Bisbee daily review., 1910-10-04
FAMOUS PERSOnlGES
 WITH ASSUMED NAMES

Many are the men and women who have become famous under a changed name, while they might have remain ed unknown or practically so. despite talent or ability had they retained their given or baptismai name. It
 is not alone law breakers or law evaders who change their names, of. ten without authority of the court,
 but writers. actors, politicians, men in every walk of life.
 This question was Interestingly treated upon by Judge Vann in New
 York in the case of Smith vs. U. S. Casualty company, under the head the common law right to change one's name. The learned judge goes into history on the subject. touching on the sufiix son and prefixes Of Mac, Fitz and o. He comes to painters. authors and others of ear Her period and finally quotes Walsh's Handbook of Literary Curiosities' as follows:
 Authors and actors know the val ue of a mouth-filling name. Herbert Lythe becomes famous as Maurice Bridget O'Toole charms an audience as Rosa d'Erina, John H. Broadribb becomes Henry Irving. Samuel c. Clemens and Charles R. Browne attract attention under the eccentric masks of Mark Twain and Artemus Ward John Rowlands would never have become a great ex- plorer unless he had first changed his name to Henry NJ. Stanley. James B. Matthews and James B. Taylor might have remained lost imong the mass O magazine contrib ltors but for their cunning in drop ping the James and sanding forth as 5radner Matthews and Bayard Fay or. Would Jacob w. Reid have sue ,eeded as well as whitelaw Reide l While some of these names are merely professional psuedonyms. oth- 1 ITS are adopted as the real name, nd in time became the only name of | he person who assumed it.
 Many other instances of volun- ary change of name, might be ad- ed, but we will mention only two 1ora I,r JarEarc s.aoar.I Nu~r& anJ lis Campaigns, (page 27e) 1t is tated. and the fact is well known. hat Gen. Grants baptismal name 'as Hiram Ulysses, and he bore that ppellation until he was appointed a II adet at West Point Gen. Hamer, -ho nominated him for cadetship. i y some means got his name mixed p with that of his brother He was appointed eas AUlyssss Sid ey Grant" and that name once so corded on the books of the mili- Try academy could not be changed e was baptised into the military ,hool as U. s. Grant and he has Ter since been thus designated mother instance, equally well estab- shed by current history, is that of I resident Cleveland. who had the aptismal name of Stephen G. leveland. After he entered his 'ens he omitted the word Stephen nd assumed the name of Grover leyeland, by which he was known iroughout his distinguished career.
 Out of the groundwork of custom. } shown by the early history Of the ;biect, the common law sprang ana as gradually developed The an- ent custom was for the son to 1opt a sur name at viii, regardless that borne by his father. and the l ractice continued occasionally until |, ie present time, has extended to the ; iven name also. If the insurance l Olicy in question had been issued { nder the same circumstances. tS | eneral Grant or President Cleve- [ md, would 1t have been valid? h. eed, it may well be asked, would it , ave been valid if issued to either of | iose noted men. had it followed the ame given at birth instead of the ne acquired by adoption and by hich they were known while filling ie most exalted positions and will { ? known for all time? There are Ut few decisions directly in point. ] though there are many dicta by ninent judges recognizing an estab- shed rule that a man may change Is name. Christian, surname. or oth. without resort to legal proceed
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