Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1880 — Nicknames and Fame. [ARTICLE]

Nicknames and Fame.

Miss “Mamie” Smith has recently been admitted to the bar of Kentucky and an Indiana paper finds fault with her name. It want* to know how George Wamhngton, Horace Greeley, Charles Sumner, Rufus Choate, Ulysses 0,

Grant, Henry Ward Beecher, Oliver P. Morton and Thomas A. Hendricks wonld have acquired fame if handicapped by pet names, and known to the world as “Dordie” Washington “Hoddie” Gxeeley, “Charlie” Stunner, “Rnfie” Choate, “Lyssie* Grant, “Harrie” Beecher, “Nollie” Morton, and “Tommie” Hendricks.