Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-08-03
SMITHS DOMINATE AMERICAN
SOCIETY,"

Y y
SOCIETY.
Society is led throughout the
country North, South, East and
West. by the ancient and honorable
family of smith. as is shown by the
Social Register Leader.
This volume is compendium Of
the names of persons of social prom
inence in twenty American cities
and has been prepared with pains
taking care. II consists OF an al
phabetical arrangement OF $4,000
names, together with the cities
where the persons reside This fur
nishes "A clcw TO many sources Of
information concerning those whose
doings are Of interest to society I'm
the principal cities of the United
States.
or the Smiths there are found TO
be $50 all told. while the Browns.
who number 346. come next in pre-
ferment The Ioneses number 262.
while the Robinsons have l73 ON
the roll of the select elect TO quote
Miss Carolyn Wells The numerical
~ predominant names in New York
are as follows Smith, 1913. Brown
1877; White. Sc; Morgan. "a; Clark
81; Robinson, 81: Taylor, so. and
Miller SO. Boston has only five
Smiths and sixteen Browns. but the
Hub has twenty-five Wiliamses,
rorty-four Peabodys and forty-four
/ Coolidges.
New York has the most Smiths
and 40 per cent Of the Browns.
while Baltimore is a close second
. i'm The possession of the clan Of
Brown The Smiths predominant in
f Philadelphia, with battalion Of
. 1928. although the Biddle family.
which is 30 much a part of the City
/ OF BrothcrlyLove. has seventy-two
members. The Joneses are to he
found everywhere. except i'm Provi-
dence and Oakland Oakland has
nobody at all in society named
Jackson. Baltimore is entitled to
/ have the most Jenkinses present at
any large social function. In Chi
cago the Walkers follow the Smiths
i'm preference. while in Providence
/ the name Aldrich is the open
/ sesame to society Pittsburg has the
most Laughlins The Smiths are at
the fore in st. Louis and St Paul.
and in Minneapolis, the question Of
prestige is tie among the Wash
burns. Winstons and Woodworths.
Summaries of the names which re-
cur i'm the various cities reveal some
/ interesting facts culled from this
/ American Almanach de Gotha. There
are 149 of the family of Adams in
fifteen cities. while the ninety-four
Alexanders are distributed through
seventeen cities. There are thirty
one Amorys. and Boston society has
them all OF the Biddle family be
sides the seventy-two i'm Philadel-
phia which have been mentioned.
there are six i'm New York and i'm
Washington. but they are really
part of the parent stock which -four
ishes in the city of Penn
Five cities only have AppIetons.
of whom there are twenty-one i'm
Boston, two in Philadelphia. two in
ST Paul and one i'm Baltimore. All
of the family of Auchinclose. to the
number of seventeen. have not wan
dered away from New York OF the
thirty-hve Cabots thrtyltwo reside
ina Boston The 1923 of the house OF
Davis are scattered through eighteen
cities. and they are the most numer-
GUS in Washington Nearly every
city or nineteen of the score. have
some of The 1863 Kings
Strange dincrenuations n the
pelling oft names appear throughout
The volume There are 23g of the
family of Clarke and niuety-niue ,i
the name without the terminal "o
Five ways are offered for the spell
ing of what is in effect the same
name as is seen in such titles as
HeaI Bralo. Bcalea Beau and BcaIs
10 is shown ZOO the table that Their.
are forty Reads scveufy-onc Reed
and ,hIr.y-ouo ReIds There ar.