The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-09-20
SMITHS DOMINATE SOCIETY.

High Social Position.

High Social Position.
Society is led throughout the coun-
try, North South, East and West, by
the ancient and honorable family of
Smith, as is, shown by the Social
Register Locator.
This volume is a compendium of
the names of persons of social prom
inence in twenty American cities and
has been prepared with painstaking
care. 1t consists of an alphabetical
arrangement of $4,000 names, togeth-
er with the cities where the persons
reside. This furnishes clew to
many sources of information concern
ing those whose doings are of inter
est to society in the principal cities
of the United States.
OF the Smiths there are found to
be $50 all told, while the Browns,
who number SAC, come next in pre-
ferment The Joneses number 262,
while the Robinsons have IFS on the
roll of the select elect, to quote Miss
Carolyn Wells. The numerically
predominant names in New York are
as follows: Smith, 1853; Brown, 1877;
White, Sc; Morgan, 81; Clark, 81;
Robinson, 81; Taylor, so, and Miller,
Sc. Boston has only five Smiths and
sixteen Browns, but the Hub has
twenty-five Williamses, forty-four
Peabodys and forty-four Coolidges.
New York has the most Smiths and
forty percent of the Browns, while
Baltimore is close second in the
possession of the clan of Brown.
The Smiths predominant in Philadel-
phia, with battalion of 123, all
though the Biddle family, which is
so much a part of the City of Broth
erly Love, has seventy-two members.
The Joneses are to be found every
where, except in Providence 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 Chicago the Walkers follow the
Smiths in preference, while in Prov
idence 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 a tie among the Wash
burns, Winstons and Woodworths.
Summaries of the names which re-
cur in the various cities reveal some
interesting facts culled from this
American Almanach de @Otha There
are 149 of the family of Adams in 10
cities, while the "a AleXanders are
distributed through IL cities There
are 81 Amorys, and Boston society
has them all. OF the Biddle family,
besides the 70 in Philadelphia which
have been mentioned, there are six in
New York and in Washington, but
they are really part Of the parent
stock which fourishes in the city of
Penn.
Five cities only have Appletons, Of
whom there are q in Boston, IL in
New York, two in Philadelphia, two in
ST. Paul and one in Baltimore. All
of the family of Auchincloss, to the
number of II, have not wandered
away from New York OF the S5
Cabots 80 reside in Boston. The 2l3
of the house of Davis are scattered
through Is cities, and they are the
most numerous in Washington Near
ly every city, or nineteen OF the
score, have some of the 1863 Kings
Strange differentiations in the
spelling of names appear throughout
the volume. There are 239 Of the
family Of Clarke, and ninety-nine of
the name without the terminal &c. -
Five ways are offered for the spell
ing of what is in effect the same
name as is seen in such titles as
Beal, Beale, Beales, Beall and Beals
It is shown in the tables that there
are forty Reads, seyenty-one Reeds
and thirty-one Reds. There are
'ffty-fve who bear the name of Rob
bins and thirty-fve who leave out
one "b" and pronounce their name
the same way. Forty-two are called
Sturgis and thirty-two Sturges.-New
York Herald.