The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-03-11
FAMOUS MN RECALLED
CITIZENS WHO BEAR DIS
TINGUISHED NAMES
DIRECTORY FULL OF THEM
Every Presidential Family From
Washington Down to Mckinley
Is RePresented-OtherI Illus
triOus PersOnageS.

Ills pleasant, sure, TO see ones name
in print.
a books a book, although there's nothing
in t."
One only needs to casually examine the
city directory to receive fresh, If not
quaint, emphasis to the old conumdrum:
Whats in a name?"
While the guide to the names of st.
Pauls residents contains many exceed
tngly queer expectations under which peo-
pie stagger along through life, cognomens
just as singular and suggestive of
strange personalities as any to be found
IN the most romantic novels of the past
or present, are often met with. What
strikes the searching student most forci-
bly,, however, is the large number of men
in st. Paul who are bearers of great
names-titles to immortality-nameA
familiar as household words.
Livery presidential family name is rep"
resented from Washington to Mckinley.
There are seven who are known by the
name horne by the father of his Coun-
try, none are, however, called George
though one is called after his brother
Lawrence. There are three John Adams
"a janitor, a labcrer and a moulder-
and two John Quincy Adams in a total
of about ninety who bear the name of
the first Biblical man and the second
president. there are fifteen JefferSOnS
and three Of them are called Thomas
the same as the author OF the DecIara-
ton Of independence. Two of them in
the saloon business and one is a truck
owner. There are ten MadisonS OF
the dozen MOnrOes, there is no James
he who promulgated the famous doc
trine." OF Van Burens there is only one
John Tyler is represented among the
thirteen Tylers in the city. There are
three Folks. The TaylorS number about
$50, and while there is no Zachary,
there is Zenas. OF the thirty-two HAIR
risOns there is one William Henry, a
teamster, but no Benjamin. OF the sixty
Plerces there are two Franks without
the lin " There are four Fillmores. but
no Willard. The Buchanans number
four, but there is no James. There are
ten LincOlns but no Abraham. The
Grants number over fifty, with two
Freds, but no u. S.
There are over sixteen hundred john
sons, fifty-four Andrews, but twenty
four with second name. One Andrew
is a tailor. same calling as that of the
president in his early life The other
president whose name only varied by
the use Of the letter "a has over one
hundred Representatives in the city. four
of them Andrews two janitors and two
lahOrers OF the Hayes there are forty
Two There is only enc Garfield, bat ten
Arthurs. The Clevelands numper two.
and the McKinleys four, John, Thomas
Belle and Bridget
There are seven Rryans in the city, but
no ". J. There are three Christs in our
city whose calling is of the humber
sort, besides two Christmaps Of>Chris-
tians there are a dozen or more not to
speak of scores of Chrstensens. Chris
tOphers, ChristOphels, Christophersons
and Christies
Turing to another name which Bos-
tonese Christians of the Concord school
reverence almost as much, we find a
Plato, who works, instead of talks. for
q livelihood. There are Alcotts and En-
erSOns too. and also a Homer. There
is no Virgil, but his place is taken by an
Angelo, a son of Italy, but not a painter,
architect and sculptor, like the great
Michael. There are over one hundred
Sullivans, three of them John L., nine
FitzsimmOns', five Corhetts and one
Thomas Sharkey.
The immortal bard Shakespeare has no
namesake here, but the man who wrote
the plays, according to the authority of
others than the celebrated Donnelly, has
eighteen of his name-Bacon-enroll as
residents of our city, exclusive of one
Peter Bakken.
Erin's sweet singer, Moore, has over
name, but the nearest to Thomas is Ter
renee. The Scottish bard has his name
sakes too, and three of them have the
given name of Robert. There are eighty
Burkess, and two of them are Edmund
one law editor, and the other clerk
There are over two hundred Thomp-
sons, exclusive Of many Thomsons and
ThOmsens. And there is one BENJAMIN
among the ThompSons, but whether he
is related to Count Rumford'' or not ia
unknown. There is one George H
Thomas among the $50 Thomases in the
city. He is not a general in the army
but railroad clerk
Among the twenty Shermans there is
Jchn, and there is also a John Tyndell.
but it is not known whether he is a de-
scendant of his famous British name
sake. Our John works for the street car
company. Charles Sumner is a railroad
clerk. Five persons bear the name of
Beecher, but none of them is a preacher.
them is John H., the same as the famous
bishop, who founded the Chautauona
educational movement. Our ]. H is a
Jantor. 9
There are eight Greeleys, but no Hor-
ace. OF the thirty-seven Benefits there
is no James Gordon, but one Horace
Among the twelve Raymonds there is one
bearing the given name of the great
editor of the New York Times The only
editor among the st. Paul Raymonds is
Nathaniel There is no Charles A nor
Paul among the four good representa-
tives of the Dana name
Thirteen Booths reside in the CITY in
Guiding one Edwin. There are also three
days of the week: Sunde Mundy and
Frieda.
The Smiths number about 500. There are
eleven plain Johns and twenty-five with
an initial following John There are
eight Josephs, and none of them is a
Mormon as far as known. There is one