The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-12-15
Displeasing Attaches
Queer Name Is
Explained
MISS ED. 1T SEEMS
MARRIED MIR. BOY
Later She Tackled On
Family Name to
His

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Ethnologists, astrologers-no, no.
they are not of those who would
worry about questions ike :hat--it s
these people: philolos.sts. senealo-
gists. and many others. are worrying
today because they cannot answer
right OF the reel why the German
captain, who Is persona non grata
to these United States. has a name
that does not sound like German
name. although he has as genuinely
hyphenated a one as Is In existence
OF course. you, as an important
part OF the United States, have been
noticing symptoms OF a decidedly
persona non grata nature about
yourself, and could not determine
how you came 10 feel that way:
your appetite had been good. you
had been sleeping well and soundly.
and yet you would feel this nause-
ating persona feeling coming over
you: finally reading It was Boy
Ed who was TO blame, and then be
Ing glad in the knowledge you were
going TO get him. hyphen and
all. out OF your system.
He WAS being called a name few
men can stand being called a Per
son. The mon grata" means mot
pleasing" II you have not looked II
up and still want to know. But why
the rame7 Why Boyd?
Everybody has heard OF the Ger
man Chancellor. Won Bethmann-FIoll-
veg. He's a hyphenate, but an I'M.
dprstandable one. Evidently a Mr..
Bethmann married a Miss Hollweg
some time or other or vice versa.
But at flrst glance II hardly seems
conceivable 10 think Mr.. Boy mar
rled a Miss Ed. or that a Mr.. Ed
married a Miss Boy. Yet one OF
these things happened TO give this
German captain the hyphenated
name he possesses and make him a
person not pleasing 10 you and
all the rest 81 the United States.
He's not a Turk. although they have
names with hyphens and Eds in EN-.
Here Ia his true story. dug out OF
musty tones In silent libraries, with
tho aid OF kindly professor OF
languages versed In things genoa
logical.
In 1909 there saw the light for the
first time. in Rensburg. Sweden,
ono Christian Marquard Ed. whose
father and mother were Swedish
BY birth. and descended from a long
line Of Swedish ancestry.
Ed. II seems, Is a scandinavian
name. not quite so common in Swe-
den as Smith. Brown, Jones and
Robinson In the United states. but
a common Swedish name, neverthe-
less
Christians parents emigrated 10
Germany when he was a small boy.
They settled in Altoona, which Is In
Schleswi Holstein there's another
hyphen). on the Elbe, not far from
Hamburg. We've all heard OF Ham
burg. whence comes the not proven
statement that within its borders
the first Hamburg steak was con
cocted. But lots or III have not
heard OF Altoona. at least the Ger
man one.
IN Altoona. Christian Marquard Ed
vent 10 school. afterward being ap
prenticed TO a printer. later going
into newspaper work, and becoming
publisher OF a little paper In Ham
burg. He became very German, II
seems, marrying Hamburg girl
name and fame here and elsewhere
unrecorded. Likewise. there is no
record az to how many chlldren
were the result Of the marriage. al
though the objective OF this ny
phenated story is met by the rec
ord that Christian and his wife had
daughter Ida Ed.
Ida, Just plain Ida Ed. without any
hyphen, was born In Bergsdorf' a
little German village not far from
Hamburg. IN 1852. Sha bad amb
lions. did Ida Ed. She was not go
ing TO be an ordinary. commonplace
newspaper person like papa; nothing
like that: she would be really
truly authoress, who would write
novels that would be so filled with
breathless interest "a TO keep you mp
nights. devouring every word until
Won reached the end. This idea
was non grata to papa, who frowned
upon Il: but Ida was not to be de-
MED the artistic career her German
and Swedish heart had set upon. and
against the wishes OF her parents
she took n course IN literature In
Lubbock. which IL on the border limo
between Schleswig Holstein and
Mecklenburs.
Here Ida not only imbibed the
ways and means 10 write novels. but
she lost beg heart 10 Carl 's"N' ~
With al,
who CAM nensstIy Dy uI~ 49,
which the musty TOM,
mentioned prove 10 be a true GER
man name. derived IN the curious
and fascinating way common TO
names from similarly pronounced
yet differently spelled names IN 9th
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