Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1894 — Vulgar Origin. [ARTICLE]

Vulgar Origin.

The etymologist deals a blow to sentiment by showing that the mountain from which the Kearsarge took her name was originally known as Hezekiah Sargent’s Mountain, from which the slovenly speech of the natives evolved Kiah Sarge, then Kearsarge. i