An Ohio lady told me that she knew three young ladies belonging to one family, named severally:
Regina, Florida Geneva, and Missouri Iowa. And that an ill-starred child, born about the time of the first Atlantic cable furor, was threatened with the name of Atalanta Telegrapha Cabelletta!
The cable collapsed, and the child escaped; but a young lady of Columbus, born January 1, 1863, was less fortunate. She was named by her parents in honor of the event of that day, Emancipation Proclamation, and is known by the pet name “Proklio.”
I knew a boy named Chief Justice Marshall; a young man, (greatness was thrust upon him,) named Commodore Perry V——r, and have been told of a little girl named by her novel-loving mother, Lady Helen Mar.
Mrs. C., of Western New York, was, in her girlhood, acquainted with a boy who by no means “rejoiced in the name” of John Jerome Jeremiah Ansegus P. S. Brown McB——e.
A colored woman in Dunkirk named her infant son in honor of two lawyers there: Thomas P. Grosvenor William O. Stevens D——s; and, at an Industrial school in Detroit, there was some years ago a colored boy named Nicholas Evans Esquire Providence United States of America Jefferson Davis B——s.
In Cazenovia there once lived a young lady named Encyclopedia Britannica D——y.
There, too, Messrs. Hyde and Coop lived side by side for several years. Then Mr. Hyde moved out of town, and spoiled that little game.
It was noted as a coincidence when a Mr. Conkrite, of Tecumseh, Mich., sold his dwelling-house and lot to Mrs. Cronkite.
A farmer in Allegany county, N. Y., named his children Wilhelmina Rosalinda, Sobriski Lowanda, Eugertha Emily, Hiram Orlaska, Monterey Maria and Delwin Dacosti. The following are also vouched for as genuine American names: Direxa Polyxany Dodge, Hostalina Hypermnestra Meacham, Keren Habuch Moore and Missouri Arkansas Ward.