Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-07
Why is a Boy-Ed9 >

why IS q Boy-Ed?
Ethnoloeists, astrologers-no, no, they
are not of those who would worry about
| questions like that-it's these people
pnlloiogists, genealogists, and many
others, are worrying today because they
cannot answer right off the reel why the
German captain, who is persona non
| grata to these United States, has a name
mat does not sound like German name,
although he has as genuinely hyphenated
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 to feel that
way; your appetite had been good YOU
had been sleeping well and soundly, and
yet you would feel this nauseating per-
| soma feeling coming over you; finally
reading 1t was Boy-Ed who was to
blame. and then being glad in the knowl-
edge you were going to get from him,
hyphen and all. out of your system.
He was being called name few men
can stand being called; a Person. The
mon grata" means mot pleasing" If
you have not looked 1t up and still want
to know. But why the name? why
Boy-1ld?
Everybody has heard of the German
Chancellor, Won Bethmann- Holweg He's
hyphenate, but an understandable one.
Evidently n Mr.. Bethmann married q
Miss Hollweg some time or other, or vice
versa. But at first glance 1t hardly seems
conceivable to think n MIR Boy married
Miss Ed, or that n Mr. Ed married q
Miss Boy. Yet one of these things hap
pened to give this German captain the
hyphenated name he possesses and make
him person not pleasing" to you and
all the rest of the United States He's
not Turk, although they have names
with hyphens and Eds in 'em.
Here is his true story, dug out of musty
tones in silent libraries, with the aid of n
kindly professor of languages versed in
things genealogical
HAD EARLY START.
In 1909 there saw the light for the first
time. in Rensburg, Sweden, one Christian
Marquard Ed whose father and mother
We're Swedish by birth, and descended
from a long line of Swedish ancestry.
Ed, 1t seems, is a Scandinavian name,
not quite so common in Sweden as Smith,
Brown, Jones and Robinson in the United
States, but common Swedish name,
nevertheless
Christians parents emigrated to Ger
many when he was a small boy. They set
tied in Altoona, which is in Schleswig-
Holstein (there's another hyphen). on the
Elbe, not far from Hamburg. We've all
heard of Hamburg, whence comes the
not proven statement that within its
borders the first Hamburg steak was con-
cocted. But lots of us have not heard q:
Altoona, at least the German one.
In Altoona, Christian Marquard Ed went
to school, afterward being apprenticed to
a printer, later going into newspape:
work, and becoming publisher of little
paper in Hamburg. He became very Ger.
man, 1t seems marrying "A Hamburg girl
name and fame here and elsewhere un-
recorded. Likewise, there is no record as
to how many children were the result 81
the marriage, although the objective o:
this hyphenated story Is met by the rec
ord that Christian and his wife had a
daughter, Ida Ed.
Ida, just plain Ida Ed, without any hy-
phen, was born in Bergsdorf, little
German village not far from Hamburg, in