Evening journal., 1899-10-10
SOME GREAT NAMES.
The Nomenclature OF the Three Chief
Collections OF Notable
Americans.


ing collections Of men who viii 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 indie
pendence and the presidents. OF the
first there were Al. of the second SO and
of the third "a up to this time-but how
long this list will be before the end is
reached no man lSnoweth OF the first
II is hardly necessary to say that none
were born ia 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 Americana for further
particulars on this point see the Con-
stitution of the United States. Looking
over the list with special reference to
nomenclature. at least christen nomen-
clature, il 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 Thomases among the
signers. and among the presidents he is
led by 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 a 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 two 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 Benjamins 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
the entire trilogy of great nationa'
names. Among the Pilgrims was Z
/ Clarke, Williams and Hopkins, which
appear also among the signers, there
being a Steph. Hopkins in each. Thii
/ identity of names appears again among
the signers and the presidents, Benja
min Harrison being the name. ]
may be remarked that Clarke of tn
Pngrims spelled his name with an c
while the signer dropped it. or TIN
na.ues appearing among the signers an'
| the presidents, thereare two, Adamses
Harrison, jefferson and Taylor. OF th'
| Pilgrims not one had a middle name OF
initial: only three of the signers (Lee
Richard Henry, and Francis Lightfoo
and Robert Treat Paine), put them
selves down that way, and only seven o
the presidents, although Grover Cleve
land dropped the Stephen to which b.
| fyas entitled, and used his middle name
| John Quincy Adams was the only one 4
write his name out in full, as all tn
niddle-named signers did. A list of al
tIre.names shows IS Johns, II Williams
ii Ihomases, s Jameses and Georges
7 Edwards, Richards, Franchises,
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
Znchary, Anllard, Franklin, Ulysses
II rutherford, Chester and Grover.
l Ten of the signers were born in Mas
i sachusetts, and nine in Virginia, iiy
Il each in Pennsylvania and Maryland
4 fosrr each in New Jersey, Connection
and South Carolina, three in New Norl
two in Delaware and one each in Main
, and Rhode Island. OF the foreigner
n three were born in ireland, two each ]
Il GllUlAnu anu DiNNAunA anu eAAN 80 ff~--N
so that Great Britain was fairly we
represented on that immortal pape
| The oldest signer was Benjamin franl
lin (born January, 1900, in his list yea
and the youngest was Edward Ru
4 ledge Of South Carolina (born Noven
ber, r749), in his 27th year. The signe
who reached the most advanced ae
1907 was Charles Carroll Of Marylan'
, who died November Il, 1882, the las
; survivor of the signers. John Adam
/, (9l) and Thomas jefferson (ss) died q
! the same day, July 4. 1926. The fir
z sign er to die was John Morton, Of PEN
= sylnania, who died in April, 1777, age
SO. zgho had given the casting vote
= favor of the adoption of the Declar
ton. None died under 45 and thr'
J died at that age. The first to sign W
John Hancock, of Massachusetts,. an
r the last was Thomas Hayward, Jr.,
South Carolina. OF occupations Of d
signe s the lawyers lead with 26,
nearh half Then come eight me
vi chonfa. six farmers six DhVsicianS, tV