the signers and
| one president.
OF the surnames no one among the
| Pilgrims appears among the presidents,
| which means that no name goes through
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names. Among the Pilgrims was a
| Clarke, Williams and Hopkins, which
appear also among the signers, there
being Steph. Hopkins in each. This
| identity of names appears again among
the signers and the presidents, Benja-
min Harrison being the name. 1t
may be remarked that Clarke of tle
| 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,
Harrison, jefferson and Taylor OF the
| Pilgrims not one had middle name or
initial; only three of the signers (Lee,
Richard Henry, and Francis Lightfoot
and Robert Treat Paine), put them
| selves down that way, and only seven of
! the presidents, although Grover Cleve-
land dropped the 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
Undetermined signers did. A list of all
the names shows IS Johns, II Williams,
IL Thomases, ,Jameses and Georges,
Edwards, Richards. Franchises, 4
Samuels 2 (each) Roberts and Ste
phens, and one Isaac, Miles, Christie
pher, Moses, Degory. Gilbert Peter, Jo-
siah. Carter, Charles, Elbridge, Button,
Lyman, Joseph, Philip, Arthus. Lewis,
Caesar, Roger, Matthew, Oliver, Martin.
! Zachary, Willard, Franklin, Ulysses,
| Rutherford. Chester and Grover.
Ten of the signers were born in Mas
sachusetts, and nine in Virginia, five
each in Pennsylvania and Maryland,
| four each in New Jersey, Connecticut
and South Carolina, three in New York,
two in Delaware and one each in Maine
and Rhode Island. OF the foreigners
three were born in Ireland, 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 Frank
lin (born January, 1900, in his list year
and the youngest was Edward Rut-
ledge of South Carolina (born NoveTu-
Der, 1749), in his 2Tth year. The signer
/ who reached the most advanced age
! (96) was Charles Carroll, of Maryland,
: who died November IA, 1882, the last
survivor of the signers. John Adams
! (91) and Thomas Jefferson tS3) died on
4 the same day, July 4, 1896. The first
/ signer to die was John Morton, of Penn
I sylvania who died in April, 1T77, aged
SO. who had given the casting vote IN
favor of the adoption of the Declare
ton. None died under As and three
died at that age. The first to sign was
John Hancock of Massachusetts. and
the last was Thomas Hayward, Jr., OF
South Carolina. OF occupations Of the
signers the lawyers lead with 26. oil
nearly half. Then come eight mer
chants. six farmers. six physicians. two